Procurement Playbook

How the AbilityOne Program Provides Federal Contracting Jobs to Individuals with Disabilities

The National Industrial Recovery Act, part of the New Deal policies in 1934, allowed businesses employing individuals with disabilities to pay less than minimum wage to their disabled workers. This “sub-minimum” wage policy was buttressed by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act which allows employers to apply for Section 14(c) certificates to pay their employees with disabilities less than the prevailing wage if their disability impacts their productivity. Read More…

Debarment Heads North of the Border


In the not so very distant past, companies mainly needed to worry about exclusion from public contracting in the United States.  However, the exclusion trend has caught on internationally.  Recently, Canada has revised their exclusion policies to require companies to certify that neither the company nor its affiliates have committed a list of criminal offenses anywhere in the world dating back 10 years. Read More…

VA Sanctioned for Discovery Abuses at the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals

In most litigation, the plaintiff and the defendant are equally susceptible to being sanctioned by the court for bad or dilatory behavior. However, government contracts litigation is not most litigation. In government contracts litigation (claims or protests), the contractor is more susceptible to being sanctioned than the government.  Read More…