Happy Friday! You’ve made it through another week, and your reward is the Week in Review. This week saw some interesting stories: VA is getting a new top watchdog, there is a new budget proposal, and GAO is highlighting over $100M in potential savings from consolidating IT systems. You can read more about these topics in the articles below. Have a great weekend!
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Happy Friday and Happy Mother’s Day weekend! Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate the incredible strength, love, and dedication that mothers show every day. Take a moment to say thank you, share a memory, or simply let her know how much she means.
This week in federal government contracting news included stories about the upcoming federal budget and updates to the National Defense Strategy.
Continue readingFor small business set-aside contracts, including socioeconomic set-asides like the 8(a) program, a federal contractor must meet the SBA’s size standards. These size standards vary by industry and solicitation and are based on either average annual receipts or the number of employees. But size alone doesn’t tell the whole story. Many small businesses are surprised to learn that they could be deemed affiliated with other entities based on factors such as ownership, management, family relationships, or subcontracting. If the SBA finds companies affiliated, it will combine the receipts or employees of the various companies, which can disqualify a company from small business programs.
In this training, you will learn:
Whether you’re new to federal contracting or looking to grow your small business through set-aside opportunities or partnering with small businesses, this session will give you the tools to know about small business size standards, affiliation, and positioning your company to play by these rules.
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Happy May, SmallGovCon readers! Welcome to the Week in Review. We are entering the end of the school year for those with kiddos, a time when we all start dreaming of those summer vacations, right on the horizon. But in federal contracting, there were a number of interesting updates. These included a request from OMB for patience as it rolls out changes, and a GSA launch of its “OneGov” strategy to streamline how goods and services are procured. Have a great weekend!
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Happy Friday! April is almost over and it’s time to get out there and star mowing those lawns! We have had quite a bit of rain here in the Midwest so the grass is growing pretty fast right now. We hope you have a wonderful weekend and can get outside to enjoy the Spring weather.
This week in federal government contracting news included updates on staff reorganizations, rewriting of the procurement rules, and use of commercial solutions.
Continue readingFor a few weeks now, we have looked at a recent Court of Federal Claims (COFC) decision in two parts regarding the duty of good faith and fair dealing. In the first part, we observed how insistence on the terms of a contract is not a breach of good faith and fair dealing. In the second part, we discussed several separate considerations ranging from a decision to not move a project forward to the next phase to rejection of a claim of a government cabal. Now, we will conclude our look at this decision with the court’s review of the SBIR/STTR policy directive and its impact on the case.
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Week in Review. It’s been a busy week in the federal government contracting world and the attorney-authors at SmallGovCon are striving to provide you with the latest updates. Some key stories from this week include executive orders on massive procurement reform (read our summary here) and the push for commercial IT solutions, to ongoing agency-level budget tightening, it’s been a wild ride. Have a great weekend!
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