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- Feed Preview Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Author at Government Contracts Legal Forum
U.S. Chamber Submits Comments on the FAR Council’s Proposed Rule Regarding Pay Transparency
On January 30, 2024, the FAR Council issued a proposed rule entitled “Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting” (“Proposed Rule”). The Proposed Rule would: (1) prohibit contract...
Nuziard v. Minority Business Development Agency: Another Blow To Federally Sponsored Affirmative Action Efforts
On March 5, 2024, a federal judge in Texas struck down a federally-sponsored racial preference extended to minority groups seeking to access capital and government contracts. Nuziard v. Minority...
Show Me the Money: Contractors and Subcontractors May Soon ...cy Requirements, Which May Also Trigger New Bid Protest Issues
Following a January 29, 2024 White House announcement and Fact Sheet, on January 30, 2024, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule)...
GAO’s First Sustain of 2024 Emphasizes the Need for Docum...sis of Offerors’ Proposals Against Solicitation Requirements
In its first published bid protest sustain decision of the new year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlights agencies’ obligation to adequately document a substantive analysis of ...
GAO’s 2022 Bid Protest Report to Congress for FY 2021 Shows Better than 50% Chance of Obtaining Relief
On November 1, 2022, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its Annual Report on Bid Protests for Fiscal Year 2022. While the number of protests GAO received dropped by 12% ...
DoD Issues Class Deviation For Small Business Joint Venture Offerors Until SAM Is Updated to Account for Recent FAR Revisions
On October 26, 2022, the Department of Defense published a class deviation establishing alternative procedures for verifying the small business size and status of joint venture offerors. This...
GAO Breathes New Life into the Commonly Denied “Failure to Award a Strength” Protest Ground
Challenging an agency’s failure to award a “strength” for a proposal feature can prove to be an exercise in futility. GAO frequently characterizes this oft-rejected argument as mere disag...
FAR Updated to Reflect Revised SBA Regulations
On September 23, 2022, the FAR Council issued a number of final rules amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to reflect changes previously implemented by the Small Business Administrat...
DOJ Announces First-Ever False Claims Act Settlement with PPP Lender and Creation of COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force Teams
On September 12, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever settlement with a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) lender. The lender, Prosperity Bank, agreed to pay $18,673....
Job Corps Center Prime Contractors Will Now be Subject to the Service Contract Act Requirements
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently announced in a July 29, 2022 Change Order notice that the Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) had revised the Field Operations Handbook (“FOH”) b...