Category: Acquisition Reform and Emerging Issues
Welcome Habib Ilahi
We are excited to welcome Partner Habib Ilahi to our Washington, DC office—and Stinson’s Government Contracts and Investigations Group. A former Healthcare Prosecutor in the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Fraud Section, Habib assists clients on government contracting matters and special investigations, as well as healthcare litigation. https://www.stinson.com/people-HabibIlahi
Happy Thanksgiving!
From all of us in Stinson LLP’s Government Contracts and Investigations Practice Group, Happy Thanksgiving! We look forward to returning next week with more government contracts-related content.
Some Tradeoff Is Better than None—and Enough to Avoid the Prohibition against LPTA
When the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was enacted, the prohibition in Section 813(c) against the use of lowest price technically acceptable (LPTA) source selection criteria seemed fairly cut and dry. As time passes and procuring agencies adopt new evaluation schemes, however, the parameters of the prohibition are being tested. The recent Government AccountabilityRead More
U.S. District Court Denies Motion To Dismiss and Considers Cybersecurity Compliance Under The Civil False Claims Act
Cybersecurity issues are not going away anytime soon and the risk of noncompliance for contractors is ratcheting up. In a recent ruling in a Civil False Claims Act (FCA) Qui Tam case, Judge Shubb of the Eastern District of California determined that the whistleblower’s allegations – – that a company’s statements regarding the status ofRead More