On August 3, 2023, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a new final rule, “Pre-enforcement Notice and Conciliation Procedures” to modify the procedures used by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”)...more
On August 19, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) published a Notice in the Federal Register of a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request to federal contractors. Will Evans, of the Center...more
Please note: The below information may require updating, including additional clarification, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop.
It is another week, and there is another ruling on vaccine mandates. This week,...more
Please note: The below information may require updating, including additional clarification, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop.
If you are a federal contractor or subcontractor you have likely spent much of...more
Please note: The below information may require updating, including additional clarification, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop.
December 8, 2021, had been looming over government contractors as the date by...more
Please note: The below information may require updating, including additional clarification, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop.
In early September, President Biden issued a series of Executive Orders (“EO”)...more
Government contractors are no stranger to various regulatory requirements and two recent Executive Orders will require most contractors to comply with mandatory COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Last week, President Joe...more
The CARES Act provides payroll relief for government contractors that are likely impacted by the current public health emergency....more
FedBizOpps is a well-known name to government contractors. It refers to the Federal Business Opportunities website— fedbizopps.gov —which operates as an aggregation site of government opportunities valued at greater than...more
Dealing with intellectual property (IP) on government contracts can be a confusing maze of laws, regulations, and directives. Contractors and defense agencies can clash in any number of areas: who owns what; infringement and...more
At least once a year, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) posts a Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (“CSAL”). The CSAL identifies federal government contractors and...more
Case Study: GAO Bid Protest. Recently, the firm’s Government Contracts team — led by Larry Prosen with support from Gunjan Talati, Nick Nieto, and Jarett Dillard — successfully defended an award for Larry Prosen’s client,...more
If you participate in the government contracts universe, you know the law affords you the opportunity to pursue bid protests. Bid protests are generally disputes involving either (a) the terms of a solicitation (invitation...more
After much testing, inquiry of industry and rulemaking, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has formally issued new rules that provide updated e-filing methods and systems as well as fees—yes, fees—for filing and...more
With GSA Successfully completing the first on-ramp of contractors by adding 31 new small businesses to the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business (OASIS SB) Pool 2 contract, it may be time for...more
Kilpatrick Townsend’s Gunjan Talati and Chris Henel, members of the firm’s Government Contracting Team, recently presented a webinar in collaboration with Federal Publications Seminars. With over 300 in attendance, they...more
Kilpatrick Townsend’s Gunjan Talati and Chris Henel, members of the firm’s Government Contracting Team, recently presented a webinar in collaboration with Federal Publications’ Cybersecurity Institute on best practices and...more
The fall brings many nice things: cooler weather, beautiful leaves, and of course, the Government’s fiscal year end. To those wondering where in the world Kilpatrick’s government contracts attorneys have been (because they...more
Larry Prosen and Gunjan Talati, partners in Kilpatrick Townsend’s Government Contracts and Construction & Infrastructure Group, recently presented on an issue of growing importance -- “Protecting Your IP When Government...more
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently endorsed private citizens bringing data breach claims directly against a government contractor where the contractor failed adequately to safeguard the...more
There is no shortage of news these days involving Russia. You would think that U.S. government contracting would be immune from these considerations. You’d be wrong. That’s because on July 11 2017, the Government removed...more
In a remarkable opinion with potentially wide-ranging implications, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently allowed a member of the public to sue a federal government contractor directly for...more
Public universities have a new case to add to their defense arsenal should they find themselves as a defendant in a False Claims Act (FCA) case. On April 11, 2017, in United States et al v. Oregon Health and Sciences...more
If you’ve been following the GSA for the last few years then you know the agency has been committed to reforming its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. This reform included combining seven professional services schedules...more
We’ve covered the Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces rule since it came out last summer. In a series of alerts we told you specifics about the rule and what labor law violations contractors would have to disclose as a result of the...more