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U.S. Navy Admiral Sentenced to Prison for Lying to Federal Investigators

by Shelley Hall | Sep 1, 2017 | Skyway CO Insight

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for lying to investigators to conceal his illicit 20-year relationship with Leonard Glenn Francis, the owner of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), the foreign defense contractor at the...

Does Kingdomware Affect SDVOSB Recertification Requirements?

by Shelley Hall | Aug 28, 2017 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

In their recent decision in Redhorse Corporation, SBA No. VET-263 (2017), SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) found that the Supreme Court’s Kingdomware decision does not affect the SBA’s SDVOSB eligibility regulation for multiple-award contracts. This...

US Court of Federal Claims calls an agency’s conduct an “Egregious Example of Intransigence and Deception”

by Shelley Hall | Aug 25, 2017 | Bids & Proposals, Skyway CO Insight

Most GAO and US Court of Federal Claims protest decisions are pretty dry and not very interesting to read. But every once in a while, they get pretty colorful in their opinions. Starry Associates, Inc. v. The United States and Intellizant, LLC, No. 16-44C (2017) is a...

August 2017 Federal Contracting Tidbits

by Shelley Hall | Aug 21, 2017 | Skyway CO Insight

Class Deviation 2017-O0006, Increased Micro-Purchased Threshold. DOD issued a memo implementing a class deviation that increases the micro-purchase threshold to $5,000 for DoD procurements and to $10,000 for DoD basic research programs. Presidential Executive Order...

What Constitutes a “Joint Employer”?

by Shelley Hall | Aug 18, 2017 | Bids & Proposals, Contract Administration, Skyway CO Insight

There have been a couple of recent cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (covers Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina) that provide the “test” (in those jurisdictions) to determine if two or more entities constitute...

Dem’s the Rules

by Steve Lucianetti | Aug 14, 2017 | Skyway CO Insight

Contracting with the federal government can be very complex and frustrating as many of you know. As a contracting officer for over 30 years, I have done tens of thousands of contract actions. When I was a contracting officer with the Defense Logistics Agency buying...

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