by Members & Staff | Jun 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Guest Author: Rodney L. Benson, Attorney, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC In recent solicitations, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has required offerors to provide an increased amount of information for CMS’s evaluation of potential...
by Garry Grossman, Principal, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Two offerors, Insight Systems Corp. (“Insight”) and Centerscope Technologies, Inc. (“Centerscope”) electronically submitted quotations in response to a USAID solicitation. The USAID’s computer server malfunctioned and failed to forward on...
by Ira E. Hoffman, Principal, Offit Kurman, P.A. and Director, The Public Contracting Institute | Apr 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
It is highly unusual for a scholarly paper on bid protests to generate excitement in the media, but Dan Gordon has triggered a virtual firestorm by finding, in a recent article, that “[i]t is rare for a protester to win a protest, and even rarer for a winning...
by Fred W. Geldon, Senior Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP | Mar 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
“When you know what you’re doing, you’re not intercepted.” – Johnny Unitas Johnny U. famously uttered those words in 1958, after leading the Baltimore Colts to victory in “The Greatest Game Ever Played.” Fifty-five years later the Baltimore-based Center for Medicare...
by David Newsome, Senior Legal Counsel, KBR | Feb 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Government contractors find themselves wearing many hats. They may serve as a prime contractor on one government contract and as a subcontractor to a prime contractor on another contract. When bidding as a prime contractor on a government contract, government...