Lawyer says keeping award details confidential beneficial for contractors

Pricing information in contract bids remains secret, not that contractors don't sometimes try. Recent Freedom of Information Act decisions have upheld that...

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It’s axiomatic, or it has been for decades, that pricing information in contract bids remains secret — not that contractors don’t sometimes try. Some recent Freedom of Information Act decisions have upheld that principle on recompetes. Attorney Terry O’Connor, a partner at Berenzweig Leonard, talked with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about it.

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