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SBA Reduces Obstacles for Small Businesses Competing for Prime Federal Government Contracts
By: Jennifer Harris, Nick R. Hoogstraten, and Abby Salinas
Published Date: August 26, 2022
When evaluating competitive proposals for federal contracts, Contracting Officers consider price, technical evaluations, and past performance, among other factors. Up until now, many small businesses faced a significant hurdle when it came to past performance. Often small businesses could not compete with more established large businesses because they lacked the minimum relevant past performance required by the solicitation, or their [...] Read More
DoD Issues Guidance on Inflation Adjustments for Contractors
By: Jennifer Harris, Abby Salinas
Published Date: June 16, 2022
The Department of Defense (“DoD”) recently issued a memorandum to contracting officers (“COs”) providing guidance on the use of economic price adjustment (“EPA”) clauses to address inflation-related cost increases. The memorandum, entitled Guidance on Inflation and Economic Price Adjustments, comes as the year over year inflation rate rose to 8.6% for the month of May and contractors with fixed-price contracts [...] Read More
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