Compliance Stuff

As we have  written previously , contractors must act fast to file a bid protest if they lose a contract award for improper reasons . But what should a contractor do when it wins the award and another competitor files a bid protest? It should immediately intervene in the protest to defend its award. What is Intervention in a Bid Protest and Why Should the Awardee Intervene? When a protest is filed at the Court of Federal Claims (“COFC”) or the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”), the contract awardee can intervene and become a party to that protest to help the Government defend the contract award. Instead of just relying on the Government to raise all the relevant arguments, the awardee can itself raise arguments on its own behalf that support and supplement the Government’s arguments. Every contract awardee should intervene to protect its award. Primary reasons for intervention. Several important reasons exist for the contract awardee to intervene in a protest, including the ...

  By now, anyone who has had their finger on the pulse of government contracting is keenly aware of the impact the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has had on acquisitions. As of this writing,   DOGE claims   the amount of dollars saved because of the 13,000-plus contracts terminated to be greater than $58 billion. And while that figure   has been debated   and, even if accurate, would represent only a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars the U.S. government spends each year purchasing goods and services, DOGE’s mission of terminating contracts and cancelling procurements appears here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. What does this mean for government contractors now that we’re quickly approaching the end of the federal fiscal year, when thousands of contracts normally are awarded as agencies hurry to obligate the rest of their funding for the year? For one thing, there are no more guarantees when it...