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The PCI Network – Character Traits for a Great Government Contracts Professional

by Steve Daoust | Jan 9, 2017 | FAR, Government Contracts Education, Offers/Protests, Subcontracting, The PCI Network

In this episode of The PCI Network, the head of our FUN with the FAR series, Stephen Daoust, discusses the four traits of a great government contracts professional. Throughout his 25-year career, Steve has worked as a Chief Government Contracts Counsel, Director of...

Myth No. 3: The Contracting Officer Really Isn’t Our Customer; the Program People Are.

by Timothy Sullivan, Partner, Thompson Coburn, LLP | Apr 28, 2014 | Government Contracts Education, Ten Myths of Government Contracting

*This post is the third in the ten part series, “Ten Myths of Government Contracting” and will be released weekly. Each week will introduce  a new myth and run for ten weeks.  One of the most significant differences between commercial contracting and...

Afterthoughts: Low Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA)

by Members & Staff | Dec 5, 2012 | Afterthoughts with Ralph Nash

Following each Nash & Schooner Hot Topics Webinar event, we interview Professor Ralph Nash to get his thoughts on the topic following the panel discussion. On November 29th, Professors Ralph Nash and Steve Schooner and Dean Dan Gordon discussed LPTAs.   What...

A Steady Drumbeat?

by Fred W. Geldon, Senior Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP | Nov 5, 2012 | Uncategorized

In every Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) bid protest decision, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that it will defer to the Contracting Officer (CO) – i.e., that it “will review the reasonableness of a contracting officer’s OCI investigation...

GSA Schedule Contract Disputes: Which Contracting Officer Decides?

by Garry Grossman, Principal, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC | Oct 2, 2012 | GSA

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals recently addressed the question of which contracting officer must decide disputes concerning GSA schedule contracts–the GSA CO or the Ordering Office CO.  FAR 8.406 says both.  It gives the CO from the Ordering Office (in...

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