Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It wants to amend the fiscal 2020 Defense authorization bill, which included the Fair Chance Act, commonly referred to as “Ban the Box,” to transfer the complaint procedures assigned to GSA and the Department of Defense to the Department of Labor. “It The third request to Congress is not new this year, but one GSA has suggested before.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 15, 2024

Finally, the vast majority of African states (forty-two out of fifty-four) have now adopted the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards , including Malawi, Sierre Leone, Ethiopia, and the Seychelles since 2020. What Is the Future for Arbitration in Africa?

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Import and Trade Remedies

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Starmer has previously said he will seek a better trade deal with the EU than the one negotiated by the previous UK government at the end of 2020, which is to be reviewed in 2025-26.

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ivalua

JUNE 16, 2021

In fact, a survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that 96% of respondents from the Middle East region were reconfiguring their supply chains in October 2020 — much higher than the global average of 83%. There are several reasons: Revenue from oil and tourism dropped abruptly in 2020.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 20, 2024

In May 2020, Konecranes completed construction of the first of four cranes. While the parties negotiated whether to implement the Navy’s proposed corrective action, Konecranes made the correction it deemed necessary in order to continue making progress on the four cranes.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 31, 2024

71,508-2022; CS of January 16, 2023, Rol 3,545-2022; CS of July 29, 2021, Rol 104,262-2020). On February 6, 2020, the Buyer paid the Seller – as an advance payment and against the fixed price – the total amount of USD 101,250.

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Select GCR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Adherence to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and maintaining thorough documentation are non-negotiable requirements. In 2020, contracts aimed at small businesses, disadvantaged businesses, women-owned businesses, HubZone businesses, and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses amounted to $144 billion.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Procedure to use WTO Committees The procedure to use WTO Committees functions similar to the WTO negotiating procedure. For inclusion, see for example, recitals 26-27 to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1336 of 25 September 2020 imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain polyvinyl alcohols from China. [2]

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere , a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St. Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. has gone live with Ivalua’s Source to Contract solution.

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Public Contracting Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

On May 27, 2020, the government unilaterally executed a modification which fully terminated the contract for the government’s convenience. Second, the Board noted that a TSP typically converts to a CDA claim only after negotiations reach an impasse, at a point when the contracting demands a final decision.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2020, Ivalua was named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner “ Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites ” and by Forrester Research Inc. in “ The Forrester Wave : Supplier Risk And Performance Management (SRPM) Platforms, Q3 2020.” Specific release highlights include: Supplier Management Innovations: .

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

10, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 42 at 4-5 n. This means that the government and private companies have more flexibility in negotiating the terms and conditions of OTA, as compared to standard contract vehicles. M); System Architecture Information Technology , B-418721, June 2, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 184 at 2; MD Helicopters, Inc.,

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The underlying appeal dated back to 2014, but the government chose to wait until 2020, after earlier negotiations and a nine-day merits hearing, to challenge the Board’s jurisdiction. Army reversed longstanding precedent that a claim must state a “sum certain” for a board or court to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As to the first claim, the Arbitral Award established that COVID-19 had caused a significant financial imbalance to the Concession Agreement, the execution of which continued throughout 2020 under severely worsened financial conditions. By way of background, under Decree-Law no.

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University of Bristol

APRIL 6, 2020

As of 30 March 2020, all EU countries, the UK and two EEA countries had signed the JPA, with some very recent COVID-19 related additions to the list of signatories (Sweden, Poland, Norway, Finland and Iceland). . *

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

JUNE 24, 2022

All DoD contracts entered into after November 30, 2020, are required to include DFARS 252.204-7020 (DoD Assessment Requirements). Conclusion The long and short of it is Read Your Contract! Search for DFARS 252.204-7012 and DFARS 252.204-7020.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 14, 2024

3802803 of 2020. A motion was brought by Uber to stay the proceedings in favour of arbitration in the Netherlands in accordance of their UberEats service agreement signed by the drivers, the terms of service which form part of standard form non-negotiable agreements. Bhaskar Raju judgment. Indo Unique Flame Ltd. CIVIL APPEAL NO(S).

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere, a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St. Healthcare supply chain GPO, Intalere, deploys an end-to-end Source to Contract solution across its purchasing functions. has gone live with Ivalua’s Source to Contract solution.

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Supply Chain Contract Purchasing End to End 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Yet in 2020, over two million people purchased goods online. According to Raydiant’s second annual State of Consumer Behavior Report, 46% of respondents said they prefer to shop in person rather than online, if given the choice. Attack GNFR Spend. Goods not for resale are a huge cost-center, especially in the post-Covid-19 era.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

in the first half of 2020 due to the explosion in global demand and broken supply chains have highlighted the key role suppliers play, as well as the critical need for effective supplier relationship management. Supplier Relationship Management – time to rewrite the rule-book? It doesn’t provide any real insight into the supplier.

