Welcome to Jenner & Block’s Government Contracts Legal Round‑Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update offers brief summaries of key developments for government contracts legal,...more
Welcome to Jenner & Block’s Government Contracts Legal Round‑Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update offers brief summaries of key developments for government contracts legal,...more
Welcome to Jenner & Block’s Government Contracts Legal Round‑Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update offers brief summaries of key developments for government contracts legal,...more
Notable Updates -
Biden Administration Ends Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate -
On May 9, 2023, President Biden issued an executive order revoking his prior executive orders requiring vaccination of federal employees (EO...more
Notable Headlines -
False Claims Act -
It used to be rare for the Supreme Court to hear False Claims Act cases. It’s a lot less rare now. On April 18, the Supreme Court heard argument concerning two Seventh Circuit...more
5/18/2023
/ Bid Protests ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
GAO ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
SBA ,
Scienter ,
SCOTUS ,
Settlement ,
US ex rel Thomas Proctor v Safeway Inc ,
US ex rel Tracy Schutte et al v SuperValu Inc et al
Legislative Update -
Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Use of Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS) Assessments (DFARS Case 2019–D009)
DoD issued a final rule amending the DFARS to update the policy...more
4/18/2023
/ Amended Regulation ,
Bid Protests ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Contractors ,
Data Privacy ,
DFARS ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
FOIA ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NIST ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Privacy Laws ,
Risk Assessment
Claims Cases Aries Construction Corp. v. United States, No.22-166C (February 21, 2023)
- Court of Federal Claims Judge Schwartz issued an opinion discussing the relationship between the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) claim...more
4/17/2023
/ Appeals ,
Bid Protests ,
Biden Administration ,
Contract Disputes ,
Contract Disputes Act ,
Contractors ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
GAO ,
Inflation Adjustments ,
Penalties ,
Suspensions & Debarments
FOIA -
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington v. United States, No. 21-5276 (D.C. Cir. January 31, 2023)
The DC Circuit clarified what information an agency may properly withhold under FOIA’s Exemption...more
Yesterday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2022. The statutorily mandated report contains an array of information about GAO’s bid protest forum...more
On March 18, 2022, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a final rule to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to mandate that DoD provide enhanced postaward debriefings to contractors. As we...more
Government contractors are often faced with the dilemma of their proposed key personnel becoming unavailable for contract performance, through no fault of their own, at a point after proposal submission but prior to contract...more