Joseph Petrillo
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Sometimes the source selection authorities choose a different contractor than the one favored by the program people. If they do, they better have a good reason.
December 21, 2017 -
Incumbency has its advantages and sometimes being roughly as good and coming in with a lower price doesn't mean you'll take the stage.
December 07, 2017 -
If a company's winning bid proposal team includes a former agency employee, that's not necessarily a conflict of interest.
November 30, 2017 -
If you decide to protest, don't try to keep details of the performance reviews from the court. The judges don't like that.
November 16, 2017 -
Indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity contracts with multiple contractors are supposed to make competition easier. Sometimes the opposite happens.
October 26, 2017 -
Short of protesting a contract award to a competitor, there's nothing a contractor can do when it gets a bad performance rating.
October 12, 2017 -
Sometimes procurement does come down to lowest price, but often contracting officers have to make tradeoffs.
September 28, 2017 -
GAO upheld a bid protest filed by YWCA over a Labor Department contract to run the agency's Los Angeles Job Corps center.
August 31, 2017 -
The Forest Service uses planes in wildfire suppression. The specs for one such plane landed the agency in the thicket of a protest.
August 17, 2017 -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Claims ruled the Army went too far in trying to be fair to bidders on a recent recompete contract.
August 03, 2017 -
An important acquisition by the Education Department hit the rocks. One contractor got hold of earlier bid documents of its competitor. Even disclosure of that fact wasn't enough to save this one. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
July 07, 2017 -
Sometimes large and highly publicized procurements go so far off the rails the agency has no choice but to cancel them. That's what happened when Homeland Security's acquisition shop tried to make a multiple award deal for agile development. After two rounds of protests, the agency gave up. Joseph Petrillo, procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more on the perceived irregularities.
June 22, 2017 -
There's nothing like federal contract award protests to make the simple seem complicated. But if you cut through the legalese, sometimes the lowest cost bid really does turn out to be the best deal. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares some recent cases in point on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 26, 2017 -
The Contractor Performance Assessment Reports System (CPARS) is one of the Defense Department's most potent weapons for dealing with poor performing companies. But sometimes contracting officers make erroneous judgments and enter them into CPARS. Then what? Contractors can sue. But procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that even if they win the case, they don't really win.
May 11, 2017 -
When incumbent services contractors see a recompetition coming, it often sets off their "spidey sense." But there are limits to how much a contractor can control the solicitation put out by the agency for which it's working. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares a recent case in point on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 27, 2017