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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
