NASA’s renewed focus on bringing engineering, scientific, operational, and mission-support functions in-house will create significant challenges for government contractors that have historically performed this work. For contractors supporting NASA centers and programs, insourcing may mean reduced contract scope, early contract termination, lost follow-on opportunities, or uncertainty about the future of existing work. Although agencies have
When a procuring agency accidentally hands one offeror its competitors’ pricing, the instinctive fix is to give everyone the same information. In Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) held that this approach does not cure the problem, and that an agency cannot rely on an awardee’s own statements to conclude that
Losing a federal contract because the government determined that your proposal was technically unacceptable can be frustrating — and potentially expensive. But an unfavorable technical evaluation does not necessarily mean that the agency got the procurement right. If your proposal was rejected as technically unacceptable, there are several issues you should examine promptly.
The Federal Circuit, in Island Creek Associates, LLC v. United States, No. 2025-1140 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 16, 2026), recently affirmed the dismissal of a bid protest brought by Island Creek Associates, LLC, a prime contractor on the Navy’s SeaPort-NxG multiple-award IDIQ contract (MAC). Tucked into the decision as an alternate basis for affirming
For a disappointed offeror, the first several days after receiving an award notice can be critical. Protest deadlines can be short, a debriefing can provide important information about the agency’s evaluation, and decisions made — or not made — during this period can affect the company’s ability to challenge the award.
The precise deadlines and
When an agency takes corrective action in response to a bid protest, it usually gets fairly broad deference on how to fix the problem. The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent decision in FusionEdge Solutions, LLC, B-423829.2, et al. (Aug. 27, 2026) is a reminder that deference has limits — and that an agency cannot
If an agency used AI to evaluate your proposal, can you see that report? A recent Court of Federal Claims decision says yes, even if the agency claims it didn’t rely on it.
During an evaluation, the government used an AI platform to review offerors’ proposals and then argued that those AI findings did not
Bradley has been publishing an ongoing survey of state-level bid protest processes and procedures (see e.g., our posts on “Bid Protests in Hawaii,” “Bid Protests in Missouri,” “Bid Protests in New Mexico,” “Bid Protests in North Carolina,” “Bid Protests in Florida,” and “Bid Protests
October 1 marks the beginning of the federal government’s new fiscal year and, for government contractors, the start of a new cycle of contracting, funding, and compliance activity. After the heightened procurement activity that often accompanies the September 30 fiscal year-end, contractors should use the beginning of the new fiscal year to assess their existing
In Battelle Memorial Institute, B-424575, et al. (Sept. 10, 2026), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest challenging an agency’s decision to credit an awardee with the prior experience and past performance of its corporate affiliate. The decision is a useful reminder for both offerors and agencies about what it