SmallGovCon

JUNE 6, 2025

Agencies get a lot of discretion when it comes to evaluating proposals. We’ve explored several different cases where GAO affirmed this principle. However, this principle is not absolute. Contrary to what some might think, there are limits on an agency’s discretion when it comes to how it evaluates proposals. Recently, the Air Force was reminded of this fact in a GAO protest concerning a price evaluation.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 6, 2025

On June 3, Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom spoke about the need for the country to offer whistleblower awards to corporate insiders during a debate on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). The head of the SFO, Nick Ephgrave has repeatedly stated his interest in offering whistleblower awards in a way modeled off the highly successful whistleblower programs in the United States.

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USFCR

JUNE 6, 2025

The HUBZone program is one of the most overlooked shortcuts to winning federal contracts. It gives small businesses a competitive edge by reserving billions in set-aside awards for companies located in historically underutilized areas. If your business qualifies, this is a rare chance to compete in a smaller pool for guaranteed dollars. What does HUBZone mean?

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals said the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must pay an oxygen equipment supplier more than $133,000 in delivery fees, finding no support for the agency's position that the fees are limited to "one-time or one-off type" deliveries.

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Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies a multiple award contract with a total value of $1.99 billion for construction services in the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, or NAVFAC, Southeast area of responsibility.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest to a $44.3 million task order the U.S. Navy issued for engineering and installation services for a new U.S. Space Command facility in Colorado, saying it reasonably weighed proposals two Georgia companies submitted.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

A South Carolina company that challenged a $215 million task order for IT support services the U.S. Navy awarded to another firm failed to show the Navy botched its evaluation and comparison of their competing proposals, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found in a decision released Friday.

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GovLoop

JUNE 6, 2025

Government employees make ample use of cell phones, tablets, laptops, wireless printers and other mobile endpoints that connect to agency networks from locations near and far. The devices improve access and efficiency and can make workers more productive. But faced with a dramatic increase in nation-state and other cyber threats, agencies have come to realize that these off-premises devices are a significant vulnerability.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 6, 2025

Qualifying U.S. government agencies can now issue task orders to critical metal and materials provider IperionX for the supply of titanium components and parts under a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Army that called for the research and development of low-cost domestic titanium for defense applications.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 6, 2025

Interview transcript: Terry Gerton: You were one of eight former political leaders at [Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] who signed a letter objecting to the proposed OPM rule establishing the policy career schedule for civil servants. Tell me what motivated you to get engaged in that or what motivated all of you to sign that letter. Bob Perciasepe: Well, I think it’s important to note that the letter we sent, of course, we’re a subset of everybody, we were folks from the Enviro

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 6, 2025

Some of the winners of WashingtonExec’s 2025 Chief Officer Awards. WashingtonExec on June 4 unveiled the winners of the 2025 Chief Officer Awards , its premier recognition of the executives shaping the future of government contracting. This year, we combined two signature ceremonies into one can’t-miss event celebrating bold, innovative leaders across government and industry.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 6, 2025

London International Disputes Week (“LIDW”) 2025 commenced with International Arbitration Day on 2 June 2025. The opening event, hosted by Linklaters LLP, featured a keynote address by Kevin Nash , Director General of the London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”), followed by a panel of in-house counsel discussing best practices and jurisdictional insights in international arbitration, which this post proposes to summarise.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JUNE 6, 2025

On 3 June 2025, Baker McKenzie kicked off its Annual Compliance Conference Webinar Series with a session focusing on the evolving customs and tariffs landscape under the new U.S. administration. The panel, chaired by Jenny Revis, featured our global experts who unpacked a number of recent sweeping changes, as well as strategic responses for businesses impacted by the ongoing shifts in global trade.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 6, 2025

Jacobs will work to double the size of Boeing’s St. Louis facility in Missouri, supporting efforts to enhance national security and defense infrastructure. The multi-billion-dollar project includes sustainable building development, infrastructure upgrades and environmental solutions, Jacobs said Thursday. The expanded site will house advanced assembly operations and a post-assembly center for future-generation aircraft.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

The former CEO of a defense industry supplier has settled his lawsuit alleging he was duped into taking the job by a North Carolina private equity firm and then fired for refusing to go along with fibs about its financial future to a major client, according to a notice filed Friday.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 6, 2025

Leidos is developing a magnetic navigation capability that uses quantum technology as an alternative to the Global Positioning System signal, which is susceptible to jamming. The work is under a Defense Innovation Unit contract and involves subcontractor Frequency Electronics and MIT Lincoln Lab, Leidos said Thursday.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

