Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) RFQs Must Be Conducted Fairly
In his most recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch discusses a case where an agency set forth specific requirements in its RFQ, but then accepted a low price offer that didn’t meet all of the requirements. Protest, sustained. See the […]
ANC-Affiliated Small Businesses Can’t Always Rely on Big Brother for Past Performance
In a recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch discusses a case where an agency eliminated a JV from competition when it tried to rely on the past performance of the ANC affiliate of the small business JV partner rather than […]
Corrective Action Might Not Help
In a recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch discusses a case where an agency took corrective action in response to a valid protest of a contract award. The problem was, the corrective action didn’t actually help out the protesting […]
Increased Competition is Sufficient Justification to Cancel an RFP
In a recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch discusses a case where the sole bidder on a task order RFP was not acceptable to an agency, so the agency canceled the RFP in order to reissue a less restrictive RFP in order […]
Complicated RFPs Result in Protests
In his most recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch discusses a case where an overly complicated RFP invited a protest from a losing offeror. See the full blog entry here. Share on email Share on facebook Share on google Share on twitter You […]
Who Holds the Clearance May Not Matter
In his most recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch discusses a case where a prime contractor relied on one of its subcontractors to provide a cleared facility that met the requirements of an RFP. The GAO agreed that this was sufficient. See […]
MWL Partner Bill Welch on In Depth with Francis Rose on Federal News Radio
Did you miss hearing MWL partner Bill Welch on In Depth with Francis Rose on Federal News Radio discussing the recent case where an agency made a price realism evaluation of offerors who dropped their prices following learning of the price offered from the winning offeror in connection with various protests? Don’t worry… you can check out the podcast here. Mr. Rose […]
Price Realism is Alive and Well
In his most recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch follows up on a line of cases he discussed previously (see here). In this most recent update, Bill examines how an agency made a price realism evaluation of offerors who dropped their prices following […]
Sometimes a Best Value Procurement Still Results in a LPTA Award (Part 2)
In his most recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch discusses a case where a protesting contractor complained that an agency did not place enough value on the contractor’s past performance in awarding a contract to a competitor with a price that was […]
Proposal Receipt Is Your Own Responsibility
In a recent blog post for “Battle Lines”, his weekly guest blog for the Washington Business Journal, FedBiz Daily Section, MWL partner Bill Welch reviews a case where an agency apparently failed to receive a number of proposal submissions, but the GAO did not consider this a systemic failure and instead placed the responsibility on the bidding companies […]