All, as a caveat, I am on the other side, I am a contract specialist for the government. I have the current contractor working on a government task order for engineering services under a ID/IQ. The task order is up for recompete. The twist comes when the contractor has gathered data, (not a specified deliverable), that was requested after the fact by the government, (but never identified in writing). Now the contractor says they have all the rights to the data, which gives them a definite advantage for future efforts. However, since the data was collected through the use of this task order, on government time, money, and resources, does not the government own this data regardless of whether it was a spelled-out deliverable?
Thank you for any help?Steve