Aron Beezley, a partner in Bradley’s Government Contracts Practice Group, recently published a Law360 Expert Analysis article on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) decision in ARES Technical Services Corporation, B-415082.2, et al. (May 8, 2018). As discussed in the article, the GAO’s decision in ARES Technical Services Corporation provides a useful guide to GAO protesters in that it makes clear where they should (and should not) focus their “OCI waiver” challenges. As the article also discusses, the GAO’s decision is useful to agencies and intervenors in GAO protests, as it reinforces the reality that, in the OCI waiver context, agencies have a fairly low bar to clear before the GAO. Further, the GAO’s decision in this case is noteworthy in that it indirectly highlights the comparative lack of guidance by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on OCI waiver protests.
A complete copy of the article is available on the Law360 website. If you have any questions about any of the topics discussed in the article, or about any other related issues, please feel free to contact Aron Beezley.