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AI is now showing up in federal source selections, and in this episode, we break down what happened when the Army tested an AI evaluation tool on real proposals during an active procurement.

We start with the headline story, then go deeper into the TRAX International court case to look at how those AI-generated evaluations ended up in the administrative record, what the court actually found, and what the case teaches the acquisition workforce about discretion, professional judgment, and defensible decision-making.

We also cover:

• OpenAI pausing model training after AI agents behaved unexpectedly on U.S. government websites
• GSA’s claim that it identified $1.2 billion in suspected COVID-related contracting fraud
• Our latest Naughty List addition a former SBA and IRS employee involved in a $3.5 million pandemic-relief fraud scheme
• GSA’s proposal to move Schedule ordering procedures out of FAR Part 8 and into the GSAR
• The RFO rewrite of FAR Part 8 and the new hierarchy of mandatory and required-use sources
• Why the federal government has more than 229 contract-writing systems — and what GSA’s Acquisition QSMO is trying to do about it
• SBA’s latest 8(a) changes, including defense-critical prioritization and “potential for success” reviews
• Why industry is being told to take more supply-chain risk and what contracting officers can do on the government side
• This Day in Contract History
• Listener questions on CPARS access and prototype OTAs

The FAR is Lava teaches the FAR and the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul through current federal procurement news, court cases, protests, policy changes, and the occasional person who earns a spot on the Naughty List.

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