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GovConDash Weekly · September 7, 2026

The week of August 31, 2026 to September 6, 2026

What changed in government contracting this week. Every item links to its source: the memo, the Federal Register, eCFR or the decision itself.

This Week in GovCon

  • Comment deadlines: 2 proposed rules open for comment. The next comment deadline is September 21, 2026 (in 14 days): Small Business Size Standards: Revised Size Standards Methodology.
  • Audit guidance: DCAA reissued 2 Contract Audit Manual chapters (7 and 10) and 8 audit programs.
  • GAO protests: GAO released 5 protest decisions: 3 denied, 2 dismissed.
  • Courts and boards: New decisions: Court of Federal Claims 3, ASBCA 5, CBCA 6, SBA OHA 2.
  • Enforcement: 3 False Claims Act releases, with $8,100,000 in stated recoveries. The largest: $4,000,000, Franklin Towne Charter High School and Its Former CEO.

Proposed rules for every contractor(2)

Rules that would change the FAR, DFARS, the Cost Accounting Standards or the SBA contracting programs, soonest comment deadline first. Rules scoped to one industry are left out.

Small Business Size Standards: Revised Size Standards Methodology
Small business size standards, 13 CFR 121

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or Agency) advises the public that it has revised its white paper explaining how it establishes, reviews, and modifies small business size standards. The revised white paper provides a detailed description of SBA's size standards...

Small Business Administration · Amends 13 CFR 121 · Published August 20, 2026

Comments close September 21, 2026 (in 14 days)Submit a comment
Small Business Size Standards
Small business size standards, 13 CFR 121

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or the Agency) is proposing new size standards for 338 industry groups and industries. The new size standards are designed to better reflect the nature of the markets in which small businesses compete. SBA seeks comments on its...

Small Business Administration · Amends 13 CFR 121 · Published August 20, 2026

Comments close September 21, 2026 (in 14 days)

DCAA updates(10)

Everything DCAA changed this week: new Memoranda for Regional Directors (MRDs), and any Contract Audit Manual (CAM) chapter, audit program or Selected Areas of Cost Guidebook chapter it reissued, with the version each one replaces.

Contract Audit Manual (2)

  • Chapter 7: Fraud

    Revised September 3, 2026

  • Chapter 10: Report Writing

    Revised September 3, 2026 · replaces the April 1, 2025 revision

Audit programs (8)

Case law this week(21)

The most authoritative forum first: the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims, GAO, the boards of contract appeals and SBA OHA. Within each, decisions that granted relief lead.

Court of Federal Claims (3 new)

GAO bid protests (5 new)

3 denied2 dismissed
  • Aim for AdVantage, LLCDismissed

    Decided August 31, 2026 · B-424433.23 · Department of the Army

  • GSI Pacific, Inc.Denied

    Decided August 27, 2026 · B-424511.3,B-424511.4 · Department of the Navy

    GSI asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its phase I proposal.

  • FCN Inc.Dismissed

    Decided August 21, 2026 · B-424695 · Defense Intelligence Agency

    Invictus solicited quotations from subcontractors to support a task order competed under the SITE III contract, and the protester contends that the agency unreasonably determined that FCN has an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) and "directed that FCN could not participate" in that procurement.

    Organizational Conflict of Interest
  • C.H. Guernsey & CompanyDenied

    Decided August 12, 2026 · B-424484,B-424484.2 · Defense Logistics Agency

    Technical EvaluationBest-Value / Source Selection
  • LOGMET LLCDenied

    Decided August 7, 2026 · B-424477,B-424477.2 · U.S. Coast Guard

    The protester contends that the agency unreasonably failed to evaluate LOGMET's lowest-priced quotation, conducted unfair exchanges, and disparately evaluated quotations.

ASBCA (5 new)

CBCA (6 new)

1 granted in part4 settled1 ruled on a motion

SBA OHA appeals (2 new)

1 dismissed

False Claims Act enforcement(3)

Department of Justice releases that involve federal procurement, largest recovery first.

Franklin Towne Charter High School and Its Former CEO Agree to Pay Nearly $4 Million to Resolve Claim of Racial Discrimination in Admissions Process
SettlementDepartment of Education

$4,000,000 · Franklin Towne Charter High School and Its Former CEO · Published September 4, 2026

Ohio State University Agrees to $2.1M Settlement to Resolve Allegations that it Failed to Disclose Employees’ Ties to the People’s Republic of China in Applications for Federal Research Funding
SettlementNASA

$2,100,000 · Ohio State University · Published August 31, 2026

Honeywell Aerospace Inc. Agrees to Pay Over $2M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations of Failing to Comply with Cybersecurity Requirements in a U.S. Department of Defense Contract
SettlementDepartment of WarQui tam

$2,000,000 · Honeywell Aerospace Inc. · Published September 1, 2026

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