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Bid Protest Minute: The High Bar to Proving Contract Officer Bias

GovCon & Trade

By: Richard Arnholt On November 8, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied an unsuccessful bidder’s protest that asserted the Veteran Administration’s (VA) evaluation of Texas Waste Company’s past performance was unreasonable and reflected the Contracting Officer’s (CO) bias. B-418123.4, 9, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 397 at 5.)

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Bid Protest Hub – January 2024

Government Contracts & Investigations

After receiving quotations, the contracting officer added salient characteristics to the technical evaluation form to be considered during evaluations that were not stated in the solicitation. For the awardee’s first prior experience example, the TET report did not analyze or evaluate the size of the project.

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New Index Helps Governments Design Better Escape Clauses to Bridge Fiscal Rigidity with Crisis Adaptability

Inter-American Development Bank

Achieving this balance is not trivial, and a crucial question arises: How can the definition and quality of these escape clauses impact a country’s ability to navigate economic shocks while maintaining fiscal discipline? Higher scores are assigned to clauses closely mirroring the ideal scenario within each dimension.

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Army changing the color of money used to modernize software

Federal News Network

Margaret Boatner, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform “We are targeting a couple of really key processes like our test and evaluation processes, and importantly, our cybersecurity processes. Historically, that was not a parallel process, but definitely a series process.

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“(Don’t) Let the Chips Fall Where They May”:  FAR Council Previews Proposed Rule Implementing the Covered Semiconductor Prohibition  

Government Contracts Legal Forum

Both prohibitions will apply to all procurements, including commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items, and purchases below the micro-purchase threshold: Section 5949(a)(1)(A) ( Part A ) prohibits agencies from acquiring electronic products or services that include covered semiconductor products or services.

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The End of a Saga: Swiss Federal Supreme Court Upholds Clorox v. Venezuela Final Award

Kluwer Arbitration

The SFSC noted that in its set-aside action, Venezuela presented its own version of the facts and substituted its evaluation of the evidence for that of the tribunal. This criticism, even if it were true, would not reach the high threshold for a violation of public policy, in any event (para.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

Similar issues arise with the possibility to creatively structure remuneration under some of these contracts to keep them below regulatory thresholds (eg by ‘remunerating in data’). Such requirements could be seen as unjustified and/or disproportionate, leading to an infringement of EU procurement law.