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Women-Owned Small Businesses and Sole Source Contracts

February 11, 2016 By Jessica Sharron

President Obama’s administration has made it a priority to meet the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) prime and subcontracting goals, which include metrics relating to the percentage of government contracts awarded to small businesses, women-owned small businesses (WOSB), small disadvantaged businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses, and historically underutilized business zones. Although in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 government agencies met or exceeded their prime contracting goals for small businesses in general, they did not achieve their goals for WOSBs. One way to [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients Tagged With: Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Defense Authorization Act, Regulatory Secretariat Division, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), Small Business Administration (SBA), Sole Source Award, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB)

Proposed Rule Requires Prime Contractor to Report Late or Reduced Payments to Small Business Subcontractors

January 25, 2016 By Andrew Howard

On January 20, 2016, the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and NASA issued a proposed rule to amend the FAR and implement a section of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010. This proposed rule, which will implement Section 1334 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 and the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) implementation of Section 1334, requires that, among other things, a prime contractor (1) notify the contracting officer, in writing, if the contractor makes a reduced or untimely payment to a small business subcontractor; and (2) disclose the reasons for the reduced [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients Tagged With: Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Payments, Prime Contractor, Small Business Administration (SBA), Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, Subcontracting Plans, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

Federal Agencies Cannot Immunize Themselves with Short Termination Windows in Contracts

January 15, 2016 By Jeffrey Belkin

In Springfield Parcel C, LLC v. United States, 124 Fed. Cl. 163 (Ct. Fed. Cl. 2015), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims considered the post-award protest of a contract by an unsuccessful offeror. The unsuccessful offeror was protesting the award of a real estate contract to lease new headquarters for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) offered by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The protestor, Springfield Parcel C, LLC, sought an injunction of the award to Eisenhower Real Estate Holdings, LLC, on the basis that the GSA’s award was unlawful. Springfield, Eisenhower, and [...]Read more

Filed Under: Bid Protests & Public Contract Award-Related Representations Tagged With: Administrative Protest, Bid Protest, Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Impresa Construzioni Geom. Domenico Garufi v. United States, Post-Award, Springfield Parcel C LLC v. United States, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

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