Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

billion information technology deal, after being accused of unfairly evaluating bidders' proposals. These are Law360's top government contracts for February. Navy gave a shipbuilder $1.2 billion to begin its overdue overhaul of the USS Boise, and the U.S. Defense Health Agency expanded its contractor pool for a $2.5

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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. The question disappointed healthcare contractors should ask is whether the agency acted unreasonably in its evaluation and selection of the awardee. B-421325, 2023 CPD ¶ 74 (Mar.

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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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GovSpend

APRIL 5, 2023

Selling to the government can be a highly lucrative endeavor for businesses, but it can also be a complex and challenging process. In this blog post, we will provide a detailed guide on how businesses can successfully sell to the government in the SLED market.

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GovSpend

APRIL 5, 2023

Selling to the government can be a highly lucrative endeavor for businesses, but it can also be a complex and challenging process. In this blog post, we will provide a detailed guide on how businesses can successfully sell to the government in the SLED market.

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This two-part series discusses the five steps of the procurement journey beginning with concept and development and continuing with posting, evaluation and award. Step 1 Concept The concept stage consists of needs analysis, governance, project planning, research and risk assessment.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

However, this technology has not yet registered a significant foothold when it comes to the evaluation process. The adjudicators or evaluators of a tender act as both gatekeepers on behalf of the tendering process. Any evaluation process must keep in mind issues such as market forces and supply issues, local and/or regional.

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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”). United States, the Court found the agency’s decision to follow GAO’s recommendation to evaluate the protester’s proposal as though its key personnel was unavailable was irrational. [1]

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SmallGovCon

MAY 29, 2024

2024) , REV, LLC (REV) was a bidder on the VA’s Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology-Next Generation (T4NG) program. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? We explore that here. In REV, LLC v. United States, Aptive Res., 4th 1156, 1159 (Fed. Give us a call at 785-200-8919.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

“A written response to your inquiry will be made available to prospective bidders within the next week.” “The primary problem with SEWP VI is it combines IT products with IT services, which makes it the largest GWAC in the federal government with a 10-year lifespan and a ceiling of over $100 billion.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s going to be a tight turnaround for potential bidders to submit their comments on the Army’s latest draft, issued on Oct. That timeline is basically unheard of in the world of large federal ID/IQ contracts, which typically take the government years to plan and award. 11; the deadline is this Friday.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. There was a three phase evaluation of proposals requiring offerors to submit a self scoring sheet that assigned points for offerors representations on experience and capabilities under various criteria identified in the solicitation. And proposals were originally due on Aug.

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Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In government co-ops, a lead government agency issues a solicitation for a good or service, evaluates proposals, and awards a contract. Some portals are partially financed through small charges to the winning bidders, but often the total cost of sourcing is borne by the procurement organization.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This article provides a comprehensive guide for consultancies on improving their chances of success when bidding for management consulting tenders, whether from government entities, NGOs, or private sector companies. Winning management consultancy contracts via competitive tender can be lucrative yet challenging.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

SBA’s proposed rule would change HUBZone protests appeals, principal office requirements (which we did discuss a bit before here ), HUBZone map concepts, and the HUBZone price evaluation preference (PEP). PEP (Price Evaluation Preference) Finally, we look at proposed changes to the HUBZone PEP. Email us here.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Three times the losing bidder protested. Usually when you get to the point where you’re arguing that the agency’s technical evaluation was wrong, it’s often subjective and you’re likely to lose. So what what are the lessons learned here then, for bidders? Usually the government just stays it anyway.

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Federal News Network

MAY 29, 2024

And that means that the government has to actually spend more money on the contract. But that’s a lousy way to fix what’s a universal problem across all government contracting. In one place, the RFP makes it clear that the solicitor, the bidder, should have a labor harmony agreement in place before the contract starts.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 25, 2024

Interview transcript: David Berteau This is really a valuable resource, not only for contractors, but of course, it’s vital for the government. So it’s really a benefit to both the government and to industry. So it actually has support from within the government. The federal government’s huge Tom.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

AUGUST 24, 2021

The FCDO-funded (formerly DFID) project “ Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting ” releases the contracting datasets collected from national public procurement portals in 10 low and middle income countries: Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Paraguay, Uganda and Uruguay. tax haven registration).

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. This is particularly important as the new 2023 procurement law expands monitoring from only central government entities to local institutions as well.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While it is good that the requirement generated significant industry interest with over 250 proposals received, the established acquisition strategy and evaluation methodology were not suitable to result in a manageable number of prime contract awards. It is in neither the U.S. Agencies have cancelled procurements for a lack of competition.

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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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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Public Procurement Report The latest National Audit Office (NAO) report provides detailed recommendations for UK Government departments’ to maximise the benefits of effective competition when they run public procurement processes. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

19, 2023, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) held that the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) had made an impermissible conversion to competitive proposals (negotiated procurement) and sustained a protest. However, the bid exceeded the Independent Government Estimate (“IGE”) of $46.6 In Great Lakes Dredge & Drydock Co.,

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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. Several of the dismissal decisions issued in October provided additional guidance regarding these considerations – for example: In Capgemini Government Solutions, LLC , B-421962 (Oct.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Boston Consulting Group Federal filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Office on Aug. One is there is still, even for us, a lot of confusion around how we evaluate joint ventures and small business teams who are coming together as primes as part of the source selection process. 28 over the terms of the solicitation.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 30, 2024

But for government contractors, this has some very unique and I think, deleterious consequences. Those key personnel actually have a huge effect on your on the government’s evaluation of the contractors proposal and on the ability to actually win the job and be able to perform the work. Tom Temin Right. Your approach.

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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.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Last week, a guidance memo came out, having to do with small business participation in government-wide acquisition contract. So it seems like a kind of changing the rules for all contractors that one places on these particular government wide acquisition contracts. Their core business is government contracting. Tom Temin Right.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. In OECD member countries, public procurement represents 29% of government expenditure. They source their data from national, provincial and municipal governments.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

It can help raise awareness in case someone was not yet talking about this and, more seriously, it includes an Annex A that brings together the several different bits of guidance issued by the UK government to date. Data and information generated under contracts already in place may not be subject to adequate data governance frameworks.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 7, 2024

In this case, it was Independent Rough Terrain Center LLC was the losing follow-on bidder. But the argument was from the protester that they didn’t follow their own solicitation requirements and they evaluated this improperly. The government is buying goods or services, right? I mean, who? What did the court say?

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Jay Blindauer A contractor takes on a Government contract to make money, and inflation is getting in the way. With inflation eroding value for this long, a Government contractor may need to obtain contract relief. Relief So, how does a contractor obtain inflation cost relief from the Government?

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. The transparency interventions selected for each country predominantly led to more data in a more accessible format to be published by the government for the general public, including civil society, businesses, but also government agencies themselves (Table 1).

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

MARCH 22, 2022

Debriefings as a Tool for Bid Protests Bid protests are designed to protect the integrity of the procurement process and to allow disappointed bidders or offerors the opportunity to seek relief for an improper or flawed solicitation or contract award decision. Whether before the U.S.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

For more complex procurement requirements, the submission lead-time may be extended to allow bidders adequate time to prepare comprehensive bids. Policies governing Shopping typically require quotations from at least three vendors.

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This isn't your typical GAO bid protest where a losing bidder challenges the award of a contract to a competitor but is based on a request coming from Congress. Elsewhere, the OIG noted that it had significant experience evaluating the award of DoD contract and that it would conduct a full audit of the award of this particular contract.

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