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DOL Issues Guidance on Entitlement to Travel-Time Pay for Construction Employees
By: Lori Lange
Published Date: November 19, 2020
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Portal-to-Portal Act, and their implementing regulations generally require employers to pay an employee when the employee is working. However, the regulations do not always address every situation and questions can arise regarding whether or not employees should be paid in certain situations. For example, should a construction employee be paid when traveling to [...] Read More
GAO Holds That Emailing Proposal Did Not Satisfy Requirement to Upload Proposal to DoD SAFE
By: Lori Lange
Published Date: November 16, 2020
A solicitation will advise offerors of how to deliver their proposals, and it is critically important that offerors adhere to the specified delivery method – and time requirements – when submitting a proposal to a government agency. Many government solicitations provide for electronic submission of proposals and, for Department of Defense (DoD) solicitations, the proposal submission method is often the [...] Read More
When Does a Key Employee Become Unavailable?
By: Lori Lange
Published Date: November 9, 2020
Generally speaking, offerors on government procurements must notify the contracting agency when they know that one or more key personnel listed in their proposal become unavailable after proposal submission. Determining when the offeror actually knows that a proposed key person is unavailable, however, is not always as easy to determine as it sounds. What if the person merely states that [...] Read More
Contractor Cannot Protest Inclusion of Competitor in the Competitive Range
By: Lori Lange
Published Date: November 5, 2020
Competition is a part of doing business and is a cornerstone of government contracting. While contractors often wish they did not have to compete against other contractors for an award, attempts to limit their competition for government contracts often do not work. That was the case recently when a protester unsuccessfully challenged the government's decision to include its competitor in [...] Read More
NAACP Seeks to Enjoin Executive Order on Contractor Diversity Training
By: Lori Lange
Published Date: November 2, 2020
In a previous blog, we discussed Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. The EO directed federal agencies, starting on November 21, 2020, to include a clause in their contracts that prohibits contractors, during contract performance, from conducting any workplace training that “inculcates” in their employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating. Certain contracts exempt from [...] Read More
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