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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 Authorization Act for FY 2018, offerors on Department of Defense (DoD) procurements have had the opp...
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 English. The immediate precedent dates back to 2019, when Senator Rick Scott, obsessive opponent of t...
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, but a contractor cannot complain unless it takes timely proactive steps to protect itself from the ...