​Two recent settlements highlight how whistleblowers and the U.S. Department of Justice have been utilizing the False Claims Act to allege fraud predicated on violations of cybersecurity standards — timely lessons given new bipartisan legislation introducing potential FCA liability for artificial intelligence use, say​ attorneys Rachel Rose and Julie Bracker.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 6, 2025

Eight technology companies, namely Alteryx, Atlassian, Box, Docusign, Peraton, SAIC, Salesforce and Twilio have launched the AI Integrators Council, a new coalition that represents firms embedding AI into real-world systems, platforms and applications. The coalition said Thursday its mission is to inform policymakers and key stakeholders about the evolving complexities of roles, responsibilities and relationships within the AI ecosystem.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

A New York federal judge on Thursday rebuffed an attempt from CVS Health Corp. to evade responsibility in a False Claims Act case, after a jury found that its subsidiary Omnicare bilked the federal government out of over $135 million in fraudulent drug claims.

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FedInsider

JUNE 6, 2025

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE There are few things worse for agency efficiency – or IT employee morale – than having fragmented service requests, overwhelming workflows, and siloed knowledge. It is not that IT employees aren’t working hard to solve problems, it’s that the tools they have been using cannot scale up as fast as user needs accumulate.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

Washington appellate judges expressed skepticism on Friday regarding an ambulance company's stance that qualified immunity shielded it from a patient estate's $2.3 million jury verdict over a mid-transport crash, while also casting doubt on the family's contention that the defendant had forfeited its appeal rights.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 6, 2025

Kristin Robertson, owner and president of KBR Insights and former Boeing and RTX senior executive, has been named a member of the board of directors of Kraken Robotics.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday closed a "gaping jurisdictional loophole" that allowed defendants to challenge jurisdiction in just about any case involving multiple plaintiffs, saying the mere presence of multiple plaintiffs is not enough to invoke appellate review.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 6, 2025

Impulse Space has secured $300 million in a Series C funding round led by Linse Capital, bringing the in-space transportation services provider’s total funding to $525 million. The California-based company said Tuesday it will use the capital to scale and execute its backlog of missions amid increasing demand in the defense, civil and commercial sectors.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

Peru breached its U.S. trade agreement by imposing $417 million in penalties and interest on the unpaid royalties of an Arizona-based mining company's local operator, the company said while asking international arbiters to partially annul an award that it claimed mistakenly ignored the issue.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

ASRC Federal has appointed David Yang, an experienced leader in federal IT, as vice president of business development for its civilian and health operating group.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday rejecting the Ninth Circuit's outlier interpretation of a jurisdictional question in a $1.3 billion arbitral award enforcement case came as no surprise to arbitration experts, who say they will nevertheless continue closely watching the case to see how outstanding issues are resolved.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 6, 2025

HII has supported the U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed launch and recovery of the uncrewed underwater vehicle Yellow Moray from USS Delaware, a Virginia-class attack submarine, in the U.S. European Command theater. The achievement marks the first torpedo tube deployment and recovery of a UUV for a tactical mission, the company said Thursday.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco producers have accused Philip Morris USA of trying to derail a deal with Washington state last spring to resolve longstanding payment disputes stemming from Big Tobacco's 1998 master settlement agreement, according to a new lawsuit in Washington state court.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

NASA has announced that it has awarded 25 new contracts, with a cumulative value of $475 million over 10 years, to empower the agency’s workforce through active engagement with the public.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court's latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

Tria Federal has appointed Atchut Kanthamani, founder and CEO of Softrams, as president and Andrew Hand, a strategy and business development executive, as a senior vice president. Sagewind Capital-backed Tria said Thursday Kanthamani will oversee the company’s business growth and technology innovation teams.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 6, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court halted discovery Friday into whether the Department of Government Efficiency is an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act, but left the door open to future, more tailored inquiries about the inner workings of the initiative.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson has visited John ‘JD’ Parkes, CEO, co-founder and board member at Parry Labs, to personally present him with the 2025 Wash100 Award. Founded in 2104 by Garrettson, the Wash100 Award spotlights the most influential government and government contracting executives each year.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 6, 2025

The federal government’s approach to acquisition is changing, driven by a push for consolidation, increased efficiency and greater accessibility for a broader range of vendors. Some of these changes are entirely new and others are reminiscent of past policies, but all are reshaping how agencies procure technology and services. Jay Colavita, CEO of Vertosoft, a value-added distributor specializing in the public sector, highlighted the dramatic evolution of government acquisition over his 25

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