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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Diving into government contracting with SAM requires a clear roadmap to success. SAM.gov stands as a crucial portal for businesses seeking federal contracts. This article delivers a concise guide on effectively using SAM, from completing your registration to enhancing your contracting strategy.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As we begin the second quarter of the federal Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), we find ourselves amidst changes that will impact federal contracting in numerous ways. However, this is also the time to review and analyze the federal governments contract awards for the previous fiscal year (FY24), which ended on September 30, 2024.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 14, 2024

million transportation and logistics contract for unaccompanied children in federal custody to a competitor, saying it lost the contract because of a flawed selection process. Trailboss Enterprises Inc. is protesting the General Services Administration's decision to award a $985.4

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 25, 2024

Sayres Defense, a portfolio company of Charlotte, North Carolina-based private equity firm Broadtree Partners, has acquired Global Systems Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of expansion efforts in the government contracting sector.

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SmallGovCon

AUGUST 30, 2024

Other updates include the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) enhancing its mentor-protégé program and dealing with the end of the fiscal year. You can read more about these changes and other federal contracting news in the articles below. We dive into this proposal here.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

‘Ask the PMO Tables:’ One-on-One Sessions with Government Officials As part of our efforts to facilitate engagement between government and industry, we are excited to announce that the popular “Ask the PMO” Tables will return for both days of the Fall Training Conference! James Peake , M.D., James Peake , M.D.,

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Amid rising burnout in the legal industry and client efforts to curtail spending, pivoting to a fixed-fee billing model may improve client-attorney relationships and offer lawyers financial, logistical and stress relief — while still maintaining profit margins, say Kevin Henderson and Eric Pacifici at SMB Law Group.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it also has value far away from the battlespace, such as 5G efficiencies in supply chain and warehouse logistics and support for open standards while maintaining secure networks. and its allies and partners. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2025

A Virginia federal judge has tossed a whistleblower False Claims Act case accusing several contractors of overcharging the military for replacement parts with the aid of the Defense Logistics Agency, after rejecting the relator's bid to cut the federal government as a plaintiff.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 19, 2025

The Federal Circuit refused Wednesday to revive a case challenging a $134 million sole-source fuel supply contract for the U.S. military in Djibouti, saying the challenger wasn't eligible for the deal even if the Defense Logistics Agency had opened it up to competition.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

SIZ-6251 (October 24, 2023), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) conducted a small business set-aside procurement for for evaporative coolers. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? In a recent decision, SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) upheld the use of the adverse inference.

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Select GCR

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

CAGE Codes are used to identify a specific location for a given entity, and ensuring your CAGE Code is up-to-date is crucial for contract eligibility, For CAGE code validation, SAM checks if the company name and address match the details with the Department of Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The post ASBCA’s FY 2023 Report – A Look at the Numbers appeared first on Government Contracts Legal Forum. According to this year’s report, contractors prevailed on 67% of the appeals decided on the merits, continuing a recent uptick in contractor success relative to the success rate of 53% in 2020 and 2021. View the full article

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Government Contracts

MAY 8, 2024

Government Accountability Office has dismissed a Virginia company's protest of a jet fuel contract the Defense Logistics Agency awarded to an Iraqi competitor, saying the protester's challenge of the deal was based on factual inaccuracies.

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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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Government Contracts

JULY 22, 2024

The Defense Logistics Agency has urged the Court of Federal Claims to dismiss a protest alleging it wrongly ignored misconduct by companies awarded $186 million in fuel delivery deals, saying it adequately investigated the claims and found nothing untoward.

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Government Contracts

MAY 10, 2024

Defense Logistics Agency's latest effort to supply fuel to military bases in Djibouti, accusing the agency of requiring interested contractors to obtain a license that can, allegedly, only be received through bribery. An aviation fuel company protested the U.S.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Government Accountability Office has denied a protest brought by a Connecticut helicopter parts maker that claimed the Defense Logistics Agency wrongly sourced a $4 million purchase of parts from a rival, saying a contract vindicated the agency's actions.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 10, 2024

A bid protester has urged the Court of Federal Claims to rule that the Defense Logistics Agency wrongly ignored signs of misconduct from two companies awarded $186 million in fuel delivery deals in Syria and Iraq, and disqualify the companies.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2024

Government Accountability Office said it would reject allegations that the Defense Logistics Agency should have disqualified two awardees from $186 million in fuel delivery deals in Syria and Iraq, saying the agency properly investigated alleged misrepresentations by the companies.

