For as long as this writer can remember, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has hewed to a hard and fast rule about amendments...
A recent blog identified “Six Recurring Agency Mistakes in Discussions.” One of the frequently repeated mistakes (conducting unequal...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has considered numerous protests alleging that an offeror’s bid was “unbalanced.” Only a...
Two recent cases at the Small Business Administration Office of Hearings and Appeals (“OHA”) address affiliation of companies based on...
Most small (and even some large) businesses don’t realize that it is to appeal a denied claim to either the Armed Services Board of...
The Acting Secretary of the Army recently issued Army Directive 2016-16, “Changing Management Behavior: Every Dollar Counts,” April 15,...
A recent Armed Services Board decision demonstrates how important it is for the Government to respond to contractor-raised issues in a...
One important aspect of the government’s right to default terminate a contract is if the contractor refuses to perform, or unequivocally...
The Government wants have its cake and eat it too—by conducting competitions under the General Services Administration (“GSA”) Multiple...
This blog has frequently explained that generally, the government can only be bound contractually by a person with actual authority,...
10 U.S.C. § 2304 and 41 U.S.C. 3301 require, with certain limited exceptions that contracting officers promote and provide for full and...
My book, “100 Worst Mistakes in Government Contracting” (Nat’l. Contr. Mgt. Assn. 2008) by Richard D. Lieberman and Jason D. Morgan,...
One of best movies in the 1990s was “Fried Green Tomatoes,” a story about a depression era café named The Whistle Stop in a little town...
A final decision on a claim by a contracting officer is a jurisdictional requirement for the Court of Federal Claims or a Board of...
The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) is required to report to Congress annually in reports known as the “Annual Report on Bid...
In a recent Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) case, the protester alleged “bait and switch” tactics, but the GAO denied the...
A previous blog discussed “Missing Deadlines in Contract Administration and Claims.” March 3, 2016. As explained therein, the...
The Small Business Administration (“SBA”) adjudicates size protests, typically where one company protests that another company is not...
One of the fundamental principles in the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) size regulations is that in determining a company’s size,...
The official public medium for providing notice of contracting actions by federal agencies is the FedBizOpps.gov website, which has been...
