Category Archives: Government Contracts

The concept of “timing is everything” applies to most things in life. With the rapid changes of government contracting law, the concept is particularly applicable to bid protests. Dellew Corporation was a long-time incumbent contractor for the Air Force.…

It is not often that a federal appellate court will write one of George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words” over a dozen times in a published legal opinion — often in all capital letters. However, in a US Court of…

American Apparel, Inc., along with Bluewater Defense, Inc. provides coats and other all-weather clothing to the United States Defense Logistics Agency under a government contract. The Agency wanted to purchase additional apparel not specifically listed in the contract via…

In an example of good intentions over common sense, the Army pulled a particularly hazardous, physical contract from an incumbent contractor, Systems Application & Technologies, Inc. (Sa-Tech), and gave it instead to a company with zero experience but promising…

Timing is everything in law.  In Plott Bakery Products, the government contractor complained that the Defense Logistics Agency failed to award her business a contract for their Meal, Ready-to-Eat Ration Program.  Unfortunately, she complained about items in the solicitation…

The only thing worse than losing a bid protest is losing because you waited too long to file — a lesson painfully learned by a disappointed government contractor. COMINT Systems Corp and EyeIT filed a bid protest against the…

A government contractor accused of supplying defective and non-conforming spare parts to the government appealed his criminal conviction on the basis that he was improperly extradited from Mexico. The indictment used to secure the extradition did not mention that…

The Washington Post reports that federal government spending has declined by 4% from the last fiscal year.  This amounts to $20 billion dollars.  This “savings” may really be due to the current administration’s preference to “in-source” programs.  Nonetheless, this…

The Department of Defense Unites States Special Operations Command (“USSOCOM”) awarded their Information Technology Service Management (“ITSM”) contract to Jacobs Technology, Inc. instead of IBM.  IBM complained that Jacobs had an “organizational conflict of interest” since it had been…

When the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) recommends that a government agency take “corrective action” in procurement by making changes to its selection criteria or process, the Court of Federal Claims will routinely adjudicate challenges to the proposed corrective action. …