The Government Accountability Office’s (“GAO”) role in reviewing bid protests is to ensure that statutory requirements for full and open ...

In a source selection for a task order for engineering support services under the Navy’s Seaport-e Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quanti...

In a recent case at the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals, the Board reasserted that a contractor may appeal a government claim without ...

In two recent cases, one before the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (“CBCA”) and the other at the Federal Circuit, the contractors eit...

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals recently dismissed a claim on a default termination of a Department of State contract for construc...

In an interesting Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals case, the Board sustained a contractor’s claim for $962,020 for increased scop...

The Federal Circuit Court, never having previously had a standard for evaluating disparate evaluation claims in bid protests, adopted the...

The following forums have jurisdiction to consider bid protests: Agency: jurisdiction provided by Executive Order 12979 and Federal Acqui...

Recently, a contractor who had submitted a claim to its contracting officer, made a fatal procedural mistake when asking the Civilian Boa...

As used in Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) 52.233-1 (Disputes), a claim is a “ a written demand or written assertion by one of the...

After a contract has been terminated for default, Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) 49.402-6 permits the agency to repurchase the sa...

The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) recently ruled that the General Services Administration’s (“GSA”) use of a highest-technical...

The Court of Federal Claims recently held that it could not consider a post-award bid protest of a Contractor Performance Assessment Repo...

This blog has frequently explained an occasional protest-winning situation where an offeror engages in “bait and switch” in its proposal....

A recent court case reconfirmed that neither a Contracting Officer’s Representative (“COR”) nor a head of an agency has lawful authority ...

The Federal Government in Fiscal Year 2019 recovered more than $3 billion in Civil False Claims Act settlements and judgments. This inclu...

This blog has frequently reported on the form and certification required for a claim under the Contract Disputes Act. See “No Magic Words...

A recent GAO decision on a protest that alleged that the agency improperly released the protester’s proprietary information is a case stu...

The Court of Federal Claims recently held that when your attorney receives a Contracting Officer’s (“CO”) final decision under the Contra...

A recent Navy contract modification of a weapon scope is an example of a classic out of scope modification that will be reviewed by the G...