Zach Prince

When the door from government-to-industry leads to a brick wall

A high-level military official negotiates with a contractor, leaves the government, and joins the contractor. Is it a conflict of interest? Depends.

Contracting

Who enforces software licenses when sold through reseller?

Technology

COVID-era contracting question continues to bedevil the government

Contracting

Why pricing and quantities go hand-in-hand for a fixed-price contract

Contracting

An award protest reaffirms: You’ve got to treat all bidders equally

Contracts/Awards

New source of tension emerges between contractors and DoD

Defense

Practical advice for contractors dealing with new cybersecurity rules

Cybersecurity

A messy dispute caught one company for millions of dollars of government refund demands

Contracting

Small Business Administration (SBA) building

Could the venerable 8(a) program actually be on its way out?

Workforce

The Defense Department clarifies how to use other transaction authority

Acquisition

It’s out, a procurement rule banning contractors from using TikTok

Cybersecurity

New federal acquisition rule would straighten out small business rights

The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council is out with a new proposed rule regarding small businesses. Specifically, it would align the FAR with the Small…

Acquisition Policy

A federal court reaffirms the government should look for commercial products before going custom

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency picked a systems integrator for a computer vision project. The integrator, CACI, started to develop a proprietary…

Technology

Defense claims against contractors have a shelf life of infinity

Contracting

Even when a claim against a federal contractor is dismissed, it never dies. Like a zombie, it can rise forth and bite you. That’s what a decade-plus dispute between Textron and the Defense Contract Management Agency shows