By Gail D. Zirkelbach, Jason M. Crawford and Mana Elihu Lombardo on Posted in False Claims,Legal Developments,PodcastIn this episode, hosts Mana Lombardo and Jason Crawford talk with Gail Zirkelbach, partner in the firm’s Government Contracts Group and vice-chair of the Investigations practice, about practical tips for managing internal False Claims Act Investigations. “Let’s Talk FCA” is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest developments with the False Claims Act. Listen: Crowell.com |… Continue Reading
By Rob Sneckenberg and Lauren Williams on Posted in Bid Protest,Legal DevelopmentsIn a recent blog post, we explained that the Federal Circuit’s decision in Cleveland Assets, LLC may have narrowed the COFC’s bid protest jurisdiction. Prior decisions had held that a protester need only allege a violation of statute or regulation “in connection with” a procurement or proposed procurement to fall within the COFC’s Tucker Act… Continue Reading
By Laura Cordova, William Chang, Mana Elihu Lombardo and Jason M. Crawford on Posted in False Claims,Legal Developments,PodcastIn this episode, hosts Mana Lombardo and Jason Crawford are joined by Will Chang and Laura Cordova, both partners in the firm’s Health Care and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups, to discuss recently announced reforms to False Claims Act enforcement. “Let’s Talk FCA” is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest developments with the… Continue Reading
By David B. Robbins and Peter J. Eyre on Posted in Legal Developments,PodcastThis week’s episode covers cost accounting, artificial intelligence, and protest news, and is hosted by partners David Robbins and Peter Eyre. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. Listen: Crowell.com… Continue Reading
By Peter J. Eyre and David B. Robbins on Posted in False Claims,Legal Developments,PodcastThis week’s episode covers debarment, defense spending, and FCA news, and is hosted by partners Peter Eyre and David Robbins. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. Listen: Crowell.com |… Continue Reading
By Peter J. Eyre on Posted in Legal Developments,PodcastThis week’s episode covers SAM news, OTA news, and proposed rules, and is hosted by partner Peter Eyre. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. Listen: Crowell.com | PodBean |… Continue Reading
By Nicole Owren-Wiest, Steve McBrady, Elizabeth Buehler and Charles Baek on Posted in Cost/Cost Accounting,Legal DevelopmentsThe Defense Contract Audit Agency (“DCAA”) recently made public its Fiscal Year 2017 Report to Congress, which, among other things, provides an update on incurred cost audits. Specifically, the report explains that DCAA: Closed “6,786 incurred cost years” using a variety of methods, namely reports and memos, but also for other reasons (e.g., per the… Continue Reading
By Peter J. Eyre and David B. Robbins on Posted in Legal Developments,PodcastThis week’s episode covers Supreme Court, NDAA, and ‘Fat Leonard’ news, and is hosted by partners David Robbins and Peter Eyre. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. Listen: Crowell.com… Continue Reading
By Brian Tully McLaughlin, Nkechi Kanu and Sarah Hill on Posted in False Claims,Legal DevelopmentsRecently, in United States ex rel. Hunt v. Cochise Consultancy Inc., the Eleventh Circuit widened a split in authority regarding the applicability of the tolling provision of the False Claims Act’s statute of limitations, holding that it is applicable to qui tam actions even when the government declines to intervene. The court also found that… Continue Reading
By William Chang, Jason M. Crawford and Mana Elihu Lombardo on Posted in False Claims,Legal Developments,Podcast“Let’s Talk FCA” is Crowell & Moring’s podcast covering the latest developments with the False Claims Act. In this episode, hosts Mana Lombardo and Jason Crawford interview Will Chang, a partner in the firm’s Health Care and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups and a former trial attorney at the DOJ Criminal Division, Fraud Section,… Continue Reading
By Rob Sneckenberg, Olivia Lynch and Mark Ries on Posted in Bid Protest,Legal Developments,PodcastCrowell & 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 Rob Sneckenberg interviews Senior Counsel Mark Ries about the nuanced procedural and substantive considerations for protests involving classified information.… Continue Reading
By Nicole Owren-Wiest, Elizabeth Buehler, Sharmistha Das and Charles Baek on Posted in Cost/Cost Accounting,Legal DevelopmentsContractors looking for updates to the statutory allowable cost limits on employee compensation may be looking in the wrong place. But what was once lost can easily be found, at least for the moment, by simply navigating to a different website. The Cost Principles and the Compensation Cap FAR 31.205-6(p)(4) governs the allowable compensation of… Continue Reading
By Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Peter J. Eyre, Olivia Lynch and Elizabeth Buehler on Posted in Legal DevelopmentsThe Small Business Administration (SBA) has seemingly slipped a noteworthy change into a technical correction published in the Federal Register on March 26, 2018. Indeed, this “technical correction” actually appears to be an attempt to overturn the impact of a decision that the Office of Hearing and Appeals (OHA) issued in January 2018 – In… Continue Reading
By David B. Robbins on Posted in Bid Protest,Legal Developments,PodcastThis week’s episode covers DOJ, IDIQ, and GAO case law news, and is hosted by partner David Robbins. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. Listen: Crowell.com | PodBean |… Continue Reading
By Olivia Lynch and Payal Nanavati on Posted in Bid Protest,Legal DevelopmentsIn AlliantCorps, LLC, B-415744.2, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied a protest by AlliantCorps, LLC (Alliant) alleging violations of the Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) by the Department of the Navy (Navy) following Alliant’s prior protest of a task order award to DKW Communications, Inc. (DKW). Alliant asserted that DKW improperly received Alliant’s bid and proposal… Continue Reading
By Michael Gruden on Posted in Cybersecurity,Events,Legal DevelopmentsWith even DoD officials acknowledging cyber threats ranging from exfiltrating our top military secrets (“the terabyte of death” per DISA’s Director) to seizing control of SECDEF’s car to sinking Navy vessels with critical infrastructure attacks, both federal agencies and government contractors are in the pressure cooker. For contractors, bad cybersecurity not only opens the door… Continue Reading
By Peter J. Eyre on Posted in Legal Developments,PodcastThis week’s episode covers DFARS and SBA Mentor Protégé Program news and is hosted by partner Peter Eyre. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. Listen: Crowell.com | PodBean | SoundCloud |… Continue Reading
By Judy Choi on Posted in Events,Legal DevelopmentsWith over 1,700 government contracts M&A deals since 2015, M&A continues to be a significant factor in shaping the federal contracting market. Join us on Thursday, May 18,2018, at 9:15 AM Eastern, as Crowell & Moring attorneys James Stuart, Karen Hermann, and Judy Choi along with special guest Tim Garnett, a Manager Director of Avascent,… Continue Reading
By Mana Elihu Lombardo on Posted in Events,False Claims,Legal DevelopmentsAre we experiencing a shift towards a higher bar for pursuing False Claims Act Cases? Department of Justice guidelines may signal a new direction from the last two decades of DOJ FCA enforcement history through policies that reign in relators and articulate some boundaries for cases pursued by DOJ. Meanwhile, Escobar progeny continues to develop… Continue Reading
By David B. Robbins and Monica DiFonzo Sterling on Posted in Legal Developments,PodcastThis week’s episode covers FedRAMP news, DOL news, and GSA schedule news, and is hosted by partner David Robbins and associate Monica Sterling. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be… Continue Reading
By Evan D. Wolff, Peter B. Miller, Maida Oringher Lerner, Kate M. Growley, Judy Choi, Michael Gruden and Payal Nanavati on Posted in Cybersecurity,Legal DevelopmentsThe National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a draft special publication titled Systems Security Engineering: Resiliency Considerations for the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems (Volume 2), which provides guidance to professionals responsible for the activities and tasks related to the system life cycle processes in NIST’s flagship publication, NIST Special Publication 800-160… Continue Reading
By Crowell & Moring on Posted in Legal DevelopmentsPlease join us on April 24 from 5-7:30pm at Crowell & Moring LLP for a panel discussion and cocktail reception hosted by the ABA Section of Public Contract Law Procurement Fraud and Young Lawyers Committees. The panel will discuss how recent False Claims Act developments have created new challenges (and opportunities) for in-house counsel, the… Continue Reading
By Mark R. Troy and Jason M. Crawford on Posted in False Claims,Legal DevelopmentsOn March 22, 2018, an Indiana state trial court judge granted a motion to dismiss in State of Indiana ex. rel Harmeyer v. The Kroger Co. et al. Relator Harmeyer—an attorney and Kroger patron—alleged that the grocery chain knowingly failed to collect and remit state sales tax on hundreds of goods throughout the state. Under Indiana… Continue Reading
