If an Agency Substantially Changes Contract Requirements, It Must Re-Compete the Contract

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 the “cardinal change” rule of government contracting, which states that where there is a significant change in the government’s quantity requirements on an existing contract, the agency is required to compete those requirements and may not simply modify an existing contract to fit the new needs.

See the full blog entry here.

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