Change and uncertainty are among the words that come to mind when describing the government contracting industry in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second administration. Since taking office for the second time on...more
Please join Vinson & Elkins, Gray Analytics, and keynote speaker Stacy Bostjanick of the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Chief Information Officer for a CLE discussing the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model...more
Although the incoming Trump administration is beginning to take shape, there is still a lot of uncertainty around the specifics of the incoming administration’s priorities. However, during his campaign, President-elect Trump...more
12/5/2024
/ Affirmative Action ,
Buy America ,
Defense Contracts ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Environmental Policies ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act (FPASA) ,
Government Efficiency ,
Minimum Wage ,
Reverse Discrimination ,
Trump Administration
On October 15, 2024, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) released its final rule (the “Final Rule”) formally establishing the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (“CMMC”) program, nearly three years after first...more
11/22/2024
/ Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) ,
Compliance ,
Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ,
DCMA ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
DFARS ,
Federal Contractors ,
NIST ,
Subcontractors
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (“FAR Council”) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on November 14, 2022, that would create several significant compliance obligations for federal contractors....more
12/7/2022
/ Compliance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Register ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Investors ,
Popular ,
Proposed Rules ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
In this program, attorneys in V&E’s Government Contracts practice will discuss significant developments in the federal procurement space during the first year of the Biden Administration.
We will cover the most important...more
As the Biden Administration wraps up its first 100 days, legislative initiatives, new executive orders, and regulatory changes will have a material impact on the landscape of public procurement and government contracting. V&E...more
A recent enforcement action announced by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice included a notable plot twist – the investigation did not turn up an antitrust crime, but instead revealed a criminal...more
12/10/2020
/ Antitrust Division ,
Bid Solicitation ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fraud ,
Insider Information ,
Inspector General ,
Plea Agreements ,
Procurement Guidelines
The intersection of government contracting and antitrust law keeps making the news. In a companion set of bid protest decisions released in October 2020, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) recommended...more
In June 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) suspended a government contractor, Perceptics, LLC, after it suffered a highly publicized cyberattack that resulted in a breach of sensitive data collected from...more
10/7/2020
/ Biometric Information ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Failure to Report ,
Federal Contractors ,
OIG ,
Popular ,
Reporting Requirements
On July 10, 2020, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (“FAR”) Council released a prepublication version of an interim rule, FAR Case 2019-009 (the “Interim Rule”), amending the FAR to prohibit federal agencies from contracting...more
V&E’s Government Contracts practice authored the US procurement law section of Chambers’ 2020 Global Practice Guide on Public Procurement, which was released April 6, 2020. The Guide covers core legislation and regulations,...more
On Friday, March 20, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), an Executive Office within the White House, released guidance to federal department and agency heads on dealing with federal contractors as the nation...more