December 2022 Bid Protest Roundup: Misrepresentations of Key Personnel, Mandatory-Source Saga Continued
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- This month’s Bid Protest Roundup considers two recent protests: (1) an important decision by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) concerning the awardee’s misrepresentation of the availability of key personnel, and (2) a U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC) protest on remand from the... ›
Fifth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction of Contractor Vaccine Mandate
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 19, 2022, upheld a preliminary injunction of Executive Order 14042, halting the Biden administration’s effort to impose on federal contractors a variety of COVID-19 safety protocols. Over the dissent... ›November 2022 Bid Protest Roundup: Best-Value Tradeoffs, Solicitations
By: Markus Gerhard Speidel
Sometimes a comparison of cases best illustrates the law. This month we analyze a double pair of recent GAO decisions. First, in CharDonnay and Triple Canopy , we compare decisions dissecting the merits of best-value determinations. Second, in Orlans and Cellco , we contrast pre-award challenges to... ›THE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR: Unrecognized and Overt Pressure on Contractors' Data and Software Rights: Risks Posed by H Clauses, Innocuous Acronyms (IPT, IDE, SaaS, DAL), and The Cloud
What do you really know about the data and software rights your engineers may well be giving up every day through Integrated Data Environments, Integrated Products Teams, the Cloud and such? Probably not enough, suggests Jay DeVecchio in an article for The Government Contractor discussing... ›White House Announces Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule
By: Markus Gerhard Speidel
The Biden Administration unveiled details regarding a forthcoming proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rule on Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission disclosures for major federal suppliers on November 10, 2022. Titled the “Federal Supplier Climate Risks and Resilience Rule,” the proposed FAR rule would impose emission disclosure... ›October 2022 Bid Protest Roundup: 'Late-Is-Late' Rule, Compensation Plans
By: Roke Iko
This month’s Bid Protest Roundup focuses on one recent Court of Federal Claims decision and two Government Accountability Office (GAO) decisions. These decisions involve (1) interpretations of the “late-is-late” rule, (2) past performance evaluation requirement under FAR 16.505, and (3) required evaluation of proposed... ›Deciphering the GAO’s Bid Protest Statistics for FY 2022
By: James A. Tucker
Each year around this time, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) publishes its annual report to Congress on bid protests. Earlier this week, the GAO published the report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. The following are the updated statistics at a glance, in the... ›U.S. Government Launches Billion-Dollar Biomedical Agency
By: Tina D. Reynolds
New Agency Sets Ambitious Goals to Transform Biomedicine and Health As part of the Biden Administration’s ongoing efforts to spur innovation and research, it has championed the creation of a new sub-agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Advanced Research Projects... ›EO 14042: OMB Guidance Keeps Enforcement on Hold “At This Time”
By: J. Alex Ward, Krista A. Nunez and Roke Iko
On October 19, 2022, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published its first set of interim guidance for agencies regarding the Federal Government’s enforcement of Executive Order 14042 (“EO 14042”). In addition to reaffirming the Federal Government’s decision not to enforce any contract... ›Executive Order 14042: Return of the Patchwork Preliminary Injunctions
By: J. Alex Ward, Joseph R. Palmore and Krista A. Nunez
On October 14, 2022, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (“Task Force”) published yet another update for Federal contractors regarding the Federal Government’s approach to enforcing Executive Order 14042 (“EO 14042”) in light of the “potential narrowing of the existing nationwide injunction on October 18, 2022,”... ›