Law360, New York ( November 18, 2014, 12:05 PM EST) -- When making a strategic acquisition, the central goal of a government contractor is to buy the target company's government contracts. Transferring government contracts, however, is prohibited under federal law by the Anti-Assignment Act enacted in the mid-19th century. The policy behind this basic tenet of public contracts law is the premise that the government has selected a particular contractor through the procurement process and that contractor is the party who will perform the work....
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