When reviewing your case for challenging a bid protest and agency corrective action, you must first understand that in a GAO bid protest, contracting officers in negotiated procurements have broad discretion to take corrective action. The underlying basis for taking such action should be necessity ensure a fair and impartial… Read more »
Oftentimes, government contractors wonder whether to file a GAO protest or Court of Federal Claims (COFC) bid protest. As a CEO you should consider substantive and financial costs associated with each choice. There are often situations when you should file versus going to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The following… Read more »
Avoid Costly Legal Mistakes When Challenging Total Small Business Set Aside Rules by the Government In Bid Protests. If you are selling products or services to the federal government, then you may already know that procurement law provides for very strict rules about small business set aside decisions. However, many contracting agencies… Read more »
Can the agency use an undisclosed independent government cost estimate (IGCE FAR) to evaluate your proposal? Take a more meaningful approach hen challenging the government contract price estimations and source selection methods. In previous GAO bid protest rulings, it has made it clear that an agency must give enough information… Read more »
How to Avoid Costly Contractor Teaming Agreement Mistakes in a Bid Protest When submitting a government proposal, you may choose to submit a contractor teaming agreement to show evidence of relationships with another subcontractor. Yet, a question arises in a bid protest whether your teaming agreements were sufficiently evaluated by the Source Selection… Read more »
Common Management and identity of interest are part of affiliation disputes raised in a small business size protest. However, you must be fully aware of the legal issues and how lawyers analyze them. You do not want to lose out in a SBA size appeal by taking on the case… Read more »
Contractors often have questions about meaningful discussions under FAR 15.306 in the agency source selection process. With many GAO bid protests being filed for lack of meaningful discussions between the Government and offerors, it is important to understand the rules. Meaningful discussions have been seen consistently in GAO protest… Read more »
To be able to decide on whether or not to hire a federal appellate lawyer, you may want to first understand the basics of what is an appeal and what attorneys are supposed to do. The first thing that must settle in your mind is that you simply should not file… Read more »
Federal appeal lawyers help you to navigate through the complex procedural regulations in such a unique area of practices. If you are a party at the federal trial court and you receive and adverse decision, you could potentially have a choice to appeal the decision to a federal court of… Read more »
Avoiding Confusion with FAR Price Reasonableness Determination and Price Realism Analysis Can Make the Difference in GAO Protest Outcomes. Price realism and price reasonableness are evaluation analysis theories that can cause confusion among government contractors when filing a bid protest. Failure to understand the differences between price realism and price reasonableness can… Read more »