An interesting situation and commentary by Bill Spriggs, a GovCon lawyer who writes interesting articles regularly at: Spriggs Law Group
Yesterday, a contracting officer told a contractor to decrease its price by 10% “for sequestration related cuts, without any changes to contractual services levels.” Yes, believe it or not, one of our government employees, with a warrant, who is supposed to be the conscience of our system, asked a contractor to provide the same level of service for 10% less money. This is unconscionable behavior. Sequestration may cause a reduction in services and therefore the price of those services. But it is strikingly unfair and unjust (the meaning of unconscionable) to require a contractor to provide the same services for less money. Naturally, the contractor did not agree but offered to provide reduced services for a reduced price. That sounds reasonable.
Full article: http://spriggslawgroup.blogspot.com/2013/03/unconscionable-censorship-by-government.html