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Bid Protests
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Government Contracts Legal Forum
September 2026 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month: When a Help Desk BPA Is Used to Order Full Network Operations, GAO Says No
By Cherie Owen
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…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
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GSA & AI, Anthropic, Bid Protests This week’s episode covers GSA’s clause on AI procurements, a Hill letter involving government contractors, a new Anthropic ruling, a memorandum proposing changes to…
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The AI Paper Trail: What Federal Contractors Can Challenge
Federal agencies’ growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in procurement is opening a new front in bid protests. In Trax International Corp., No. 26-796 (Fed. Cl. Sept. 22, 2026), a…
Government Contracts Law
Not a Model of Clarity: GAO Takes Its First Hard Look at Solicitations That Mix the Old FAR with the New
If you have opened a federal solicitation this year and felt like you were reading two rulebooks stapled together, you were not imagining it. Since the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)…
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Protests Involving Exclusivity Language in Key Personnel Commitment Letters
When submitting key personnel resumes and information with their proposals, offerors must have a reasonable basis to expect that the proposed personnel will perform on the subsequently awarded contract. In…
Infra Insight Blog
Loose Lips Sink Procurements for Spaceships
By Josh Burke
During a procurement, public agencies must balance the desire to provide offerors with detailed information against the need to ensure that information is accurate and fairly distributed. Providing offerors with…
The Federal Government Contracts & Procurement Blog
The Protest Clock May Start Sooner Than You Think in a FAR 8.4 Procurement: GAO Dismisses Untimely FSS Protest in Hendall Inc.
By Evan Williams, David O'Neill
GAO’s bid protest timeliness rules are strict. Even a strong protest can be dismissed if it is not filed within the deadline established by GAO regulations. In certain procurements, required…
SmallGovCon
GovCon FAQs: How Do I Protest an FAA Acquisition at ODRA?
By Jordan Akins
In the world of bid protests, GAO gets some of the spotlight because there are so many protests filed there. COFC seems to get plenty of attention because of the…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Federal Circuit Resolves Court Split Over IDIQ Awardee Standing
By Issac Schabes, Cherie Owen, Christian Curran
When an agency conducts a multiple-award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) competition, successful awardees often wonder whether they can protest the agency’s award to other companies at the U.S. Court…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
August 2026 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month: Agency’s Rule of Two Set-Aside Determination Failed on Multiple Fronts
By Cherie Owen
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…