EP: 4 Roasting Congressman Neguse, RFO Rulemaking, CMMC Hits Pause & Who’s on the Naughty List?

Send us Fan Mail Want your question featured on the next episode? Email us at: [AskASI@asigovt.com](mailto:AskASI@asigovt.com) In Episode 4 of The FAR is Lava, Ben Bunting and Will Roberts break down the federal acquisition news to teach you the FAR and RFO. This week: • We roast a congressional exchange over the $13.1 million "no-bid" contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. • The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul moves from its rebellious phase into formal rulemaking, with major proposed changes affecting commercial acquisitions, negotiations, late proposals and Best-in-Class contracts. • GSA raises federal lodging per diem rates, so congratulations: you may be able to afford eggs again. • SBA receives heavy opposition to its proposed small-business size standards, which could allow companies with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to qualify as small. • A former CISA employee pleads guilty after secretly working multiple government contractor jobs and claiming workdays as long as 33 hours. • The cancellation of CIO-SP4 raises a larger question: Is GSA slowly swallowing the federal acquisition market? • The Pentagon pauses CMMC Phase Two while reviewing more than 1,100 industry responses. The “positive response” is largely support for the pause, not support for CMMC as written. • In this week’s GAO protest, H2L Solutions challenges the VA after submitting a lower-priced quotation but receiving a Low Confidence technical rating. GAO also warns protesters about inaccurate citations bearing the hallmarks of unchecked AI use. We also answer listener questions about whether BPAs inside IDIQ contracts can become a sole-source loophole and what recourse a contractor may have when an OTA prototype fails and the government later relaxes the requirements. Daily Procurement Newsletter: https://elink.io/p/dailydose-9ffda63 Earn CLPs Watching Our Content: https://educationpro.asigovernment.com/ Schedule a Meeting: [AskASI@asigovt.com](mailto:AskASI@asigovt.com) Have a question you want us to answer on the podcast? Leave it in the comments below. Like, subscribe and share the episode with someone who works in federal acquisition. The FAR is Lava is sponsored by ASI Government. Editorial work by Anne Laurent. Produced in collaboration with Studio Podcast Suites. #FederalProcurement #GovernmentContracting #FAR #RFO #CMMC #SmallBusiness #BidProtest #GovCon