Category: U.S. Government
Webinar — The New U.S. Rule on Reverse Auctions: A Critical Assessment
GW Law Summer Series: Green Public Procurement Across Borders
ABA Bid Protest Committee Meeting – Agency Bid Protests
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET
Venue: Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20004
This is a hybrid in-person/remote event. Register here for In-Person or Zoom Attendance
Please join the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Public Contract Law’s Bid Protest Committee for our March 2024 meeting on “Agency-Level Protests.” Topics include:
- Executive Order 12979 and the history of agency-level protests;
- Factors to consider when deciding whether to bring an agency-level protest;
- Jurisdictional and standing issues affecting agency-level protests;
- Where and when to file an agency-level protest;
- What happens to the contract award while an agency-level protest is pending;
- What, if anything, the protester is provided in terms of an administrative record; and
- How agency-level protests are decided and reported.
We hope that you can join us for this highly informative presentation. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP for in-person attendance. Government personnel will have the option to pay $10 for lunch.
Panelists:
- Christopher Yukins, Lynn David Research Professor in Government Procurement Law, GW Law (author, ACUS report on proposed agency-level protest reforms, and AIRC congressionally mandated report on DoD bid protests)
- Scott Flesch, Member, Miller & Chevalier Chartered
- Lt. Col. Bruce Mayeaux, U.S. Army, Deputy Chief Contract & Fiscal Actions Division
- Rachel Park, Integrity Officer, Office of the U.S. General Services Administration Suspension & Debarment Official and Agency Protest Official
Webinar on Reshaping the Federal Debarment System
US-European Defence Cooperation: Imperatives in a Time of War – by Christopher R. Yukins & Daniel E. Schoeni
This was a contribution to a special edition of the University of Nottingham’s Public Procurement Law Review on defense procurement in light of the war in Ukraine. What follows is the abstract, including the British spelling:
Rather than summarising the US national procurement regime for defence—the approach taken by many valuable contributions to this special edition, regarding other nations—this article defers to the existing literature and instead places the US practice of defence procurement law in a broader context, especially in light of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The US experience is that civilian and military purchasing are largely interchangeable, and that hard lessons learned from both quarters, such as in the procurement of supplies in a battle zone and the elimination of trade barriers, could be used to advance the cause of Ukraine and its democratic allies in the current war. The moral imperatives presented by the war in Ukraine are obvious, and this brief piece concludes that legal practitioners in our discipline, even if they are not specifically defence experts, can share a common skillset crucial to preserving democracy and rebuilding Ukraine, despite this terrible war.
This article was first published by Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ, in the Public Procurement Law Review, 32 Pub. Proc. L. Rev. 445 (2023), and is reproduced by agreement with the publishers. For further details, please see the publishers’ website. The manuscript version of the article is available here on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
NASPO Law Institute – Framework Agreements – New Orleans
Gian Luigi Albano of Italy’s centralized purchasing agency, CONSIP, joined Keith McCook (a senior procurement attorney in South Carolina government) and GW Law’s Christopher Yukins on November 10, 2023 to discuss the law-and-economics of framework agreements (which in the U.S. system are known as “indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity” contracts).
They spoke at the 10th anniversary meeting of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) Law Institute in New Orleans. The Law Institute is a regular gathering of chief procurement officers (CPOs) and state public procurement attorneys from around the United States.
Webinar: Opening Borders – Access2Procurement
David Drabkin and Christopher Yukins present at Swedish Public Procurement Conference
David Drabkin (Procurement Round Table) and Christopher Yukins (George Washington University Law School) discuss two reports done for the Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC), on U.S Defense Department bid protests (bid challenges) and mandatory debarment (exclusion). This presentation was prepared for the annual Swedish public procurement conference (“Upphandlingskonferensen“) in Stockholm, May 4-5, 2023, hosted by Prof Andrea Sundstrand of Stockholm University.
