This installment of our Law360 bid protest spotlight examines two protest decisions released in December, provides a year-end review of key bid protest decisions from 2019, and discusses a few takeaways from the U.S. Government Accountability Office‘s fiscal year 2019 report on its bid protest decisions. December Cases T3I Solutions, LLC, B-418034, B-418034.2, Dec. 13, ...›
Somewhat surprisingly, the end of 2019 provided two decisions regarding defective certifications, including one from the Federal Circuit. The first case, Kirlin Builders, LLC, ASBCA No. 61901, reminds readers that a defective certification, as opposed to no certification at all, is a correctable error so long as it is made before the issuance of a ...›
This installment of our monthly bid protest Law360 spotlight examines four protest decisions released in November 2019. In Inserso, GAO clarifies that a technical acceptability requirement is not equivalent to a lowest-price technically acceptable procedure. In Chromalloy, the Court of Federal Claims decided that the technical requirement of an intellectual property license from a third ...›
On Thursday, December 12, 2019, Morrison & Foerster Government Contracts practice Co-Chair Kevin Mullen will once again be a featured speaker at PubKGroup’s Annual Review 2019 webinar. The program will feature over 20 speakers from government, industry, and private practice to speak on the latest legislative and regulatory developments in contracts law. Kevin will moderate ...›
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its report on bid protest statistics for Fiscal Year 2019. As in past years, the GAO’s figures count supplemental protests by the same protester and other parties’ protests of the same procurement as separate cases. This means a few heavily challenged procurements can result in numbers that may ...›
This installment of our monthly bid protest Law360 spotlight examines three protest decisions released in October 2019. In the first decision, Akira Technologies, Inc. v. United States, COFC No. 19-1160C (Fed. Cl. Oct. 10, 2019), the Court of Federal Claims (COFC) concluded that it does not have jurisdiction to review task order modifications. In the ...›
Mark your calendars for MoFo’s third annual MoForward program, which will be held once again at the Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner, on November 5. For more details and to register, click here. MoFo partner Kevin Mullen and associate Jim Tucker will cover the latest developments in bid protests, a very popular topic on this blog. They ...›
This installment of our monthly bid protest Law360 spotlight examines three protest decisions released in September 2019. The first decision, ServeFed, Inc., B-417708, September 18, 2019, 2019 CPD ¶ ___, discusses the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) task-order jurisdiction. The second decision, Far North Forestry, LLC, B-417502.2, September 25, 2019, 2019 CPD ¶ ___, focuses on agency discretion ...›
The Department of Defense (DOD) has promulgated the final rule restricting DOD’s use of Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) acquisition methods. The final rule adopts, without any substantive changes, the proposed rule published last December and implements sections of the National Defense Authorization Acts for FY 2017 and 2018. The final rule can be found ...›
This installment of our monthly bid protest Law360 spotlight takes a look at three protest decisions from August, highlighting the most noteworthy aspects of the decisions for companies competing for contracts and agencies seeking procurement. The first examines the Government Accountability Office’s (“GAO”) decision to deny a protest challenging an agency’s decision to withhold proprietary data from prospective ...›