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The holiday season is in full swing and many of us are finding time for relaxation and family. For me, that’s meant light reading, cooking, cozying by the fireplace with movies, and listening to Taylor Swift songs on repeat with my daughter. With the downtime and Swift’s music still bouncing around my head, I thought it would be the perfect time to provide a fresh take on some recent bid protest data. Bid protests are an essential, yet often misunderstood, part of federal

On December 12, the U.S. Government Accountability Office ("GAO") published its Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2025 . Required under the Competition in Contracting Act ("CICA"), GAO's bid protest report is noteworthy because it provides a peek into GAO's protest function, including key statistics and GAO's most prevalent grounds on which it sustained bid protests during FY25. [1] Below is a snapshot of the report, including four takeaways. Government c

[My #govcon  alerts provide a quick take  on recent news in the government contracting space.] There is an interesting development for anyone following the   Percipient.ai   bid protest saga that was before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over the summer (discussed, in part, here ) . Following the Federal Circuit's en banc decision (7-4) in late August, which affirmed the U.S. Court of Federal Claims’ dismissal of Percipient.ai’s bid protest for lack of s

In what appears to be a first, the Government Accountability Office ("GAO") used its sanctions authority to dismiss a protest ( Oready,...

[My #govconthoughts  series provides a quick take  on recent developments in the government contracting space.] The recent Government...

This week's Weekly Debrief covers Lockheed's missile contract, the Air Force's pilotless cargo flights, HHS and data blocking, and the...

On August 25, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs ("OIRA") cleared the Department of...

Pleased to announce that GovConJudicata's founder and government contracts attorney, Joshua Duvall , was recently honored by OrangeSlices...

This week's Weekly Debrief covers Starlink's recent outage, Anduril's $100m Army deal, research grant litigation, and bipartisan support...

Yesterday, the Department of Defense ("DOD") submitted its final rule, Assessing Contractor Implementation of Cybersecurity Requirements...

[My #govconthoughts  series provides a quick take  on recent developments in the government contracting space.] Quick Take GAO's bid...

On July 23, 2025, government contracts and cyber attorney Josh Duvall will be speaking at the 2025 National HUBZone Conference in...