DLA drew a protest of its procurement to outsource purchasing, warehousing, and financing for more than 58,000 parts, including screws, nuts, bolts, and adhesives (Sci.…
With all the (negative) attention the development of the F-35 and the KC-46 draws, the Air Force’s announcement its sixth-gen fighter “has come so far that the full-scale flight demonstrator has already flown in the physical world” and has “broken a lot of records in the doing” per service acquisition chief Will Roper caught me off-guard.
Here’s a smack in the face to all the faux-fixed-price contract holders out there: the Court of Federal Claims found the government was within its…
Please check out this fascinating Venable blog post that examines cases where the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has “during the pendency of the protest,…
The Seattle Times’ excellent Dominic Gates notes that Boeing will move 787 production entirely to South Carolina from Everett, Washington, in mid-March of 2021, rather…
GAO has limited authority to hear protests of orders under IDIQ contracts, granted by the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 that laid the groundwork…
To the surprise of no one, Jason Miller goes deep over at FedNewsRadio on complaints that GSA’s pricing negotiations for labor category rates are often…
The Service Contract Act prevents the government from depressing wages in a location through its disproportionate buying power. The act sets alternate “minimum wages” that…
Trump issued an executive order rescinding the Obama-era “executive Order 13495 of January 30, 2009 (Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts), which requires that successor…
In the heat of summer, you may have missed the SBA’s inflation adjustments to the various size standards. Please note this is not the recently…