The U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC) recently addressed the scope of its jurisdiction over Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements in the case of Telesto Group, LLC v. United States, No. 1:24-cv-01784. The case...more
6/9/2025
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The Trump Administration is in the midst of reviewing prior administrations' spending priorities and federal government contracts and has begun announcing a variety of actions to suspend and/or terminate pending and awarded...more
2/6/2025
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) 2024 Annual Report (Report) on bid protests provides a comprehensive overview of the trends, statistics and key issues in government procurement challenges over fiscal year (FY)...more
As in prior years, the upcoming end of the federal fiscal year will be marked by a flurry of contract and task order awards, as federal agencies busily obligate remaining fiscal year 2023 appropriated funds while still...more
The 8(a) Program is in a state of uncertainty as the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) requires participants who relied on the presumption of social disadvantage to enter the program to obtain SBA approval of personal...more
As we dive into the next decade of small business matters (hello 2020!), we wanted to briefly review the key small business regulatory changes that took place at the end of 2019. We also want to discuss a December 2019...more
2/3/2020
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This is the second blog post in a series analyzing the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as signed into law on Aug. 13, 2018. Stay tuned for more blog posts covering additional topics in the near future from...more
The U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) recently dismissed a protest by a state licensing agency (SLA) challenging the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under a solicitation issued pursuant to the...more
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently issued several proposed rules and a final rule amending the VA Acquisition Regulation (VAAR) as part of a phased approach intended to streamline the VAAR to eliminate...more
9/19/2018
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For those of you who have ever protested a solicitation before the Government Accountability Office (GAO), you know about GAO’s strict rules regarding timeliness. Under GAO rules, a document is considered filed on a...more
On May 1, 2018, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council published a final rule amending FAR 16.505(a)(10) to raise the minimum threshold for Government Accountability Office (GAO) protests of certain task and...more
5/7/2018
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