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For how the case turned out, Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney Joe Petrillo.
Workhorse Group, an electric vehicle company on the Postal Service's shortlist to manufacture its next-generation delivery vehicle fleet, is ending its legal battle against USPS and contract award recipient Oshkosh Defense.
Acquisitions can go wrong when the agency downplays price, but makes an award on price anyway.
As detailed as solicitations and procurement rules might be, protests are a regular part of the federal contracting scene. Joseph Petrillo, attorney at the law firm Smith Pachter McWhorter, provided some analysis on the topic.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Pentagon is giving other cloud service providers a chance to participate in new contract after it cancelled the JEDI Cloud project.
Industry experts are calling on NITAAC to rescind the solicitation and address several inconsistencies.
Defense officials said Tuesday they were cancelling the multibillion dollar sole-source contract. In its place, they will launch a new acquisition process that's expected to include awards to Amazon, Microsoft, and potentially other cloud producers.
Workhorse alleged the USPS vehicle award recipient submitted a prototype vehicle “entirely different” than the one selected for production, and that the winning design “skipped the prototype phase altogether.”
DoD and Amazon Web Services intend to keep fighting in court over JEDI, but have very different ideas about how the case should proceed.
In today's Federal Newscast, three years in the making, the Defense Department sets out its process for how contracting officers should do enhanced debriefings.
It doesn't always matter how good your company, your bid, or your past performance might be. Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo brought the details to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
When MARAD sought a vendor to buy, staff and maintain ships for its ready reserve fleet, it made a number of errors in its solicitation. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo has the details.
New data in the Government Accountability Act’s fiscal 2020 report to Congress on bid protests shows that vendors received some sort of corrective action 51% of the time.
Lawyers for Microsoft and the government are asking a federal court to dismiss key portions of Amazon’s lawsuit over the Defense Department’s JEDI Cloud contract, in a nutshell, because the claims in question were raised too late to be legally viable.