by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | May 5, 2020 | Formation-General, GSA, Offers/Protests, Proposals, Rules and Regulations
The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) recently ruled that the General Services Administration’s (“GSA”) use of a highest-technically rated, reasonably priced source selection method when establishing single-award blanket purchase agreements (“BPA’s) with...
by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Feb 4, 2020 | Mistakes, Offers/Protests, Proposals
In a more “normal” protest, an agency may make one or two mistakes that causes the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) to sustain the protest. But in a recent protest of a Department of Agriculture competition for information technology services, the agency made...
by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Jan 7, 2020 | Formation-General, Government Contracts Education, Proposals
The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (“ASBCA”) recently held that on a matter of contract interpretation, a prior course of dealing should be used in awarding a contractor its full claim on the requirements for personnel staffing. Fluor Federal Solutions,...
by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Mar 12, 2019 | Proposals
A recent Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) bid protest demonstrates how easy it is for an offeror to make a material misrepresentation in its proposal, resulting in a sustained protest and the loss of an award. Sev1Tech, Inc., B-416811, Dec. 18, 2018. Two...
by Richard D. Lieberman, Consultant | Dec 19, 2017 | Offers/Protests, Proposals
Do you think it is proper for an agency to eliminate a proposal from consideration under the following circumstances: Nothing in the evaluation criteria of the Request for Proposals (“RFP”) stated that proposals would be eliminated because they contained...
by Public Contracting Institute | Feb 1, 2017 | Government Contracts Education, Mistakes, Proposals, Small Business, The PCI Network
The next episode of The PCI Network is all about putting together a winning proposal. Lou Chiarella, Director and Faculty at PCI, shares three tips to help you craft a winning proposal. Mr. Chiarella is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. area with 20 years of...
