Law360 breaks down the decisions from US courts and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2020 that impacted federal contractors, addressing issues like the impacts of COVID-19 and how personal relationships between contractors and federal employees can sink a deal.
McCarter partner Franklin Turner comments on one of the biggest decisions of the year—when the GAO handed down its first decision related to COVID-19—saying, “The case is a good one for contractors, because it reaffirms what the [Federal Acquisition Regulation] says in terms of requirements, and what a lot of GAO case law says, which is that an agency cannot ignore the reality of the world when it issues a solicitation.”