Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 16, 2024

Not only was the whistleblowers’ information key for resolving alleged misuse of Medicare Part B between 2014 and 2017, but they also assisted the settlement of “false claims to Medicare by billing for diagnostic imaging procedures” from 2014 to 2021. These acts went against the Stark Law, or the Physician Self-Referral Law.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

The goal: to bring accountability and consistency to the performance management process, boosting morale and improving retention over the long term. Beckwith earned a bachelor’s in human resource management from Saint Leo University in 2014 and became SHRM certified in 2016. Recognizing the need According to the U.S.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

COMET replaced the CIO Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Operations (CAMEO) procurement that GSA awarded in 2014 to a host of large and small businesses with a total ceiling of $400 million. COMET was so successful that GSA on-ramped several new small businesses after the initial awardees grew too big.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 28, 2024

An examination of DOD’s struggling background check system - House Oversight and Accountability Committee ) For the first time in a decade, the Government Accountability Office is out with a proposed revision of federal internal controls. GAO has not updated the Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government since 2014.

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University of Bristol

JULY 15, 2018

Under the Web Accessibility Directive, this translates into an obligation for public sector bodies to ensure that their websites and apps comply with a 2014 EU standard adapted to the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) at level AA (currently WCAG 2.0).

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Federal News Network

APRIL 5, 2024

The guidance , which hasn’t been updated since 2020 and hasn’t seen a significant update since OMB issued the initial standards in 2014, aims to revamp the grants oversight and delivery process in several ways. First, OMB says it instructs agencies to make grant announcements as clear and concise as possible. It makes compliance easier.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 25, 2024

However, the tribunal did find that Mongolia breached the fair and equitable treatment protection in the BIT by taking ownership of the gold, exporting it abroad for refining, and depositing it or its value in an unallocated account in England to increase the country’s currency reserves. In 2020, the mining sector accounted for 21.6%

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 13, 2024

Launching the CSP with AWS CSS worked closely with AWS from the outset of the CSP project launch in 2014. Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I will not focus on the detail of procurement rules, which is better left to in-depth analysis (eg Arrowsmith [2014] and [2018] , Steinicke and Vesterdorf [2018] , or Caranta and Sanchez-Graells [2021] ). Regulation in the EU and the UK , vols 1 & 2 (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2014 and 2018).

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

It takes into account components like Cost, Quality, and Technicality of various bid proposals while deciding a contract award. This criterion of selecting the tender was announced by European Parliament in January 2014.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Blanket Purchase Agreement (“BPA”) is a “simplified method filling anticipated repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing ‘charge accounts’ with qualified sources of supply. FAR 13.303-1(a). Crewzers Fire Crew Transp., United States , 741 F.3d 3d 1380 (Fed.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

JANUARY 19, 2024

We will address the applicable Cost Principles (FAR 31.202 and FAR 31.203) as well as the overlapping provisions of the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) (CAS 402 and CAS 418), which include closely related but significantly more detailed (burdensome) requirements for CAS-covered contractors. 3] A “final cost objective” is generally a contract.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This part of the dispute concerned the definition of ‘public works contracts’ under Directive 2014/24/EU (issue 1). Framing: Directive 2004/18/EC, Directive 2014/24/EU, or it does not matter? This part of the dispute thus concerns the effect of State aid decisions relating to aid packages with a procurement element (issue 2).

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

To reduce inefficiencies and fraud, grant activities are governed by several regulations including these two relatively recently enacted laws: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – This law expands on federal awards reporting reforms that began with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Taking into account national climate commitments and other mitigation measures, the world is now on track for a global temperature rise of 2.7 °C Included in the IMF’s 2014 Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, the COFOG breaks down data on government expenditure into ten main categories according to their function, or purpose.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 10, 2025

DL issued various informal rulings in 2014, known as Psak Din. As the proceedings progressed, however, the claim morphed into one against the Son to account for the money he removed from SAS. For this reason, the Father claimed that the Sin was accountable to him for these amounts. In relation to the Out of Scope Defence, Mr.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 26, 2024

Temnikov, A Procrustean Bed: Pre- and Post-award Interest in ICSID Arbitrations, ICSID Review, 2014, Vol. 1325) Tribunals considered that compounding interest corresponds to the economic reality since “even if the funds had simply been deposited in a bank account generating interest, that interest would have been compounded.” (see

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Background The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is a federal law that was passed in 2002 with the goal of improving auditing and public disclosure in response to several accounting scandals which shook financial markets. 1514A, which prohibits publicly-traded companies from retaliating against whistleblowing employees. . Supreme Court in Lawson v.

