Airforce Turbine Service, Ltd. (ATS), of Mathis, Texas, protested the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. AG-84M8-S-10-0003, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (FS) for aircraft engine maintenance and overhaul services. ATS asserted that the RFP requirement that offerors be a designated overhaul facility (DOF) to qualify… Read more »
An agency post-award FAR part 8 debrief occurs when you have participated in bidding for government contracts awards and receive an unsuccessful offeror letter. In your request, the Agency should tell you about your proposal and provide you with important feedback. A common problem occurs when contractors guess incorrectly when… Read more »
Avoid Mistakes in Bid Protests Federal government contractors often have many questions about the Ostensible Contractor Rule and how it can impact the award of the contract. The bottom line is that if you are submitting government proposals as a small business, you want to stay away from the possibility… Read more »
Do You Know the Next Steps for Your Suspension and Debarment Appeals? As a government contractor, you must be aware that the Board of Contracts Appeal does not have jurisdiction to review suspension and debarment appeals decisions. See Inter-Continental Equipment, Inc., ASBCA No. 38444, 90-1 BCA122,501 at 112,956 (holding the Board lacks… Read more »
An SBA size protest occurs when your competition challenges your small business size standard after award of a government contract. There are a few things that small business can do to avoid an SBA size protest. They include: Making sure that teaming partners or subcontractor does not perform the primary… Read more »
Debriefed? Now What? As a corporate decision to challenge a recent government contract award, getting a pre award or post award debriefing before filing a bid protest letter at GAO is one of the most valuable tools that government contractors can use. One reason is that as a practical matter you… Read more »
If you file a GAO protest and argue that the Agency did not follow procurement regulations, you must ask yourself whether your proposal failed to comply with solicitation requirements. The government contracting agency can reject your proposal for failing to adhere to the solicitation requirements. A recent GAO protest case,Compuline International, Inc.B-408379 found that the agency… Read more »
COFC Bid Protest Decisions Can Favor Contractors During a COFC bid protest, an agency will not prevail when it is shown that the agency did not comply with its evaluation scheme as outlined in the solicitation. The Court of Federal Claims(COFC) ruled for the bid protestor because of the agency’s… Read more »
On May 22, 2013, the Small Business Administration Office of Hearings and Appeals ruled against the Appellant is a SBA Size Protest. (Size Appeal of The Trevino Group, Inc., SBA No. SIZ-5472 (2013). The size appeal was untimely because it was filed more than 15 days after the SBA made… Read more »
Despite the new SBA affiliation rules reducing the possibility of affiliation, small businesses must still be aware of the costly legal mistakes made during the bidding process as well as day-to-day operations. Your company can lose government contracts if correctly challenged in a small business size protest. Companies consistently run… Read more »