Procurement Winter 2021

Features

Public Contract

Big Changes in Small Business Regulations: Recent Rule Changes and Their Effect on Contractors

Daniel H. Ramish

The SBA has opened the regulatory floodgates. On October 16, 2020, the agency issued a Final Rule that made a wide array of changes to small business regulations. This article reviews key provisions of this Rule and others issued over the past year.

Public Contract

Securing the Government Supply Chain: Section 889 and Prohibitions on Chinese Telecom

Townsend L. Bourne and Nikole R. Snyder

Rarely does a new law affect federal contractors so universally as the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act's Section 889. The authors refer to recent Interim Rules and Section 889 guidance to help clarify and analyze the statutory language and regulatory implementation.

Public Contract

Trust, But Verify: The Rise of Self-Scoring Evaluations in Federal Procurements

Ian Patterson

Roughly five years after it was implemented, use of the GSA’s self-scoring evaluation system is on the rise. This article reviews the origins of the self-scoring approach and its legal underpinnings and contrasts the strengths and weaknesses of the evaluation scheme

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Public Contract

News from the Chair

Susan Warshaw Ebner

Although we originally planned to host the 2020 Fall Public Procurement Symposium in Austin, Texas, pandemic restrictions necessitated making an early decision to plan for a virtual Symposium. Held mid-November, it offered fascinating practicums and panels on timely topics.

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Winter 2021

Pre-Contract Challenges to Government Assertions of CAS Noncompliance and Cost Disallowances

Features

Big Changes in Small Business Regulations: Recent Rule Changes and Their Effect on Contractors

Securing the Government Supply Chain: Section 889 and Prohibitions on Chinese Telecom

Trust, But Verify: The Rise of Self-Scoring Evaluations in Federal Procurements

Columns

News from the Chair