A complete practitioner's treatment of federal procurement for contractor counsel, agency lawyers, and anyone who has to read a three-hundred-page solicitation and advise on it. Parts I through IV cover the regulatory architecture of the FAR and its agency supplements, contract types and the multiple-award vehicles through which most federal dollars now move, the competition requirement of CICA and its exceptions, and how source selection evaluations are actually conducted and documented. Parts V and VI cover bid protests in all three forums, the timeliness and waiver rules that dispose of more protests than the merits ever do, the grounds that genuinely win, and the statutory bar that quietly removes most task orders from review. Parts VII through X cover contract administration and the authority problem, the changes and delay doctrines through which contractors actually recover, the jurisdictional mechanics of Contract Disputes Act claims and the certification that converts an inflated demand into a fraud case, and terminations for convenience and default. Parts XI through XIV cover certified cost or pricing data, the Cost Accounting Standards, the FAR Part 31 cost principles and the audit regime, the small business programs with their affiliation and subcontracting traps, the compliance overlay ending in suspension and debarment, and the subcontract layer where privity problems live. Part XV is a verification list to run before bid, before claim, and before signature.