How Four Big Federal Contracts Rulings Will Echo Into 2021

Much of the federal contracting legal world in 2020 remained focused on the Defense Department’s $10 billion JEDI cloud procurement—Microsoft’s selection under it, Oracle’s unsuccessful challenge to it, and Amazon’s ongoing effort to force a redo of it.

But federal contracts litigation went beyond JEDI: Some of the other most significant rulings of the year include four on accounting offsets, a contractor’s criminal history, prototype protests, and whistleblower third-party financing.

Accounting Offsets

Boeing won revival Aug. 10 of its attempt to recover $1 million the U.S. has withheld in a Navy contract dispute, after convincing a federal appeals court ...