by PCI Consultant | Jun 28, 2016 | DFARS Facts
The first part of Subpart 219.2 can function as a guide for small businesses working on DoD contracts for what they should expect the contracting agency to do, since it contains the standards to which the contracting agency will be held. DFARS 219.201. Because of the...
by PCI Consultant | Jun 28, 2016 | DFARS Facts
If a contractor and contracting officer wish to use a cost-plus-award-fee contract, they must refer to DFARS Part 216.405-2 and PGI 216.405-2. In the wake of allegations of contractors being paid unearned award fees, contractors must be particularly careful to follow...
by PCI Consultant | Jun 28, 2016 | DFARS Facts
Per DFARS Subpart 215.371-2, contracting officers must promote competition, especially in the context of receipt of only one offer. However, even if more than one offer is received, the prices offered are not automatically fair or reasonable. Thus, contracting...
by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Jun 28, 2016 | Claims and Remedies, Contract Disputes Act/Disputes/Courts/Boards of Contract Appeals, Subcontracting, Terminations
The Federal Circuit recently clarified that a contractor’s claim does not accrue until the exact amount (“sum certain”) of the claim is known to the contractor. Kellogg Brown & Root Serv., Inc. v. Murphy, No. 2015-1148 (Fed. Cir. May 18, 2016), 2016 WL 2893218....
by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Jun 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
For as long as this writer can remember, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has hewed to a hard and fast rule about amendments to solicitations: an offeror’s failure to acknowledge a material amendment makes the proposal (or bid) unacceptable and the...
