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GSA closes in on enterprisewide software deal with Microsoft

Federal News Network

The Government Accountability Office found last January that out of the 24 agencies they reviewed for software licenses management, Microsoft was the most common, with agencies reporting it 36 times for a total of about $2.4 billion in spending. Microsoft is the first of what is expected to be many enterprisewide deals.

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Price Reasonableness Analysis: A Bid Evaluation Stage in Public and Project Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

In the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Program Procurement Guidelines (PPG) and the accompanying MCC Procurement Guidance Note: Price-Reasonableness Analysis (MCC-PGN-PRA) used by Millennium Challenge Accounts (MCAs) around the world, price analysis is a mandatory requirement during bid evaluation. According to Section 6.4

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Delhi Arbitration Weekend 2024: India and the Evolving Nature of Investor State Dispute Settlement

Kluwer Arbitration

He supported this position by referring to India’s termination of 76 of 87 of its BITs in 2016. Ever since then, the Indian government has taken a more cautious approach with the 2016 India Model BIT (“India Model BIT”). Rowley, KC observed that treaties have to be negotiated like contracts. Where do We Stand?

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KluwerArbitration ITA Arbitration Report, Volume No. XXII, Issue No. 6 (June 2022)

Kluwer Arbitration

1090/2016, 31 December 2018 Ismail Selim, Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (“CRCICA”), ITA Reporter for the CRCICA CRCICA Case No. 1090/2016 (First Industry Operator v. The ITA Board of Reporters has reported on the following awards. First Industry Operator v.

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Challenging Other Transaction Agreements – Navigating the Jurisdictional Highway

Government Contracts & Investigations

Although OTAs have been around for many years, since 2016 their use has, to use a pun, skyrocketed. Because it is likely that an agency may use a contract to procure these supplies, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) does not consider § 4023 an OTA statute. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, Pub.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

That way, price adjustments can expediently be made, and contract performance can progress, without the contracting office and the contractor driving themselves mad over constant accounting drills. Arguably, a negligent negotiations assertion does not alter the elements of a superior knowledge claim. 1) A FAR EPA clause cuts both ways.

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SBA Proposed Rule Would Enact Material Changes as Well as Promote Regulatory Uniformity Across Size and Status Programs

Government Contracts Legal Forum

While SBA’s commentary on the roll-out of the All-Small Mentor-Protégé Program in 2016 made clear that only for-profit entities could be mentors, SBA is now proposing to make this clear in its regulations (at 13 C.F.R. SBA’s Proposed Roll-out of New 13 C.F.R. Clarifying that Non-Profits May Not Be Mentors.