Contracting officers now will be required to document the past performance of companies that win awards off the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule and for task or delivery ...

At a conference I attended recently, a participant complained that vendors' past-performance evaluations look alike, making it hard for them to be a differentiator in source selection. Government ...

There’s some buzz around a provision in the newly introduced Comprehensive Contingency Contracting Reform Act that would eliminate the ability established in the Federal Acquisition Regulation for a ...

Last week Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) held a hearing to complain about the lack of negative information about contractors in the government’s past performance database, citing specifically that ...

A government contractor’s past performance can spell the difference between proposal rejection and contract award, and agencies are given broad discretion in how they evaluate past performance. It is ...

A new inspector general report has taken the Army to task for its poor, well, performance on past performance reporting. The IG looked at past performance records for over a range of product, ...

In Advanced Computer Learning Company, LLC, B-423267.2 (September 2, 2025), Advanced Computer Learning Company (ACLC), the incumbent contractor, protested the Navy’s award of a support services and ...