The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released new guidance in the push to consolidate federal procurement activities. The guidance, which expands on Executive Order 14240, aims to reduce waste and duplication by…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting
This month’s Bid Protest Roundup focuses on three recent protests from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The first protest involves an organizational conflict of interest, the second pertains to oral evaluations,…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
Earlier this year, the Department of Defense (DoD) published an “Intellectual Property Guidebook for DoD Acquisition.” It is the culmination of many years of work and the most insightful data rights guidance out of the…
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/ Government Contracting, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Buried toward the bottom of President Trump’s Executive Order, titled “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” (the “Order”), is a mandate to identify military programs made more “efficient or lethal if replaced” by unmanned…
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/ Government Contracting, Military Law, Transportation
This month’s bid protest spotlight features a trifecta of decisions from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
In MVL USA Inc. v. United States, a consolidated bid protest involving seven protesters, the Court rejected protesters’…
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/ Administrative Law, Construction Law, Government Contracting, Military Law
The Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR) is a successful initiative that increases the participation of small business concerns in federally funded research and development. Awards under Phases I and II of the…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
The latest part of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to undergo a rewrite is FAR Part 10, which addresses market research for acquisitions. The General Services Administration has already adopted the new Part 10 via class…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
This month’s Law360 Bid Protest Roundup focuses on two Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) decisions and one Office of Hearings and Appeals (“OHA”) decision. From General Services Administration (“GSA”) Schedule holders to…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Government Contracting
At the end of 2024, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) published a plan (“Restoring Freedom’s Forge: American Innovation Unleashed”) and introduced a bill (the Fostering Reform and Government Efficiency in Defense Act or FoRGED Act)…
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/ Administrative Law, Military Law, Government Contracting
The current administration’s efforts to reform the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) are now officially underway. On April 15, 2025, in an Executive Order titled Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement (EO or “Order”),…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
The Administration signed two Executive Orders (EOs or “Orders”) and one Presidential Memorandum (“Memo”) on April 9, 2025, that aim to make federal procurements faster and more efficient:
1.Modernizing Defense Acquisitions…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade
This month’s bid protest roundup highlights three protest decisions released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) in March. The first discusses an…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting
On April 3, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued two memoranda implementing President Trump’s Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. Memorandum M-25-21,…
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/ Government Contracting, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Federal Acquisition Regulation, initially issued on April 1, 1984, appears poised to be rewritten. Several online sources reference a GSA announcement posted on Friday, April 4, that supposedly heralded a bottom-up rewrite…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting
FedRAMP Director Pete Waterman recently unveiled the “FedRAMP 20x” plan – a proposal designed to reimagine and reformulate the FedRAMP authorization process for federal government use of cloud-based products and services…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
