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Category: Acquisition news and analysis

Acquisition

Chaedrol’s experience securing SBA approval for 8(a) disadvantage statement

Jason Lee Bakke,
September 18, 2023September 19, 2023

SBA is now asking 8(a) businesses to provide their disadvantage statements via Certify, launching a gold-rush of spam-quality “consultants” who have never written an approved disadvantage statement pushing their wares for a healthy fee. Chaedrol’s statement was recently approved. Here’s our experience.

Acquisition NASA 136MC Ambiguity Resolver circular slide rule 12-inch (circular slide rule (astronautical))

Another offeror’s win dreams dashed by a patent ambiguity: GAO protest

Jason Lee Bakke,
June 15, 2023June 19, 2023

In Correct Solutions, LLC (B-421533) before GAO, an RFP’s patent ambiguity foiled an offeror bidding a telecom contract.

Acquisition Perfume Bottle - Avon, Blue With Gold Swirl Lid, circa 1950-1980

A Blue & Gold case provides an opportunity to define B&G

Jason Lee Bakke,
May 26, 2023August 26, 2023

A recent appeals court decision on an offeror’s waiver of Blue & Gold provides an opportunity to review what its rule means for offerors bidding on federal contracts. Blue & Gold is used as a term-of-art for the rule that an offeror must protest a patent ambiguity, as opposed to a latent ambiguity, prior to contract award. Without this rule, offerors could either protest preaward or “save” their patent-ambiguity protest until after they learned the award decision (and presumably had lost).

Acquisition

House to OMB: Track obligations to businesses owned by military spouses

Jason Lee Bakke,
May 24, 2023May 25, 2023

A somewhat-bipartisan group of House members have written a letter to OMB requesting the following:…

Acquisition crop businessman giving contract to woman to sign

A streamlined approach to streamlining GSA Schedule fee payment processes

Jason Lee Bakke,
May 17, 2023May 17, 2023

As I write this, it’s the end of another government fiscal quarter, which starts a…

Acquisition A damn

Protest lessons on responsiveness, responsibility, and standing

Jason Lee Bakke,
April 6, 2023May 24, 2023

Thalle/Nicholson Joint Venture v United States, a Court of Federal Claims protest, provides a good review of standing and responsibility in federal contract protests and awards.

Acquisition

Halved and quartered: Federal contractor reporting for April 2023

Jason Lee Bakke,
April 2, 2023April 3, 2023

This is a regular reminder to federal contractors that a government fiscal quarter just ended. Therefore mandatory reports are due.

Acquisition Statute outside DOL

New Labor portal live for mandatory EEO-1 equal employment reports

Jason Lee Bakke,
April 2, 2023May 24, 2023

Most companies have a June deadline to file EEO-1 report, as required by the Department of Labor.

Acquisition

Proposed rule allows counting of lower-tier subcontracting against primes’ plans

Jason Lee Bakke,
March 17, 2023May 24, 2023

The Small Business Administration has proposed a rule to count lower-tier subcontracting against primes’ socioeconomic goals. So, rather than counting socioeconomic subcontracting amounts at the first-tier only, primes could take credit for subs further down the supply chain, that is, the subcontractors of subcontractors.

Acquisition

The L-1011 TriStar ended Lockheed’s commercial dreams

Jason Lee Bakke,
February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

The L-1011 TriStar first flew November 1970 and was Lockheed’s brief foray into the passenger-jet market.

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