Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Government Accountability Office’s annual report to Congress on the state of bid protests always is fascinating. In 2023, GAO received more than 350 protests alone over CIO-SP4. Source: GAO Bid Protest Report to Congress for Fiscal 2024. Let’s get back to GAO’s bid protest report.

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GovCon & Trade

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The decision offers important lessons that contractors should keep in mind when evaluating solicitations; submitting proposals; and evaluating whether and when to file a bid protest. The procurement contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for help on two missions in the region.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government Contractors. 3] TINA defines cost or pricing data to mean all facts that, as of the relevant date, a prudent buyer or seller would reasonably expect to affect price negotiations significantly. [4]

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

per cent in January 2023, down from 9.2 Inflationary pressures can cause frustration levels among suppliers due to increased costs or reduced demand from customers, particularly when it comes to repeated orders or fixed pricing contracts. Eurozone annual inflation was down 8.5 per cent in the previous month.

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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 31, 2024

FAR 52.214-16, Minimum Bid acceptance Period: the contracting officer inserts a time period in that clause, similar to Form 33 above; or A time period set forth somewhere else in the text of the solicitation. The purpose of the extension is to freeze prices while the agency makes its selection, or takes other action.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. This undermines business confidence, leading to low competition and higher prices for goods and services. All state-regulated procurement in Kazakhstan totaled US $61 billion in 2023, or 23% of gross domestic product. more than the same period in 2023.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to court documents from July 2023, “Carahsoft has acknowledged that it has in its possession, custody or control thousands of documents that are responsive to the Civil Investigative Demand (CID) but that it has failed to produce.” Carahsoft has dealt with charges of violating the False Claims Act previously.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As contracting activities are busy awarding new contracts, it is important to follow the trends related to successful and effective protests as you consider filing your own bid protest, or as you defend your award as an intervenor. Below we dive into recent bid protest decisions and identify what won, what did not win, and why.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released its annual bid protest report to the Congress for fiscal year 2023 on October 26, 2023 (B-158766). The GAO sustain rate increased substantially from 13 percent in FY 2022 to 31 percent in FY 2023. GAO’s two year average sustain rate in FY 2022-2023 was 22 percent.

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Federal News Network

MAY 17, 2024

The number of small businesses participating in the Federal market has plummeted in the last decade, and this downward trend continued in 2023. Providing invoices for thousands or millions of items to establish pricing defies logic when it is highly unlikely the contracting officer will have the time or expertise to review them.

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BLP

JULY 20, 2023

Through the official letter MH-DCoP-OF-0458-2023 of the Public Procurement Directorate of the Ministry of Finance, an interpretation has been made of Article 44 of the Regulations to the new Public Procurement Law regarding the obligation of the Administration to conduc t market research.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 25, 2024

Charlene Bargiel Vice President of Pricing & Estimating, Booz Allen Hamilton In 2023, the pricing and estimating team at Booz Allen achieved new levels of success, providing detailed and data-driven financial insights that significantly improved the firm’s bidding strategy on new contracts, according to Charlene Bargiel.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

FAR 6.401 (Sealed Bidding and Competitive Proposals) states: Sealed bidding [using an Invitation for Bids-IFB] and competitive proposals [using a Request for Proposals-RFP], as described in [FAR] parts 14 and 15 , are both acceptable procedures for use under subparts 6.1 , 6.2 ; and, when appropriate, under subpart 6.3

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 8, 2023

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s 2023 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. All through 2023, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice will keep you up to date with a summary of the most notable bid protest sustain decision each month.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

On October 26, 2023, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its Annual Report on Bid Protests for Fiscal Year 2023. Thus, bid protests remain an important oversight mechanism for the federal procurement system. The post GAO’s Bid Protest Sustain Rate Soars, but Is There a Catch?

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Government Contracts & Investigations

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

With GAO’s statistics for Fiscal Year 2023 (“FY 23”) just released, we thought now is the perfect time to share some insights we gained by reading every published decision in which GAO sustained a protest during FY 23. Just looking at the numbers, between 2019 and 2023, the protester lost between 69% to 87% of the merits based decisions.

