Companies spend a lot of time and effort polishing the executive summary that goes with proposals but the truth is many executive summaries never get read. Here s why and what value you can add to these documents.
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On January 15, the U.S. Interagency Suspension & Debarment Committee (ISDC) sent its annual report on the status of the federal suspension and debarment system to Congress. In addition to reporting the FY19 suspension and debarment metrics, the report also highlights other important developments in the U.S. suspension and debarment regime.
After reviewing the report, two key issues stood out to me: metrics and harmonization.
With respect to the FY19 metrics, the ISDC deviated from past practices by including only FY19 and FY09 metrics in the report (previous reports have included numerous other years’ metrics in order to demonstrate year-to-year changes).
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC) decision in
HWI Gear, Inc. v. United States highlights the importance of reviewing a solicitation to determine if the text of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.219-28 is included in it, as well as the risk of engaging in corporate transactions while a proposal to a procuring agency is pending. In this case, the COFC held that an offeror was required to recertify its size status
during a procurement, and the agency’s failure to enforce this requirement invalidated the award.
In
HWI Gear, Mechanix Wear, Inc. (Mechanix) and HWI Gear, Inc. (HWI) submitted proposals in response to a solicitation set aside for small businesses. After proposal submission but before award, Mechanix informed the procuring agency that it had changed its corporate structure from a corporation to a limited liability company and changed its corporate name, but that all other terms and conditions in its proposal remained unchanged. Mechanix, however, did
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On January 25, President Biden signed an Executive Order that contemplates increasing the domestic content thresholds and price preferences for domestic goods under the Buy American Act ( BAA, 41 U.S.C. §§ 8301-8305).
1 The Order follows the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council s issuance of a final rule on January 19 (the Trump administration s last full day in office) that increased the domestic content thresholds and price preferences under the BAA pursuant to a July 2019 Executive Order issued by President Trump.
2 President Biden s Order directs the FAR Council to consider proposing further increases, along with changes to the methodology used to measure domestic content under the BAA. The Order also establishes a new, centralized process aimed at minimizing federal agencies use of the waivers and exceptions authorized by the BAA, and by other statutes that require or give preference to the use of dome