The Contract Law Division provides legal advice to Department of Commerce officials on all matters of Federal procurement law. Division attorneys represent the Department in claims and protest litigation before the various administrative tribunals. Attorneys also serve as liason to the Department of Justice for matters before the courts.

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Site Contents and Links

1. Hot Items of Interest to Procurement Officials

• Federal Acquisition Regulation (Proposed/Final Rules)
• Legislative Items
• Other Proposed and Final Regulations
• Other News and Items of interest
• Current Events Calendar
  

2. E-Commerce
3. Contract Law Division Bi-Weekly Reports
4. Lawyer's View articles by Contract Law Division Staff
5. Draft Outline of the Government Procurement System
6. Recent Decisions

• United States Supreme Court
• Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Court of Federal Claims
• Circuit Courts
• Other Courts
• General Accounting Office-2001 to Present
      General Accounting Office-Prior to 2001
• Boards of Contract Appeals
• Government Printing Office Board of Contract Appeals

Bi-Weekly Division Reports

Bi-weekly summary of significant actions performed by Division attorneys.

Division Lawyer's View Publications (All-Past and Recent Issues)

A Lawyers's View is a periodic publication by the attorneys in the Contract Law Division which discuss matters of interest to Department procurement officials. All files are in an Adobe Acrobat format.

Recent issues of A Lawyer's View include:

• Contract Bundling, June 06, 2002
• Informalities and Irregularities, January 22, 2001
• Source Selection Documentation, January 17, 2001
• Green Contracting, August 8, 2000
• Performance Based Service Contracting, March 24, 2000

Draft- Outline of the United States Civilian Procurement System