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The Government Accountability Office (GAO), in Spartan Medical, Inc., B-419503, recently clarified the scope of its jurisdiction over bid protests involving an agency’s use of its other...

Disappointed government contractors and their legal counsel weigh the benefits of filing bid protests at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) versus the Court of Federal Claims...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Pursuing a post-award bid protest at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) can provide protesters the benefit of the stay of performance under the Competition in Contracting Act (the CICA stay). To qualify, offerors must protest either within ten days of contract award, or, within five days after the offered date for a required debriefing, whichever is later.[1] As a result of debriefing reforms contained in the National Defense ...

Thursday, Feb 11, 2021 On January 28th, a group of U.S. Congressmen, led by former Green Beret and now Republican Party legislator, Michael Waltz, introduced to the U.S. Congress a new bill dedicated to Venezuela entitled the “Bipartisan Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime Act”. In an act of cynicism, the creators and promoters of the law tendentiously and symbolically established the contradictory short title of “BOLIVAR Act”, its acronym in Englis...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Contractors and contractor teams competing for set-aside contracts should internalize the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) compliance lesson imparted by a recent Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) protest decision related to small business set-aside procurements. In Kira Training Services, LLC, B-419149.3 (January 4, 2021) GAO illustrated that in the set-aside area, an Agency can violate a mandatory FAR provision,...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘Bolivar Act’ to tighten U.S. sanctions against elected Venezuelan government February 9, 2021 9:47 AM CDT By Misión Verdad Right wing extremist GOP Rep. Michael Waltz is leading the fight for passage of a law that will tighten sanctions against the democratically elected g...

On January 28, a group of U.S. Congressmen, led by former Green Beret and now Republican Party legislator, Michael Waltz, introduced into the Congress a new bill dedicated to smashing democracy in Venezuela, cumbersomely entitled the “Bipartisan Banning Operations and Leases with Illegitimate Auth...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued to Congress its annual bid protest report. As discussed below, this years report is noteworthy for multiple reasons, including that it shows that protesters received some form of relief from the procuring agency in more than half of the protests filed with the GAO in FY 2020, and the GAOs use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) increased by 210% in FY 2020. The report is also noteworthy in that it includes, for the first time, "flaw...