The General Services Administration (GSA) has begun sending out email notifications of a “known glitch” affecting certain System for Award Management (SAM) registrations as far back as spring 2026.
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Lying Gets You Nowhere: GAO Dismisses Protest Built on Fabricated Facts
In Aim for AdVantage, LLC, GAO dismissed a protest as a sanction after finding that the protester had materially misrepresented the facts underlying its challenge to the rejection of its proposal. The protester claimed it had spent two hours
GAO Indicates Reasonable Conflict of Interest Investigation Must Include Inquiry of Involved Firm
The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent decision in Viderity Inc.—Costs, B-424422.5, Sept. 1, 2026, offers useful insight into what constitutes a legally sufficient conflict of interest investigation. The decision arose in an unusual procedural posture: Viderity initially protested,
State AG News: Deceptive Practices, Consumer Fraud, Environmental Policy (September 10-17, 2026)
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from September 10-17, 2026:
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Responding To State Packaging Law Uncertainty
In a recently published Law360 article, Crowell attorneys Stacey Geis, Juge Gregg, and Emily Werkmann examine the rapidly evolving legal landscape surrounding state packaging and recycling laws, analyzing the mounting wave of constitutional challenges to extended producer responsibility programs now
Responding To State Packaging Law Uncertainty
In a recently published Law360 article, Crowell attorneys Stacey Geis, Juge Gregg, and Emily Werkmann examine the rapidly evolving legal landscape surrounding state packaging and recycling laws, analyzing the mounting wave of constitutional challenges to extended producer responsibility programs now
Special Edition of the Fastest 5 Minutes
Focus on Congressional Investigations
This is a special edition focusing on congressional investigations and the risk for government contractors in today’s environment, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Jamie Bair. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly
New ISOO Guidance Directs Federal Agencies to Provide More CUI Guidance to Contractors
On September 2, 2026, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), through its Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), released two new Notices on the topic of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI): ISOO Notices 2026-07 and 2026-08.
August 2026 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month: Agency’s Rule of Two Set-Aside Determination Failed on Multiple Fronts
The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. In this series, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice keeps you up to date with a summary of one of the most notable bid protest sustain
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Cost & Pricing, Procurement Fraud, Small Business
This week’s episode covers a Pentagon directive on supplier cost and pricing, GSA’s announcement about suspected procurement fraud, a federal court ruling in the Anthropic case, a new class deviation overhauling Cost Accounting