Willfully misrepresenting your small-business size or status can trigger a presumed loss equal to the full contract value — and FCA treble damages — even if you performed perfectly.
Federal law protects contractor employees who report waste, fraud, or law violations — and punishes retaliation. With whistleblower suits at a record, this matters.
If your employees perform acquisition functions close to inherently governmental work, FAR requires you to prevent personal conflicts of interest. Here's the duty.
Hiring former government officials creates personal conflict-of-interest and post-employment risk that the contractor — not just the employee — has to manage.
On its 73rd anniversary, SBA launched a modernized SBA.gov to streamline access to capital, counseling, and contracting — with a sharpened focus on manufacturers.
Agencies are buying AI, cyber, and modernization at scale. If your capability statement still leads with staff augmentation, it's costing you teaming invites.
SBA's shift to a discrimination-based 8(a) test plus aggressive DOJ False Claims Act enforcement means set-aside firms must keep eligibility documentation current.
SAM, UEI, NAICS, RFP, IDIQ, 8(a) — federal contracting runs on alphabet soup. Here are the 40 government contracting acronyms every new contractor needs, organized into five plain-English groups you can actually remember.
