Federal Circuit strengthens protections against arbitrary CICA stay overrides

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a significant decision today clarifying both judicial review of CICA stay overrides and the standard a protester must satisfy to obtain relief when an agency overrides the automatic stay. In Life Science Logistics, LLC v. United States (1:23-cv-02116-ZNS), Chief Judge Moore authored a unanimous opinion affirming the Court of Federal Claims' ruling that the General Services Administration's (“GSA”) override of the Competition in Contracting... By: Hogan Lovells