Category Archives: Government Contracts

Despite being the most expensive of four bidders, a contractor bidding to install fiber optic cable in Jordan wins its bid protest. This case is a lesson on the use of subcontractors in a small business set-aside contract. A…

We are often asked if pursing a bid protest is worth the time, effort, and money. Obviously, the disposition of any case depends on the facts and circumstances of each case. However, as Newsday today reported, it costs on…

Two government contractors entered into a Teaming Agreement for the purpose of working together towards securing a prime contract from the Federal government. The companies, Information Experts, Inc. (“IE”) and Cyberlock Consulting, Inc. (“Cyberlock”), successfully put forward a persuasive…

Here is another win for small-business contractors from the Court of Federal Claims. In an effort to save its contract from a small-business set-aside for which it was ineligible, an incumbent contractor, Dynamic Educational Systems, Inc., (“Dynamic”) filed a…

A government agency took corrective action in a series of incremental steps over the course of many months to address a contractor’s pre-award bid protests. (“Corrective action” means that the agency fixes the problems of which the protester complains).…

This case is a good checklist for contractors upset at being left out of a sole source procurement. Innovation Development Enterprises of America, Inc. (IDEA) complained that the United States Air Force violated the Competition in Contracting Act when…

Who says that government contract law is not fun? While it is not common for a federal judge to cite Lewis Carroll’s, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a bid protest decision, it is not common for the United States…

If the law requires competitive bidding for a government contract, and an agency designates a contract as one for small businesses only, does the removal of large businesses from the contracting pool itself render the solicitation non-competitive? The Court…

A government contractor wins its second bid protest in a row at the Court of Federal Claims. In this latest instance, it won because the agency, the Army, failed to document its evaluation and came across to the Court…

Your Recruiting Company, Inc. (“YRC”) and Golden Key Group, L.L.C. had once been in a joint venture together. As is common in such relationships, they agreed to share proprietary data, subject to a nondisclosure agreement. Subsequently, both companies bid…