by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Sep 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
You may think that allowing offerors only 44 minutes to respond to a solicitation for quotations is too short a time, but the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) held that it was acceptable where emergency circumstances in connection with inclement weather... by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Sep 11, 2018 | Terminations
During the Civil War, at the famous Andersonville Prison, on the inside of the stockade and twenty feet from it, there was a deadline established, over which no prisoner was allowed to go, day or night, under penalty of being shot. By the 1900s, the word “deadline”... by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Sep 4, 2018 | Contract Disputes Act/Disputes/Courts/Boards of Contract Appeals
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals refused to dismiss appeals for lack of jurisdiction where the government had argued that the final decisions of the contracting officer were invalid because the decision’s basis for denying the claims purportedly was a... by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Aug 28, 2018 | Contract Disputes Act/Disputes/Courts/Boards of Contract Appeals
The rules of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (“ASBCA”) and the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (“CBCA”) require that within 30 days after the docketing of an appeal, the appellant [contractor] must file a complaint setting forth its claims in simple,... by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Aug 21, 2018 | Contract Disputes Act/Disputes/Courts/Boards of Contract Appeals
There is an interesting question of whether or not the Boards of Contract Appeals (as opposed to the Department of Labor, or DOL) have jurisdiction over certain matters involving the Service Contract Act, 41 U.S.C. Chapter 67. A recent case, Alcazar Trades, Inc., CBCA...