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Government Contracts

MAY 21, 2024

Government Accountability Office denied a Sysco unit's protest of an up-to $126 million defense subsistence supply deal, saying the company failed to show the Defense Logistics Agency had to consider the awardee's performance on a similar interim deal.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Defense Logistics Agency has urged the Court of Federal Claims to toss a protest alleging a $1 billion African fuel supply deal requires a license that can only be secured through bribery, saying not already having the license dooms the protester's case.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

million Defense Logistics Agency sole-source contract with Boeing, covering helicopter spare parts the protester argued it could also provide, ruling the DLA reasonably determined Boeing was the only available source. A Court of Federal Claims judge has denied a protest over a $3.3

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 20, 2024

A company alleging a $1 billion Defense Logistics Agency African fuel supply contract effectively requires bribery to secure has told the Court of Federal Claims it can protest the deal despite lacking a local license, saying the license wasn't necessary for the contracted work.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 4, 2024

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals has tossed all remaining claims in a long-running dispute over Supreme Foodservice GmbH's roughly $8 billion contract to provide food to U.S. troops, after the company and the Defense Logistics Agency jointly agreed to end the case.

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Government Contracts

JULY 11, 2024

A logistics company's suit seeking $41 million in coverage after one of its warehouses in Afghanistan was seized by the Taliban will be tossed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction unless the company can cure the deficiency, which "does not appear feasible," a New York federal court ruled.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Defense Logistics Agency fairly booted an apparel company from the competition for a $13.3 million military berets contract, after the company designed a beret with an unacceptable outside seam, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 21, 2024

Government Accountability Office backed the Defense Logistics Agency's reliance on a contractor's certification that containers it was tapped to ship would use South Korean materials, rejecting a protester's contention the agency should have suspected materials would instead come from China.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 12, 2024

Government Accountability Office rejected a Miami-based aviation fuel and service company's claim that the U.S. Department of Defense's logistics agency unlawfully disclosed an internal memorandum containing sensitive information to a rival company, saying the agency hadn't done so intentionally.

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ivalua

JULY 22, 2015

Supplier diversity programs now go well beyond building a portfolio of diverse suppliers that enable access to government contracts or an improved reputation. Instead, today’s sourcing pros must facilitate cost improvements through a more sophisticated and complete understanding of cost management strategies involving: Materials.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 5, 2024

Court of Federal Claims judge has rejected an aviation fuel services company's suit alleging that the Defense Logistics Agency wrongly failed to mitigate the inadvertent release of sensitive information to the Miami company's rival, saying the agency reasonably determined that the information wasn't competitively useful.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

McKenna Brytan concerned a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Request for Quotations (RFQ) for portable dehumidifiers, set aside for SDVOSBs under North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 333415, Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 16, 2024

A logistics firm has pushed back against the Defense Logistics Agency's argument that a lack of reciprocity between U.S. and Afghan courts should doom the company's $17 million suit over Afghanistan scrap disposal contracts, saying the agency had misinterpreted reciprocity law.

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Government Contracts Advisor

APRIL 23, 2015

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics recently issued a directive on the implementation […]

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aptac

JUNE 22, 2018

Contact your PTAC : There are never shortcuts in government contracting. Your local Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) can help you—at no cost—to take the steps you need to be eligible, to find, and to bid on government contracts. Often these offices control much of the work that is done.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The post DOE Class Deviation Softens FAR Requirement for Continuous SAM Registration appeared first on Government Contracts Legal Forum. View the full article

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 16, 2024

A fuel supplier blasted the Defense Logistics Agency for sole-sourcing a $134 million contract to a company accused by the supplier, in a separate, ongoing lawsuit, of orchestrating a contract fraud scheme straight out of a movie.

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