Legal Opinion
Rothe Development Corporation v. United States Department of Defense and United States Department of the Air Force
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 20, 2001No. 00-1171PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
This federal contract case concerns the constitutionality of § 1207 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 1987 (“the 1207 program”), Pub.L. No. 99-661, 100 Stat. 3859, 3973 (1986) (as amended), codified at 10 U.S.C. § 2323 (1994), which permits the United States Department of Defense (“DOD”) to preferentially select bids submitted by small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (“SDBs”). The 1207 program operates by increasing the bid of a non-minority-owned firm by up to ten percent via a mechanism called a “price-evaluation”…
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