Federal News Network

JULY 10, 2024

What happens in these situations when you have too close bidders. The post Why bidders for federal contracts need to deal with conflicts of interest early on first appeared on Federal News Network. Because it wasn’t just a sliver of data that was the problem. It was this wider set of data. GAO just, I guess, invalidated it.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Government Accountability Office recently upheld the protest of a contract award from the Defense Intelligence Agency. It used a slightly unconventional approach to evaluating bidders. DIA was hiring a small business to conduct counterintelligence training. But the source selection authority made a basic mistake.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

When the pandemic began, the Philippines government suspended all public transport. During that period of emergency mobilization, Abante was focused on tracking the country’s COVID-19 response budget , alongside friends and former colleagues from his experience working in the government, academia, and civil society.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 10, 2025

Government Accountability Office has sustained a protest over a $19.9 million National Institutes of Health software development task order, finding the NIH unreasonably treated similar aspects of the protester's and awardee's bids differently.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 12, 2024

This week in federal government contracting news saw some White House initiatives for better contracting, as well as updates on cybersecurity and AI in the federal space. We dug out just in time for a cold blast to arrive today and our Kansas City Chiefs have a playoff game at home this weekend, with the high expected to be a balmy 6 degrees!

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Government Accountability Office rejected a Virginia-based contractor's challenge to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's denial of its $74 million security screening contract proposal, saying it was not prejudiced by the agency's "latent ambiguity" in its solicitation.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Government Accountability Office has backed the Defense Logistics Agency excluding a company from a solicitation for deployment of disaster relief generators, saying the DLA reasonably found conflicts of interest involving the company's work on a related contract.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

These safeguards are designed to protect the integrity of the procurement process and ensure fairness and accountability. These methods may include Shopping , Limited Competitive Bidding , Force Account , or Direct Contracting. Policies governing Shopping typically require quotations from at least three vendors.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest over the U.S. Army reinstating the eventual awardee of a $42.3 million logistics support deal after initially finding the company's bid unacceptable, saying the Army's discussions with the awardee were reasonable.

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GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On December 21, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dismissed a protest by ELS, an unsuccessful bidder on a Department of Defense (DOD) task order opportunity, concluding that it did not have jurisdiction to consider it. GAO reasoned that because “the value of the task order [was] below $25,000,000.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 29, 2024

Government Accountability Office is supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs' decision to cancel a solicitation that lacked proper instructions to bidders, thereby denying a protest from a Maryland business that had its contract canceled.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 14, 2024

Government Accountability Office has sustained an HP Inc. Air Force information technology deal, saying the winning bidder didn't properly show whether monitors it offered complied with the Trade Agreements Act. unit's protest over a U.S.

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Government Contracts

JULY 29, 2024

Government Accountability Office has refused to undo a $25.3 million contract to support the National Institutes of Health, unconvinced that the agency had revealed a bidder's proprietary information during a Zoom call with the eventual contract winner.

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Government Contracts

JULY 29, 2024

Government Accountability Office has rejected a contractor's claims that the U.S. million janitorial contract to an ineligible affiliate, saying the submission identified the contractor as the bidder only once. Department of the Interior misattributed the contractor's bid for a $6.9

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Government Accountability Office ruled that the U.S. Army could require bidders to recertify their small business status when bidding on a set-aside task order, saying the recent overturning of Chevron deference didn't make the Army's interpretation of a related rule unreasonable.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

“This is about meeting our customers where they are with a modernized user experience and streamlined process for government purchase cardholders,” said Tom Howder, the acting Federal Acquisition Service commissioner, in a release. Overstock Government decided not to bid on the next generation platform, sources say.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 3, 2024

Government Accountability Office has cleared the U.S. Navy to sole-source an office contract to one company, rejecting a prospective bidder's claims that it should have a chance to bid on the deal.

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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. Along with ePS-NDVSB, other bidders may have included Amazon and Granger. 21 and the Government Accountability Office has until April 1 to decide. billion in fiscal 2023 to $23.5

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Boston Consulting Group Federal filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Office on Aug. As for the security incident, which potentially affected both vendors on OASIS and bidders on OASIS+, Hixson said a vendor came to GSA and pointed out a potential vulnerability in the tool. 28 over the terms of the solicitation.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Diving into government contracting with SAM requires a clear roadmap to success. Learn the ins and outs of maintaining compliance, crafting a competitive bid, and positioning your business for growth through federal opportunities, all through the lens of SAM’s pivotal role in government procurement.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. But governments’ digital transformation of their systems to better achieve these goals are at varying stages of development and maturity.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. And after amending the solicitation 16 times, the agency received proposals from 1,150 bidders. Tom Temin It sounds like NIH wanted to create a marketplace with as many bidders as they could fit in. You can learn a lot from protests that have already been settled.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

JANUARY 3, 2024

The general rule ( FAR 14.404-1(a) ) is that – once a solicitation is put out for bid – the agency must award the contract to the responsible bidder with the lowest responsive bid. Nick Solosky is a Partner in Fox Rothschild’s Government Contracts Practice Group. However, as is usually the case, there are exceptions.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Government Accountability Office upheld a $13.2 General Services Administration appropriately deemed a bidder's vague subcontracting arrangement a risk. million contract seeking financial support services for the Uniformed Services University, ruling that the U.S.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Government Accountability Office has turned away a naval contractor's protest to the bidding terms for a task order seeking Guantanamo Bay construction workers, saying the terms didn't place the bidder at a competitive disadvantage.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

Army reasonably found risky a bidder's cheaper proposal for a research support deal, justifying its decision to go with a company that had submitted a $153 million bid, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a decision released Friday.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Government Accountability Office has denied a protest by IBM over the terms of a solicitation to modernize the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' supply chain, saying the VA reasonably scrutinized bidders' financial health as part of the deal.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Government Accountability Office backed the U.S. Army's decision to invalidate a bid for a $106 million support deal over missing responses to the contract's 180 subtasks, finding the Army put bidders on notice that they needed responses for each.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Government Accountability Office has refused to upend an $86.4 million Air Force software contract over concerns with a vendor's contracting history, saying the only evidence of the purported problems was a "self-serving statement" offered by a protesting rival bidder.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The government buys billions of dollars in healthcare-related goods and services every year, and no government procurement is perfect. If the answer is “yes”—or even “maybe”—healthcare companies may file a bid protest at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) or the U.S.

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Oles Morrison

AUGUST 24, 2022

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker is beyond thrilled at the success of our government contracts practice group Bid Protest Webinar 2022. Bid Protests are an important weapon in a contractor’s arsenal, whether as a successful awardee or disappointed bidder. appeared first on Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Both systems are mainly designed to support government users, but Dawson said the legacy DPS system relies mostly on manual, paper-based processes once work is actually handed off to moving companies. MilMove will be the initial customer interface where [base transportation offices] will build out their initial move requirement,” he said.

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Step 1 Concept The concept stage consists of needs analysis, governance, project planning, research and risk assessment. Effective project governance establishes who will be on the team and clearly outlines roles and responsibilities. There are many different etendering systems used by various levels of governments.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. This was not always the case.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

Government Procurement Professionals aim to achieve the best value for money in the process of procurement of goods and services for the public. It takes into account components like Cost, Quality, and Technicality of various bid proposals while deciding a contract award.

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Federal News Network

MAY 16, 2024

Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And just briefly review the task, the strike force, what it does and what its scope is and where it fits in the hierarchy of oversight here in the government. When the government is going out into the market to buy stuff. This touches on more than $500 million of government spending.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. and the total value awarded to MSMEs has remained steady. But the pandemic brought many of these businesses to a standstill.

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