All Things Protest: Big Decisions for Small Businesses (October 2021)
Podcast | 10.29.21
Crowell & Moring’s “All Things Protest” podcast keeps you up to date on major trends in bid protest litigation, key developments in high-profile cases, and best practices in state and federal procurement. In this episode, host Olivia Lynch is joined by Michael Samuels to discuss a recent decision from the Small Business Administration’s Office of Hearings and Appeals on the ostensible subcontractor rule as well as a recent Government Accountability Office decision sustaining a protest of an agency solicitation that required a joint venture competing for the award, as opposed to the individual members of the joint venture, to hold a top secret facility clearance.
Materials Discussed in This Episode
- Size Appeal of Telesis Corp., SBA No. SIZ-6114 (2021)
- InfoPoint, LLC, B-419856, August 27, 2021, 2021 CPD ⁋ 290
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