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ivalua

JULY 21, 2020

The Hackett Group study, “ Strengthening the Procurement-IT Partnership Elevating performance and accelerating value ”, July 2020 is one of a series of great reports which seek to provide guidance on what Procurement teams are doing well and on how they can improve. Agreement on the table stakes, non-negotiable .

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

According to UNCTAD , in 2020, a violation of FET was alleged in “over 80 percent of known ISDS cases”, and “in cases decided in favor of the investor, breaches of the FET provision were the most commonly found violation”. See, e.g., Brazil-India BIT (2020) ; Brazil-Ethiopia BIT (2018) ; Brazil-Malawi BIT (2015).)

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 9, 2024

In 2021, after reviewing the Fiscal Year 2020 evaluation results, GSA decided that the “TDR Pilot” was eligible for expansion. It is a management challenge, as well as an opportunity, to move from negotiations based on MFC to a more traditional Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 15.404 like analysis under TDR.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The FICC then carefully examined the parties’ negotiation history, particularly as it relates to the arbitration clause. The parties then engaged in further negotiations regarding other clauses in the contract, but the arbitration clause remained unchanged. The FICC first affirmed its jurisdiction to review this issue.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 30, 2024

In Brazil, however, a study coordinated by Center for Access to Justice, Process and Dispute Resolution Means (Najupmesc) at Fundação Getúlio Vargas’ Sao Paulo Law School and Canal Arbitragem in 2023, showed that the use of mediation in Brazil has grown in the last 10 years, especially during the pandemic, in 2020 and 2021 (see here ).

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

2020-14, Final Award, Dec. After several months of negotiations and two Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to try and resolve the problems, the contract was terminated by MOPC in February 2020. 2020-14, Final Award, Dec. Paraguay (the “ State ” or “ MOPC ”) 1) Mota-Engil Ingeniería y Construcción S.A. Sucursal Paraguay v.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

First, UK goods trade with the EU fell by more than 30% at the start of 2020 (Compared to 2019) and didn’t recover. The UK government has been negotiating trade deals with Australia, New Zealand and the US to meet their domestic demands. Pre-Brexit trade predictions estimated a 15% decline in UK imports and exports.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The agreements were not drafted, negotiated, or signed by the father or his sons. The SFSC found that the sole arbitrator rightly affirmed his jurisdiction. Within the group, the companies concluded several loan agreements and a debt assumption agreement.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Indirect Procurement was really challenged by the onset of the pandemic in 2020 where the vast majority of workers shifted, literally overnight to home working and businesses had to find new office equipment including laptops and also cost effective ways of ensuring broadband connectivity and so on.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 20, 2024

One solution is for legal teams to establish record processes at the time contracts are being negotiated. The negotiation team being most of the time different from the executing team, gathering all relevant knowledge about a case or a contract requires an in-house counsel to grab information from other persons involved in the project.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The aim should be to promptly crystallise their claim and actively participate in the insolvency process through negotiations with the resolution professional and coordination with other creditors, to ensure that their claim is recorded in the resolution plan itself.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

At Ivalua NOW 2020, commercial real estate leader JLL’s president explained how they were building a marketplace to offer customers access to pre-negotiated pricing, using their spend to differentiate their services.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

However, such developments do open up the possibility of Australia advancing an “investment court” alternative to ISDS when reviewing older IIAs and negotiating new ones.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

After protracted negotiations, EU procurement law now comprises a set of three instruments seeking to rebalance the (complete) openness of EU procurement markets. This is an area where EU law has recently generated significant developments.

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Import and Trade Remedies

AUGUST 30, 2023

In January 2020, the group announced proposed reforms to WTO rules, apparently aimed at targeting alleged trade-distorting subsidies used by China to support strategic industries. But the EU’s submission and the September meeting are no more than stepping stones to initiate negotiations at MC13.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 15, 2024

The Court of Appeal had previously upheld a final decision by the Tehran Civil Court, in which the Tehran Civil Court had annulled a PCA arbitration award dated September 30, 2020 and issued in favor of Jam Petrochemical Company. This award ordered Mehr Petrochemical to pay a sizeable compensation of approximately USD 872.3

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The most common grounds for direct awards of new contracts under Regulation 32 (use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 include where: No tenders or suitable tenders have been submitted in a previously advertised open or restricted procedure. These are narrowly interpreted.

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