This section provides useful news and resources such as links to information and assistance sites for legal matters, articles published by Cohen Mohr attorneys, representative cases, and various policies and procedures relevant to our practice areas.
Successful appeal and reversal of determination that appellant was an ineligble small business because a joint venture between an 8(a) protege concern and its mentor was majority owned by the mentor.
GAO Permits Task Order Protests Under $10 Million In Civilian Agency Contracts – At Least for Now
Synopsis: In a major ruling on June 14, 2011, the Government Accountability Office significantly expanded the range of task orders that are subject to protest.
Synopsis: On July 8, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security announced that new rules amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) with respect to the use of the government's E-Verify system will go into effect as currently...
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.
