Small Business News
- SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 27-31, 2025 January 31, 2025It’s Friday and time for another week in review, on this last day of January. We are so excited that our Kansas City Chiefs will be playing, once again, in the Super Bowl. We’re looking forward to the championship game against an impressive Philadelphia Eagles team, and a chance for the Chiefs to become the […]Shane McCall
- Webinar Event! Top 21 Legal Mistakes in Federal Government Contracting, February 13, 2025, 12:00pm-1:30pm CST January 31, 2025Federal contracting rules and laws are complicated, and the rules aren’t always intuitive. Many contractors make legal mistakes routinely, involving everything from completing SAM profiles to calculating small business size to communicating with government contracting officers. Federal government contracts attorneys, Nicole Pottroff & Annie Birney of Koprince McCall Pottroff, will discuss the top 21 most […]Shane McCall
- Making Unsuccessful Protesters Pay? Enhanced Pleading Standards? A Look at Proposed Changes to GAO Protest Rules Under the 2025 NDAA January 29, 2025Back in 2017, in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress passed a limited program for GAO protests of Department of Defense contracts where certain large contractors would have to reimburse the DoD for the cost of processing unsuccessful GAO protests. We reviewed that rule here. Congress repealed that provision with the 2021 NDAA. […]John Holtz
- FAR Council Establishes New Size and Status Rerepresentation Rules January 28, 2025The FAR Council recently published a final rule dealing with small business certification issues, effective on January 17, 2025. This final rule came about to ensure that certain parts of the FAR and SBA rules are consistent. The change? Adding additional circumstances that require an awardee to rerepresent its size and/or socioeconomic status for orders […]Stephanie Ellis
Government Acquisition News
- VA will end remote work status for thousands of staffers this month February 3, 2025The move to end telework at VA follows instructions from the White House to return most federal employees to their pre-pandemic duty stations.Leo Shane III
- Vets group blasts Trump plane crash comments as ‘shameful’ January 31, 2025The president on Thursday suggested that programs to hire workers with disabilities may have lead to the aircraft collision that killed 67 people.Leo Shane III
- VA places 60 staff on leave after shutting down DEI offices January 24, 2025The moves come after a White House executive order mandating an end to federal equity and inclusion efforts.Leo Shane III
- More than 300k VA health jobs exempted from White House hiring freeze January 23, 2025About two-thirds of Veterans Affairs jobs will be excluded from a White House order blocking new hiring.Leo Shane III