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Unfortunately, the System for Award Management (SAM) registration and annual renewal process for government contractors recently became more cumbersome. In response to alleged, third party fraudulent activity in SAM, GSA is taking steps to prevent improper activity going forward. Entities Read More
April 4, 2018 Joseph Feibel Question: Can I bill time for travel on my Government Contract? Answer: Without knowing the specifics of your contract I cannot say with certainty; however, generally nonproductive time related to official travel to and from one’s temporary Read More
April 4, 2018 Joseph Feibel Includes means “including but not limited to.” May means “is permitted to” or “is authorized to.” May not means “is no permitted to”or “is not authorized to.” Shall is used in the mandatory and imperative Read More
March 1, 2018 Joseph Feibel Question: My contract’s period of performance is ending, however, due to delays in litigation, work has been delayed. We have funding remaining and like to extend the contract period of performance for six additional months. Read More
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Advance Payments for Expert Contracts Joseph Feibel – January 26, 2017 Question: The Expert Witness we want to contract with is asking for half of the money upfront. Can we pay the Expert Witness half of the contact amount up Read More
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Joseph Feibel – January 23, 2018 Question: How do you track your contracts workload? Answer: My office uses Microsoft Excel; the disadvantage of using Excel on a Shared Drive is that only one person can work on updating the Spreadsheet Read More
Joseph Feibel – January 22, 2018 Starting in in 2001, when President Bush briefly had a tie vote majority in the Senate, the United States government has not passed a budget without a continuing resolution. In fact, were 21 of Read More
Joseph Feibel – January 20, 2018 Question: What is a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)? Answer: A BPA is actually an agreement. That agreement provides us a streamlined process to award orders against it that are within the scope of that Read More