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 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 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 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 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 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.