Federal News Network

JUNE 28, 2024

More House appropriators target federal telework, office space - Fedeal News Network) Two Defense Department projects made the cut for the Presidential Federal Sustainability Awards the White House announced this week. GAO has not updated the Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government since 2014.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Last week in Rome, we brought together over 100 leaders from 26 European governments , EU institutions, global organizations like the World Bank, OECD, EBRD, and UNOPS, civil society, and the private sector for the 3rd International Open and Sustainable Public Procurement Conference 2024. This trend started long before Covid.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office’s HR team recognized that its method of performance evaluation, which was time-consuming and required extensive spreadsheets and paper forms, was no longer sustainable. Beckwith earned a bachelor’s in human resource management from Saint Leo University in 2014 and became SHRM certified in 2016.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 22, 2024

The outdated perception of cloud being expensive stems from a narrow focus on migration costs , ignoring long-term value such as increased productivity, resilience, agility, and sustainability. Unlike over-provisioning on premises, cloud dynamically adjusts resources, minimizing excess costs. billion in Canada between 2022 and 2037.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This has been evidenced in a recent wave of academic discussion on whether there is a general principle of competition at all in Directive 2014/24/EU, what is its normative status and how it ranks vis-à-vis sustainability and environmental considerations, and what are its practical implications for the interpretation and application of EU public procurement (..)

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Then in June, the Economy and Fair Work Committee concluded their post-legislative scrutiny of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act from 2014. And even more important that we see a real focus on environmental sustainability. We see them delivering savings, increased community benefits.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 25, 2024

In an effort to increase FDI, Mongolia’s State Minerals Policy of 2014 called for developing a transparent and responsible mining industry driven by the private sector, while fostering a stable investment climate. While Mongolia’s current focus on regulatory reforms and compliance with international treaties is a positive shift, the U.S.

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

That adds up to the 18-percentage point increase between 2014 and 2019. Achieving these goals will go a long way in promoting the use of debt as an instrument for sustainable development. Since 2020 public debt levels rose by 15 percentage points (pp) of the region’s gross domestic product, to 71 percent.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 15, 2024

Latin America and the Caribbean are at a crossroads of environmental sustainability and inclusive development; and public governance plays a critical role in a fair green transition, especially given existing inequalities, limited fiscal capacity, and deteriorating public trust. Available in English and Spanish.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 21, 2023

” Technology should reduce intermediation costs so that we can spend more time mobilizing the grassroots and engaging in informed and sustained collective action. We could have developed the FOCO app in 2014 already.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 29, 2024

After discussing the drawbacks of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investor obligations, the post will put forward its own proposal of a legality clause with a “sustainable-development” element. Al-Warraq v Republic of Indonesia , UNCITRAL, Final Award (15 December 2014), para.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 12, 2024

AWS hosts National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6) data through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This map of the world shows much of it in a redder (warmer) shade.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 4, 2024

This is, in the words of Italy’s diplomacy , “to have secure, stable and predictable supplies at competitive prices for households and businesses, without failing to meet the binding commitment to long-term sustainability…” under the Paris Agreement.

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ivalua

JULY 6, 2021

In 2014, the European Union took steps to encourage supplier diversity by implementing a social procurement policy. Social Procurement Framework in European Union.

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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

What’s more, efforts to regularly classify such spending are stymied by the limitations of countries’ public expenditure management and classification systems, as well as by the growing demand for information for sustainable development that adds complexity for data collection and classification.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At the appeal stage, the Portuguese State successfully sustained that the COVID-19 pandemic should have been considered a force majeure event under the Concession Agreement and that the arbitral tribunal should therefore have excluded the applicability of the change in circumstances institute.

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FedInsider

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2014, Dr. Crosby supported MARFORCOM G-6 before transitioning to HQMC DC, Plans, Policies, & Operations to as their SharePoint and Collaboration subject matter expert. Crosby was assigned to the U.S. DLA is the U.S.

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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

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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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. Each of these criteria are explained in more detail in the proposal’s Annex.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

An analysis comparing the years before and after the rule revision shows a sustained interest in administered international arbitrations, indicating that the combination of legislative updates and institutional enhancements resonates well with both domestic and international parties.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In 2014, South Africa terminated its BITs with six European countries and in 2015 passed the Protection of Investment Act (“PIA”) , which will eventually replace all BITs. The PIA, which came into effect in 2018, introduced several changes.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The plan includes five FOCAL Priority Areas considered essential to aligning with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014. GAO sustained the protest. [1] James Peake , M.D., CISA’s plan focuses on operational cybersecurity, defined as “the daily activities and processes used to ensure cybersecurity.”

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Sustainable Excellence Award – Presented to a government agency or contractor that has made outstanding contributions that meet the Federal Government’s sustainability goals. James Peake , M.D.,

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 10, 2024

During the training, Jason, Liam, and Alex will cover the following topics and more: Pricing – Transactional Data Reporting (TDR)/Commercial Sales Practices (CSP); Domestic Preferences; Supply Chain; Enforcement/Mandatory Disclosure/Ethics; Sustainability Requirements/Policy; and Bid Protests Update. James Peake , M.D.,

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Expect to gain a deeper understanding of how the alignment of AI and data management can unleash sustained and responsible value within Federal agencies. James Peake , M.D., Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be part of crucial conversations that will shape the future of Federal agency operations.

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Procurement Notes

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

2014), cert. 12, 2014)) (Through these repeated communications, appellant converted its routine request for payment into a claim within the meaning of FAR 2.101, and the law imposes no requirement of proof of performance to convert an invoice into a claim after it becomes disputed or is not timely acted upon. ); see also FAR 33.206(a). [28]

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For significant inflation, especially over a sustained time period where there may be multiple adjustments, the superior approach seems to be an Agency-designed clause which relies upon a cost index. The Federal Supply Schedule (“FSS”) provides a third EPA clause, I-FSS-969 (Economic Price Adjustment—FSS Multiple Award Schedule (OCT 2014)).

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2024

They sustained the protest because of the different statutory, regulatory, and factual posture of the case as compared to its earlier Sevatec [16] decision. Jan 2014). [7] May 2014). [9] 17] DFARS 208.404 & DoD Class Deviation 2014-O0011. [18] 17] DFARS 208.404 & DoD Class Deviation 2014-O0011. [18]

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Close Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mission Support, EPA Rachel Ross × Rachel Ross Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer Ms. Rachel Posner Ross serves as the Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). As a member of the Senior Executive Service, Ms.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson recently visited the office of Rafael Systems Global Sustainment President and CEO Joseph Anderson and presented him with the 2025 Wash100 Award.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 9, 2025

The amendments brought with the 2024 NAI Arbitration Rules have been made in a spirit of modernisation by addressing contemporaneous concerns such as transparency, efficiency, or sustainability. This agreement predated the BIT.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 25, 2025

2014] SGCA 40 53]. In practice, efficiency cannot give in to due process as they jointly sustain international arbitration [Menon, p. discussed here ). In practice, awards will not be set aside merely because a party is disgruntled with the outcome [see, for example, BLC and Ors. v BLB and Anor.

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