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GovSpend

APRIL 29, 2024

Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act : Signed into law in 2014, the DATA Act builds upon FFATA by mandating standardized reporting of federal spending data.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The schedules program GSA’s schedules program accounts for more than $40 billion per year in federal spending, with three quarters of the spend on services as opposed to products. The program is still an ordering contracting officer’s best friend, as it enables rapid fulfillment of mission needs at fair and reasonable prices.

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The Contractor's Perspective

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2014-2016, Congress authorized the Department of Energy to make transfers of $45 million to the DPA Fund from the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy account. Title IIII of the DPA establishes the Defense Production Act Fund (“DPA Fund”), which is available to carry out Title III’s provisions and purposes.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Prioritize as a key contract consideration the handling of data, including procedures for data management, accountability, and access. James Peake , M.D., Include cost estimates for post-award oversight, risk management, maintenance, and corrective action in budgeting for procurements.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Crimean Cases After Russia took control of Crimea in 2014, a number of Ukrainian nationals started arbitral proceedings against Russia under the Russia-Ukraine BIT, seeking compensation for alleged losses incurred in relation to investments made in the region.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The investor-Maya Dangelas was born in Vietnam and became a naturalised American citizen in 2014, which made the basis of rationae personae jurisdictional objection by Vietnam before the tribunal. In 2014, the majority of the tribunal had upheld its jurisdiction.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 20, 2024

In that case, the court concluded that crypto assets held by an exchange were held on trust for account holders. Instances like the D’Aloia v (1) Persons Unknown (2) Binance Holdings Limited & Others highlight attempts to hold exchanges accountable for facilitating fraudulent activities. Cryptopia as an illustration.

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The Contractor's Perspective

MAY 25, 2023

Failing to raise the debt ceiling by that date would be unprecedented and, by most accounts, would have dire consequences for the economy. In theory, the funds necessary to pay the contractor for the work were already authorized and appropriated and are allocated to the contract in the agency’s account.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 15, 2024

Since the two institutions teamed up to launch the first study for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014, the series has been downloaded more than half a million times from the websites of the two organizations. This means governments need to be more transparent and accountable for their decisions. Available in English and Spanish.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Louis Dreyfus Armatures SAS & Ors , 2014 SCC OnLine Cal 17695. Mr. Dsouza criticised this 65% settlement figure for sums awarded by the arbitral tribunal as being arbitrary and failing to account for the extensive time and resources that parties invest in the arbitration process before an award is secured.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 7, 2023

New Model for Monitoring State-Owned Enterprises Taking all these issues into account and the experience and knowledge we have gathered from the field, the authors of this post propose an alternative policy recommendation. DOI: [link] World Bank (2014), “SOE Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit”, World Bank, Washington, DC.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 22, 2024

Regarding investment, the largest CSPs have invested almost $4 billion in Canadian digital infrastructure since 2014 , with AWS alone planning to invest $24.8 Contact your AWS account team or the AWS Public Sector team in Canada for guidance on leveraging the cloud for digital transformation. billion in Canada between 2022 and 2037.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 7, 2024

XX/2014 (Operator v. During the contract execution by the Claimant, the Respondent stopped paying for the delivered goods, assuring the Claimant that the debt would be repaid later, stating that the lack of payment was caused by the seizure of his accounts by the Federal Tax Service. Second Industry Operator (Award), CRCICA Case No.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 19, 2024

Following an award on jurisdiction and liability in 2014 , in CGC’s favour, and several unsuccessful challenges by NIOC under s.67 Notably, the Fund’s 1976 accounts recorded the loan to NIOC and did not include NIOC House as an asset of the Fund. In 2003, CPCIL assigned its rights under the GSPC to its wholly owned subsidiary, CGC.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

NHS commissioning is currently subjected to both the Public Procurement Regulations 2015 (PCR2015, aka the UK’s copy-out transposition of Directive 2014/24/EU) and the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In September 2014, a three-member arbitral tribunal issued the final award (“ Award ”) directing Avitel, its founder, and directors (“ Award Debtors ”) to pay USD 60 million as damages to HSBC. However, HSBC subsequently discovered that the invested money was siphoned off to different companies which led to the arbitration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 10, 2024

According to the tribunal, Norway’s hesitation in declaring crabs as sedentary species before 2014 was understandable when one considers the circumstances of the cases, specifically the fact that snow crabs had only recently begun to appear in the Loophole area (para.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 22, 2024

In December 2014, Colombia’s national environmental authority issued Resolution 2090 , delimiting the Santurbán Páramo in an almost identical area as the one contained in the 2007 Páramo Atlas, which overlapped with the area of Red Eagle’s mining titles.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 24, 2024

In December 2014, Colombia’s national environmental authority issued Resolution 2090 , delimiting the Santurbán Páramo in an almost identical area as the one contained in the 2007 Páramo Atlas, which overlapped with the area of Red Eagle’s mining titles.

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