2024-2025 Bid Protest Decisions with Far-Reaching Impacts for Government Contractors
Navigating Bid Protest Choices at GAO and COFC
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A Discussion with GAO General Counsel Edda Emmanuelli Perez
GovCon Perspectives Podcast Episode 24: Effective Use of “Open and Frank” Discussions in Bid Protests
Award Protests: Choosing the Forum
How to Assess the Likelihood of Success in Deciding Whether to Bring a Bid Protest
Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report: Small Business Contracting, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Needs Increased Contractor Oversight to Reduce Reporting Errors - On March 13, GAO released a...more
Corporate Transparency Act, Part 4: Reporting Requirements Temporarily Suspended - As you may have been following, PilieroMazza previously reported on the requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and the...more
This month’s Bid Protest Roundup highlights three recent protests from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. The first protest concerns whether the protester is an interested party; the second involves the adequacy of an...more
Department of Defense (DOD) Final Rule: Inapplicability of Certain Laws and Regulations to Commercial Items - DOD issues this Final Rule to amend the DFARS to address the inapplicability of certain laws and regulations to...more
SBA to Require Individually-Owned 8(a) Firms to Support Social Disadvantage Prior to 8(a) Award Approval - As PilieroMazza recently reported, on July 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Federal Court Prohibits SBA’s Use of Rebuttable Presumption for 8(a) Program - On July 19, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued an important decision where...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - GAO Sustains Rare Bid Protest Challenging Agency’s Corrective Action - In February 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) agreed to take corrective action following three bid protests filed at the...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - Biden Signs PRICE Act to Reform Federal Procurement and Help Small Business Contractors, March 9, 2022, Cy Alba President Biden recently signed the PRICE Act (Promoting Rigorous and Innovative Cost...more
While GAO does not make any recommendations in its report, it provides a useful overview of the federal government’s implementation of Section 3610. Agencies made relatively little use of their Section 3610 authority...more
As August recess gets underway for the House and the Senate, ML Strategies has prepared a summary of the status of this summer’s key cybersecurity issues. ML Strategies will continue to track these and other cybersecurity...more
CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY - Department of Defense – The DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of the protection of controlled unclassified information (CUI) on contractor-owned networks and systems....more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - The Congressional Research Service issued a report providing an overview of small business contracting. The report describes the various federal programs, requirements, procurement officers, and...more
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report on the federal government implementation of the Buy American Act. The Buy American Act of 1933 is one of several statutes implementing a preference for...more