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The Power of Govt Contracting

December 2nd, 2015
Government Contracts Transforms Small, Family-Owned Biz into Wealth-Making Machine Question: How do you take a small, family-owned landscaping company and grow into a Multi-Million Dollar, Multi-Generational, Wealth-Creating Business? Answer: Governm… Read More
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Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: construction contracts, Family-owned business, government contractors, government contracts, minority-owned business, small business, State Contracts

CVE Wrong for All the Right Reasons on SDVOSB Protest

October 31st, 2014
Contributor: Carl A. Gebo
With daily reports of indictments and guilty pleas of individuals and companies that have improperly obtained federal government contracts that were set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs”), giving the VA’s… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: "involuntary withdrawal", 819.307, affiiation, AmBuild, AmBuild Company LLC, apparent award, appeal, awardee, awardees, Center of Verification and Evaluation, COFC, control, CVE, decertification, decertified, Department of Justice, Department of Veterans Affairs, DOJ, due process, Executive Director, Fed.Cl., Final Determination, financial assistance, fraudulent, government contracts, ineligible, investigation, notice, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business, Office of the Inspector General, OIG, Operating Agreement, opportunity, OSDBU, ownership, procedural, protest, protest basis, protest file, protest grounds, protest record, SDVOSB, Service-Disabled Veteran, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, set aside contracts, set-aside, status, totality of the circumstances, unconditional ownership, United States Court of Federal Claims, VA, VAAR, VAMC, verified, Veterans Affairs Medical Center

No-Damage-For-Delay Clause Too Broad To Be Enforceable Against Government Contractor

August 31st, 2014
Contributor: Carl A. Gebo
Zachary Construction Corporation (“Zachary”) won a public construction contract to build a wharf for the Port of Houston Authority of Harris County, Texas (the “Port”). The contract gave Zachary sole control of the manner in w… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: active interference, bad faith, breach of contract, construction contracts, construction delays, construction means, construction methods, damages, delay, direct interference, fault, government construction contracts, government contractor, government contracts, negligence, no damage for delay clause, precedence, public policy grounds, Supreme Court of Texas, unenforceable

Proposed Amended Rule Tightens the Noose on Pass-Through Contracts

July 31st, 2014
Instead of making a contract award to a company that is planning on subcontracting out more than 70% of the work, the Government is going to require its Contracting Officers to stop and see if there’s a better way to do business. Outstanding! On Ju… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: CO, Contracting Officers, delivery orders, Department of Defense, DOD, FAR 15.404, FAR Part 19, Federal Acquisition Regulation, federal government agencies, General Services Administration, government contract award, government contracts, GSA, NASA, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, NDAA for FY 2013, NDAA for FY 2014, Pass-Through Contracts, pass-through review and justificaition, review and justificiation, Small Business Programs, subcontractors, task orders, USAID

SBA Amends Regulations to Remove Dollar Amount Limitations on WOSB Program

May 30th, 2013
In May, the Small Business Administration issued an interim final rule amending its regulations to implement changes to the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program as a result of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA 201… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: Contracting Officers, EDWOSB, government contracts, government-wide contracting goals, NDAA for FY 2013, SBA, set aside contracts, WOSB

VA to Provide Preliminary Finding of Eligibility Determination of VOSB Status

March 30th, 2013
Contributor: Carl A. Gebo
In early March, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a new step to the speed up eligibility determinations of veteran-owned small business (VOSB) under the VA’s “Veterans First” contract program. As the VA announcement noted,… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: comprehensive review, counselors, eligibility, government contracts, minor deficiencies, preliminary findings, SDVOSB, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, submissions, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA, verification, verification-assistance, Veterans First, VOSB

GAO Confirms Need for Sole-Source 8(a) Justification Guidance at DoD

February 28th, 2013
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued the results of its performance audit of the U.S. Department of Defense’s implementation of a new requirement for written justifications of sole-source contracts over twenty million dollars… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: 8(a), DOD, GAO, Government Accountability Office, government contracts, justification, National Defense Authoritization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, NDAA for FY 2010, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, OFPP, SBA, sole-source, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Small Business Administration

Final Rule Issued Extending Prohibition on Contracting with Inverted Domestic Corporations to Fiscal Year 2012 Appropriated Funds

January 31st, 2013
Contributor: Carl A. Gebo
The Department of Defense, General Services Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have issued a file rule adopting, without changes, an interim rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that prohibits the… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: appropriated funds, Department of Defense, DOD, FAR, FAR 9-108-1, foreign entity, General Services Administration, government contracts, GSA, inverted domestic corporation, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Agency Proposes Regulatory Revisions to CAS Exemptions for Acquisitions of Commercial Items

November 30th, 2012
Contributor: Carl A. Gebo
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) Board have published proposed rules to clarify CAS exemptions for contracts or subcontracts related to the acquisition of commerci… Read More
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Categories: Recent Developments
Tags: CAS, CAS exemptions, commercial item acquisition, commercial items, exemptions, government contracts, OFPP, OMB

Recent Developments

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) needs more Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs) for its CIO-Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) Small Business Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). Because a number of prior awardees… Read More

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GCARL started the year off with a victorious bang for a client, Alpha Transcription, in a “Bet the Company” protest. If Alpha Transcription lost it could have been devastating for them. The Transcription Services Industry and Market is hi… Read More

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