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FAR Employment Eligibility Verification
Synopsis: The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council (Councils) have agreed on a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to require certain contractors and subcontractors to use the E-Verify system...
Questionnaire for National Security Positions ↓ Download the pdf (~7MB) [note]this file has potential to have problems being parsed by the inline viewer[/note]
Protest Rights Expanded In Task Order Procurements
Synopsis: Protesting the award of a task or delivery order has always been a difficult proposition, but it is now possible for orders exceeding $10 million. Previously, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 ("FASA") provided...
Computer Sciences Corporation; Unisys Corporation; Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Inc., IBM Business Consulting Services-Federal, B-298494.2, et al., May 10, 2007, 2007 CPD ¶ 103
Synopsis: On behalf of Unisys Corporation, successfully protested awards of "Encore II" contracts by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) estimated to have a maximum value of $12.225 billion. The GAO found that the agency's exchanges...
Synopsis: Defense of Pearson Government solutions award of a $450 million contract for Contact Center Operations awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
SBA Introduces New Changes to its Size Regulations
Synopsis: New SBA Regulations Impacting the Time at which Size is Determined for Purposes of Long-Term Federal Contracts and Following a Novation, Merger, or Acquisition for all Federal Contracts.
Multimax, Inc., et al., B-298249.6, et al., Oct. 24, 2006, 2006 CPD ¶ 165
Synopsis: Successful protest of the awards of multi-year, multi-billion-dollar indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts by the Army to competitors of Multimax.
Latest DOHA Guidance on Smith Amendment Case Procedures
Synopsis: There is a new protocol for dealing with Smith Amendment cases, which apply if you have been convicted of a crime and were sentenced and served more than a year in prison.
Synopsis: DOHA is now operating under new guidelines for security clearance adjudications. The new adjudicative guidelines appear to ease the burdens of applicants in several different guidelines, including those under Guideline B.
