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GSA closes in on enterprisewide software deal with Microsoft

Federal News Network

But OFPP believes the time is ripe to reduce price variance, secure most favorable terms and conditions and improve the federal cyber posture. Currently, prices routinely vary up to 20% for the same software across agencies, OMB wrote in its fact sheet about BCI in 2023. GSAs optimism for this time is based on several factors.

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

The Procurement ClassRoom

Price analysis can be considered a stage of bid evaluation depending on the provisions of a legal and regulatory framework. It is an assessment of the evaluated price of a responsive bid to ascertain that it is not unreasonably high nor unreasonably low, but fair enough to the procuring entity and the supplier.

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Whistleblower Suits Lead to Massive Rite Aid Settlements Relating to Opioid Dispensing and Reporting Rebates

Whistleblower Network News

This allows the government to receive the benefit of any price concessions provided by drug manufacturers. Rite Aid and its Elixir subsidiaries lined their corporate pockets with millions of dollars of manufacturer rebates that should have been reported to Medicare,” said U.S. .

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A dispute over government audit rights in hybrid contracts

Federal News Network

Parts of it were fixed price and parts of it were cost-plus. And so when DOE you wanted to see their internal records, it sounds like the company was worried that they would see the DOE would see their records concerned with the fixed price, which is none of the government’s business. So in 2019, DOE did that with HPM.

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Guiding Cases 199-201 Issued by the PRC Supreme People’s Court—Further Steps Toward a Pro-Arbitration Regime

Kluwer Arbitration

and Singapore 2) For example, under the Payment Services Act 2019 of Singapore , cryptocurrencies are considered digital payment tokens regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In determining the value of the bitcoins, the tribunal referred to the bitcoin price provided on the Okcoin website.

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The Withdrawal by the EU and some Member States from the Energy Charter Treaty: International Protection for Energy Investments and Climate Change Related Carve-outs

Kluwer Arbitration

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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New research from Ivalua shows UK businesses’ cost focused approach with suppliers is blocking innovation 

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London, UK – December 5, 2019 – Research from Ivalua , a global leader in spend management cloud solutions , has shown that two thirds (67%) of UK businesses say innovation is being blocked by a focus on cost reduction. The more innovative suppliers are in a position where they can now pick and choose who they work with.