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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

With the Procurement Act 2023 set to go live on 24 February 2025, the Cabinet Office has been releasing guidance notes to help both contracting authorities and suppliers prepare. This may include pricing, financial information which could affect the outcome of a future bid, intellectual property and trade secrets.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

Foes are vanquished, in this case Boston Consulting Group, losing its OASIS+ bid protest at the Government Accountability Office. He said GSA disqualified his company around three deficiencies, even after submitting a bid, going through a live demonstration and going back and forth with email questions and answers during the fall.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s 2023 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. All through 2023, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice will keep you up to date with a summary of the most notable bid protest sustain decision each month. Below, Crowell Partner Cherie Owen discusses RELX Inc. ,

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In January 2024, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) published 31 bid protest decisions, two of which resulted in decisions sustaining the protesters’ challenges. Although the protester offered the lowest price, the agency found its proposal was technically unacceptable because it did not meet the new characteristics.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 21, 2023

2023 CPD ¶ 262 (Comp. 17, 2023) , GAO looked at this issue in the context of a lowest-price, technically acceptable (LPTA) solicitation for a brand name or better product, with an unexpected ending that the protester surely did not see coming. In RELX, Inc., Only two offers were submitted, one by the protester, RELX, Inc.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 11, 2025

In 2016, the local government issued a continued construction tender with an estimated price of Rp. There were 21 companies that registered, but only three companies submitted bids. Of the three companies, two of them did not submit an original bid guarantee, leaving one company to be determined as the winner. billion (US$1.2

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GovCon Wire

JULY 11, 2024

The Department of Defense said Monday Army Contracting Command launched an online solicitation and received four bids for the firm-fixed-price contract. In July 2023, ACC issued Army to provide mortar fire control systems and related hardware and training support services.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s 2023 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. All through 2023, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice will keep you up to date with a summary of the most notable bid protest sustain decision each month. In BDO Public Sector, LLC , B-421677.2 (Oct.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A contract notice makes sure everyone knows what’s up for grabs, who’s bidding, and how decisions are made. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. Bid A bid is a proposal that potential suppliers submit in response to a public contract opportunity.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 23, 2023

SIZ-6246, 2023 (Sept. 26, 2023), OHA reviewed an award to Federal Performance Management Solutions, LLC, a joint venture (the JV) between a small business and its approved large business mentor. Since the change, joint ventures are not limited by the number of awards, only by the timing of bids.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Transportation Command first noticed the issues during an initial round of IT testing in August, and they first believed the bulk of them would be resolved by the end of 2023. TRANSCOM later rescinded that decision amid a series of bid protests and what the Government Accountability Office said were “pervasive” violations of procurement law.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

3, 2023) provides an important reminder for government contractors to carefully consider the volatility of market conditions before submitting firm-fixed price contract proposals to the Federal Government. The U.S. A firm-fixed price contract shifts maximum risk and full responsibility for costs to contractors. 63320 (Oct.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. Often prices fall, says Diegues, when a government only holds an annual tender and the products are ordered in large volumes. “As

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 11, 2024

The following is the final installment in Crowell & Moring’s 2023 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. All through 2023, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice kept you up to date with a summary of the most notable bid protest sustain decision each month. FAR Subpart 8.4 121.404(a)(1)(ii).

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a previous article , we analyzed what made protests successful at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) in Fiscal Year 2023 (“FY23”). Now, we want to share some insights we gained while conducting the same analysis of bid protest decisions at the Court of Federal Claims (“COFC” or the “Court”).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MAY 17, 2024

The number of small businesses participating in the Federal market has plummeted in the last decade, and this downward trend continued in 2023. Providing invoices for thousands or millions of items to establish pricing defies logic when it is highly unlikely the contracting officer will have the time or expertise to review them.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

The latest bid, which followed at least two previous failures, is facing similar troubles as earlier projects: incomplete planning, a technology platform with questionable maturity and, maybe most striking, the hubris of the leadership that their current plan will be successful no matter what evidence emerges that tells a different story.

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Federal News Network

JULY 10, 2024

So ASG got this award in 2023. Before GAO got to a decision there, the agency took corrective action, held exchanges with Cogent and ASG, got revised quotations, and then decided that actually it was going to award to Cogent which had a substantially lower price. One was better on price, but it has a conflict of interest.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

For a roundup of some of the most significant protests of 2023, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish. Dan Ramish Yes, this procurement was very notable for the number of big protests, so many protests that set new records and broke the GAO’s bid protests statistics for the year.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

With a 2+ year delay, details for the creation of the public procurement data space ( PPDS ) were disclosed by the European Commission on 16 March 2023 in the PPDS Communication. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023. prices) ’ (at 7, fn 17).

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The private sector offers more flexibility, whereas the public sector requires a more complex and formal process for businesses that are considering bidding for public sector contracts. They include open, restricted and competitive dialogue procedures, which guarantee suppliers a fair and equal opportunity to bid.

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