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This month's bid protest roundup focuses on two recent decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and one decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ("Court").

This month’s bid protest roundup focuses on two recent decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and one decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (“Court”).

I’m a bad traveler. When visiting a new place, I struggle to let the culture and customs wash over me and go with the flow. I’m much more analogous to a stick in the mud. Incidentally,...

Though we are not yet halfway through 2022, the COFC has issued two decisions that highlight divergent views from GAO precedent regarding the availability of key personnel and whether...

A brief overview of the public procurement bidding process in USA, including key procedures, notices and amendment of bids.

When I was a kid, Nickelodeon’s after-school line up was always interrupted by a steady parade of ads for various junk foods. In the cacophony of flashy packaging and branding, one...

The Department of Defense (“DoD”) recently issued its final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) to provide offerors enhanced post-award...

Final Rule implements Section 818 of the NDAA FY 2018, which amended DOD statutory authority at 10 U.S.C. § 2305, to provide required enhanced post-award debriefing rights for competitive negotiated contracts, task orders, and delivery orders that exceed $10 million.

On March 18, 2022, the Department of Defense (“DOD”) issued its long-awaited Final Rule implementing Section 818 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (“NDAA FY...

Contractors have been bound by a Class Deviation implementing these requirements since March 2018, with DOD only issuing its proposed rule in May 2021.