Bob Kucharuk– The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued its Bid Protest Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2018 on November 27.  During FY 2018, GAO received 2,607 cases:  2,474 protests, 55 cost claims, and 78 requests for reconsideration. The majority of protests were dismissed as GAO deemed evaluation to be consistent with the... Read More

Anthony Maggert — a former Contracting Officer (CO) Evaluating thousands of federal proposals I’ve seen a lot of bad. As a Contracting Officer (CO), my job was to weed out the bad and embrace the good. What does bad look like? Easy. Remember your 8th grade English class? Bad grammar, misspelling, punctuation, miss alignment —... Read More

Love them or hate them, storyboards serve as an indispensable tool to help organize proposal sections. I was surprised to learn that storyboards originated in the studios of Walt Disney in the early 1930s. At Disney, storyboards allowed the company to get control over the movie making process in a setting where costs are high.... Read More