JUNE 2021 BID PROTEST ROUNDUP (LAW360 SPOTLIGHT)
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- This month’s Law360 Bid Protest Roundup starts on a promising note as courts begin opening their doors after months of restricted access due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This Roundup covers decisions addressing the Blue and Gold Fleet rule, recovery of protest costs at the... ›
May 2021 Bid Protest Roundup (Law360 Spotlight)
By: Caitlin A. Crujido
This month’s Bid Protest Roundup ( featured on Law360 ) examines three recent decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Court of Federal Claims (COFC). The first, Tridentis, LLC [1], highlights the importance of submitting a sufficiently clear proposal; the second, M... ›Executive Order on Cybersecurity Expands Mandatory Breach Notification and Supply Chain Security Requirements for Government Contractors
By: Tina D. Reynolds and Sandeep N. Nandivada
On May 12, 2021, the Biden administration issued an ambitious Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO) declaring the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents to be a “top priority and essential to national and economic security.” Over 8,000 words long,... ›Morrison & Foerster Government Contracts Attorneys Recognized in Chambers USA 2021 Rankings
By: Kevin P. Mullen, J. Alex Ward, Tina D. Reynolds, Damien C. Specht, Charles L. Capito and David A. Churchill
Chambers USA again recognizes Morrison & Foerster as one of only four Band I government contracts practices in the country and highlights multiple attorneys for particular excellence in the field. Read what clients are saying about us in this year’s publication:... ›DOD Proposes Enhanced Debriefing Regulations
By: James A. Tucker
Section 818 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (FY 2018 NDAA) ushered in enhanced post-award debriefing requirements for covered Department of Defense (DOD) procurements. DOD formally implemented part of those requirements in 2018 in Class Deviation 2018-O0011 , which required DOD... ›Post-Brexit UK Public Procurement Reform
By: Alistair Maughan
The Procurement Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech at the opening of Parliament in May 2021 was one of 30 new bills on the UK government’s legislative agenda for the coming year. The main aim of the Procurement Bill is to reform the government... ›Data Rights: Current Developments & Pending DOD Changes
Jay DeVecchio recently published a Briefing Paper for Thomson Reuters covering recent developments in the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) data rights provisions. Dissecting the DOD’s recent actions and attitudes, this article contextualizes the upcoming DOD proposal as it... ›APRIL 2021 BID PROTEST ROUNDUP (LAW360 SPOTLIGHT)
By: Sandeep N. Nandivada and Markus Gerhard Speidel
This installment of our monthly Law360 bid protest spotlight examines three protest decisions addressing (1) mismatches between proposed labor categories and the scope of a vendor’s underlying General Services Administration (GSA) schedule contract; (2) whether an agency improperly used an unstated evaluation criterion; and... ›National Security and Investment Act Receives Royal Assent
By: Stuart Alford
On 29 April 2021, there was a significant development in the evolving European national security landscape, when the National Security and Investment Act (the “Act”) was granted Royal Assent and passed into law in the United Kingdom. Originally published in November 2020, the Act... ›Levels of Accountability: What Federal Contractors Should Know About Small Business Subcontracting Plans and Compliance Reviews
By: Damien C. Specht, Alissandra Young McCann and Roke Iko
Every year, the U.S. federal government establishes goals for the awards of prime contracts and subcontracts to small business concerns. While agencies are responsible for achieving these goals by awarding prime contracts to small businesses, contractors that are “other than small” are obliged to... ›