The Wifcon Blog

The General Services Administration (GSA) has about 19,000 Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts.  About 80 percent are contracts with small businesses.  Last year, GSA proposed terminating thousands of small business contracts for not meeting the $25,000 annual sales threshold.  Apparently, GSA forgot to pay the contractors something--$2,500....

I was reading a decision of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) about a week ago and I found the following.Why read the ASBCA decision when I could go straight to the horse's mouth!  So I searched the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) web site and I found the Sharp decision--and it was recent.  Here is a brief descri...

We've all seen this before.  The government and contractor sign a contract with a base period and several 1-year options.  Sometimes, the 1-year option periods even mirror the government's fiscal year.  A nice little puppy.  Then, the harsh realities of government take over and our little puppy grows into an unwieldy mongrel.  Such is life in fede...

On April 26, 2007, the Army awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, fixed price, job-order contract to Lakeshore Engineering Services, Inc., for repair, maintenance, and construction services at Fort Rucker, Alabama.  Lakeshore performed 79 construction delivery orders in the base year and 74 construction delivery orders in the first option...

In the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a recent opinion was issued in which 3 hospitals wanted to avoid being labled as government subcontractors to avoid the Department of Labor's rules covering subcontractors.  The hospitals had contracts with UPMC Health Plan to provide medical services and supplies to individuals enrolled in its...

" . . . was on the take. At the New Mexico Department of Corrections she was responsible for selecting the best contractors to perform maintenance work for the State. Instead and bypassing any public bidding process, she awarded about $4 million in contracts to . . . over the course of three years -- receiving about $237,000 in return from ....

H. R. 882, the Contracting and Tax Accountability Act of 2013  passed  the House of Representatives on April 15, 2013.    The bill would lead to a nice amount of paperwork, new criteria for determining contractor responsibility, and opportunity for debarment.    A copy of the bill, as reported from committee, is here .

In 2010, the U.S. Central Command's Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, had a requirement  for security services to facilitate investment and commerce in Iraq.  This blog entry deals with the 2 competitive solicitations and contracts that led to a case before the Court of Federal Claims (COFC).  Unfortunately for Tigerswan, the awardee o...

The government has plenty of rules involving time.  In certain circumstances, an offeror has 10 days to submit a protest.  On the other end of the process, contractors have so much time to submit a claim or to respond to a contracting officer's final decision.  Here is one case involving time limits:     On April 26, 2012, EPSI submitted a certified c...

The Army plans to develop and procure a new Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) that will do two things:  1) operate as a combat vehicle and 2) transport soldiers onto the battlefield. The GCV would replace the current Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles.  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) believes that implementing the GCV program would cost $29 billion...