By Julia Coon, The General Services Administration (GSA) has been in the process of shutting down the legacy 72A Reporting System and transitioning all Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts to the new FAS Sales Reporting Portal (SRP). The transition is expected to be completed by the end of this calendar year. Several contractors completed their… Read more »
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CPARS: It’s a Ratings Game
By Angel N. Davis, As a government contractor, you should understand that the Contractor Performance Assessment Report (CPAR) may very well be a predictor of how your organization might fair with future business opportunities. But don’t panic; having a better understanding of the ratings and the value of the CPAR will help you to develop a… Read more »
FAC 2019-02 Issued
By Wayne Simpson, CFCM, CSCM In the Monday, May 6, 2019, edition of the Federal Register, the Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) issued Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2019-02, which covers several final rules implementing two Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) cases, and a… Read more »
Women-Owned Small Business Set-Asides Remain Only Small Percentage of Overall Federal Contracts
By Heather Mims, Esq. On April 15, 2019, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) publicly published a report regarding the Women-Owned Small Business Program (WOSB) at the request of Congress. The report identified several oversight deficiencies with the WOSB program. Overall, despite an increase of more than two million women-owned firms between 2007 and 2012, agencies… Read more »
Centre Law & Consulting Welcomes Jonathan S. Spaeth as a Partner
TYSONS, Va., — Centre Law & Consulting, a law firm specializing in the unique needs of federal government contractors, is pleased to welcome Jonathan S. Spaeth as a partner and Chief Operating Officer. Jon brings Centre not only outstanding litigation skills but also an extraordinary understanding of business strategy from his unique blend of law… Read more »
Service Contractors Beware: Changes To FLSA “Salary Exempt” Status Coming (Yet Again)
By David Warner Almost exactly four years ago, Centre issued a blog post regarding the status of the Obama Administration’s effort to revise the standards for determining whether an employee may be “exempt” for purposes of entitlement to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Ultimately, the Obama DOL issued regulations that would have… Read more »
More GSA Changes! Out with DUNS Number and in with SAMMI Number
By Maureen Jamieson, On March 18, 2019, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced that Ernst and Young LLP (EY) was awarded a one-year base and four option period, $41.8 million contract for entity validation services for the federal award process. Entity validation services are critical because the federal government must validate the identity of… Read more »
Getting “Real” – Agency’s Inadequate Price Realism Evaluation Supports Protest
By Hon. Jack Delman In Apogee Engineering, LLC, 2019 CPD 85, 2019 WL 927366 (February 21, 2019), the GAO recently sustained a protest, due to, among other things, the agency’s failure to show that it performed an adequate price realism evaluation as required by the RFP. The Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary of… Read more »
Billion Dollar Task Order Protest Sustained Due to Price Determination
By Tyler Freiberger, One of the most common frustrations in preparing bid protests for government contractors is the feeling that protests centered on stark price differences are dead on arrival due to the vague nature of “price reasonableness evaluations” and the seemingly infinite deference a federal agency has on that determination. However, as shown in… Read more »
Best Practices for Best In Class Contract Management
By Angel N. Davis, Once upon a time, most Government Contracting firms were small. As we all know, growing a business is no small achievement and requires a tremendous amount of perseverance, hard work and a dedicated team focused on delivering exceptional products and services to your customers. Building It Government Contracting businesses have the potential… Read more »
