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GovConJudicata Weekly Debrief (2/10–14)

This week's Weekly Debrief covers the JEDI protest, trouble with FBO's migration to beta.SAM.gov, Trump's budget, and CISA's role in...

Joshua Duvall

Feb 14, 20202 min read

COFC Issues Preliminary Injunction in Amazon's JEDI Protest

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims granted Amazon Web Services, Inc.'s ("AWS") Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and...

Joshua Duvall

Feb 14, 20202 min read

Quick Take on Two Protests: Jurisdictional Quagmire for Protesting OTA Awards

A tale of two bid protests challenging awards of other transaction agreements ("OTA"), both of which were dismissed for lack of subject...

Joshua Duvall

Feb 9, 20206 min read

GovConJudicata Weekly Debrief (2/3–7)

This week's Weekly Debrief covers the multi-billion dollar CIA cloud, Space Force, election security, ODNI's updated counterintelligence...

Joshua Duvall

Feb 7, 20202 min read

GovConJudicata Weekly Debrief (1/27–31)

This week's Weekly Debrief covers the CMMC, GSA's multiple award merger, fake comments on Federal rule makings, CISA subpoena power, and...

Joshua Duvall

Feb 1, 20202 min read

DoD Contractors Beware: CMMC & DFARS 252.204-7012 & NIST SP 800-171

Later today, the Department of Defense will release version 1.0 of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification ("CMMC"). With the...

Joshua Duvall

Jan 31, 20203 min read

GovConJudicata Weekly Debrief (1/20–24)

This week's Weekly Debrief covers more JEDI news, Pentagon AI lethality, CMMC, State's recent cyber audit, Treasury's cyber efforts in...

Joshua Duvall

Jan 24, 20202 min read

"So-What" Defense Prevails: Virginia Contractor's Agency-Wide Non-Compete is Unenforce

Competition in the government contracting marketplace is fierce. One need only attend an industry day event or scroll through LinkedIn...

Joshua Duvall

Jan 21, 20207 min read

GovConJudicata Weekly Debrief (1/13–17)

This edition of the Weekly Debrief covers some interesting topics, such as fewer Army program budget cuts, Esper's generational-sized DoD...

Joshua Duvall

Jan 17, 20202 min read

GAO Sustains Protest Where Awardee Misrepresented the Availability of Incumbent's Employee

Government contractors know all too well how challenging it is to succeed in the Federal marketplace. From business development to...

Joshua Duvall

Jan 14, 20205 min read

GovConJudicata Weekly Debrief (1/6–10)

Happy New Year! This week's Weekly Debrief covers a variety of issues, such as the CMMC's new chair, Homeland's warning on Iranian...

Joshua Duvall

Jan 10, 20202 min read

GAO: Email Transmission Delay Sinks Contractor's Proposal

Does an agency email gateway strike again or is contractor-side transmission delay to blame? Either way, recent GAO bid protest decision...

Joshua Duvall

Jan 6, 20203 min read

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About GovConJudicata

Welcome to GovConJudicata an informational blog/website focusing on government contracts issues, including bid protests (e.g., GAO, COFC), claims, disputes, SBA matters, compliance, regulatory, and cyber (e.g., DFARS, NIST SP 800-171, CMMC).

GovConJudicata is published by Joshua Duvall, Shareholder at Maynard Nexsen a national law firm providing government contracts, business and cybersecurity legal services to small, mid-size, and large civilian and defense contractors.