Environmental Safety Consultants, Inc. (“ESCI”) had a contract with the Navy to perform services. ESCI submitted to the payment office a...

The timeliness rules for filing protests at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) (other than protests of a solicitation) requires...

This article is the second in a series about mistakes in missing deadlines. The first covered deadlines in protests, and this article...

During the Civil War, at the famous Andersonville Prison, on the inside of the stockade and twenty feet from it, there was a deadline...

You are a construction company that receives a contract to modernize the Internal Revenue Service center. Among other things, the...

In two recent bid protest cases, the Government has sought to have its cake and eat it too—by conducting competitions under the General...

Request for Quotations (“RFQs”) may create a “no-win” situation for a government contractor. That is particularly true when the...

One of the three the three basic requirements for a contract to be enforceable is consideration, which usually means a promise to pay...

A recent case at the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals appears to demonstrate that some contract administrators never seem to...

To protest or not to protest; that is the question; Whether ‘tis smarter in business to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous...