Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Protest: Intervenor’s Silence Waives Future Protest Grounds
Client Alert | 1 min read | 05.05.21
When is the deadline to file a bid protest, and what actions or inactions can cause potential future protest arguments to be waived? These seemingly simple questions can have surprising answers. In a recent bid protest decision, GAO held that a contract awardee can waive potential protest grounds by failing to raise them when intervening in a competitor’s bid protest of its award. See VS2, LLC, B-418942.4, B-418942.5, Feb. 25, 2021, 2021 CPD ¶ --, 2021 WL 873343. C&M’s Eric Ransom and Rob Sneckenberg explain the VS2 decision and provide useful takeaways for contract awardees in this “Feature Comment” published in The Government Contractor.
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Client Alert | 5 min read | 01.27.25
After Trump Executive Orders, FDA Removes Diversity Guidance From Website
Days after President Trump issued an executive order (EO) taking aim at diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and prohibiting federal recognition of gender identity apart from biological sex, previously issued draft guidance on diversity in clinical trials was removed from the website of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). While the removed guidance was in draft form, it is highly unusual for FDA to revoke or alter draft guidance without issuing a statement or further guidance. This move raises questions about the applicability of statutory obligations to submit clinical trial Diversity Action Plans and the agency’s current thinking on best practices for clinical development.
Client Alert | 8 min read | 01.27.25
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State Department Pauses Almost All Foreign Assistance Funding
