Theodore P. Watson, Government Contracts and Procurement Fraud Attorney: The Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA requirements), also known as Public Law 87-653, is a U.S. federal law, 10 U.S.C. § 2306a, 41 U.S.C. § 254b that requires government contractors to submit cost or pricing data in their bids and to… Read more »
Introduction: Theodore P Watson. For government contractors involved in legal disputes, the ultimate goal may be to have their case heard by the highest court in the land—the United States Supreme Court. However, the path to obtaining a hearing before the Supreme Court is not a straightforward one. It often… Read more »
Deciding on whether to file a Court of Federal Claims bid protest versus GAO protest or the agency-level protest can be tricky too many government contractors. At the end of the day, many contractors seeking to save revenues worth millions of dollars find that closing bridges or giving up rights… Read more »
Author: Cheryl Adams, Esq. You are a government contractor. Something happened, and performance of your government contract just cost you more money. Whatever it is, you’re pretty certain it was not your firm’s fault. Should you just submit an invoice for the extra… Read more »
Author: Cheryl Adams, Esq. You know your firm has the best product on the market. You should be able to win that lucrative government contract. But when the solicitation is issued, you find the requirements for domestic suppliers make you ineligible to bid. Your product is excluded. Should you throw… Read more »
When the federal government solicits proposals, there are conflict issues that may arise. However, federal government contractors often misunderstand both the FAR conflict of interest government contracts rules for challenging the conflict issue and how to draft a proper OCI conflict of interest mitigation plan, or OCI mitigation plan. What… Read more »
Government contractors sometimes have to make a decision to engage in protesting federal government contract awards. This level of litigation can be brought before the contracting agency, the Government Accountability Office, or the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. To help to make the government contract protest process easier, companies should… Read more »
When the federal government’s contracting agency tries to justify lower past performance evaluation scores, your company at first glance may find it hard to challenge the decision in a bid protest. As in every litigation case, facts drive almost everything. Bid protests based on contractor past performance have less than… Read more »
Government Fight and Arguments for Why its Solicitation Was Unduly Restrictive of Competition Came too Late. In a recent bid protest filed by Pitney Bowes, Inc., of Washington, DC, the U.S. GAO sustained the protest against Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Pitney Bowes litigated the case on… Read more »
In a recent case, GAO denied a bid protest filed by CACI Technologies, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia which challenged the technical evaluation of an award of a task order issued by the Department of the Army, Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) to DynCorp International, LLC. There were previous protests for… Read more »