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Proposed Increases to Micro-Purchase, Simplified Acquisition, and Other Thresholds

SmallGovCon

1908 to adjust the statutory acquisition thresholds for inflation, such as the Micro-Purchase Threshold, Simplified Acquisition Threshold, and others. It just so happens that the last such adjustment occurred back in 2020. Here are some of the proposed new thresholds for the FAR. million to $9.5 FAR 19.502-2.

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What the Covid inquiry is telling us about the UK preparedness in early 2020

Telles.eu

Back in 2020 (and 2021) I went out on a limb stating that when it come down to the pandemic preparation in early 2020, ie before March 23rd the UK government did not take the risk of Covid seriously enough and did not act when it should. In early 2022 1.5b

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The FBI is using AI to mine threat tips, but isn’t sharing much detail

FedScoop

And they appear to show that the FBI was looking at this tool from 2019 to 2020, and then picked up interest again in the technology relatively recently. Due to the significant volume of social media posts, only posts that score above a designated threshold are forwarded to the system for review.”

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NDAA 2020 - Post-Award Explanations for Unsuccessful Offerors

PNWC's Government Contracting Update

The President has now signed the 2020 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). First, the simplified acquisition threshold currently sits at $150 thousand but there is a FAR proposal on the table that will increase that threshold to $250 thousand. There are several things to note here. Second, the request must be in writing.

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Bid Protest Minute: The High Bar to Proving Contract Officer Bias

GovCon & Trade

The evidentiary threshold to proving CO bias is extremely high. 9, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 397 at 5.) While performing on the incumbent contract, Texas Waste escalated a complaint about the CO’s handling of a request for equitable adjustment, and then he was removed from the contract. B-418123.4,

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Congress presses VA on modernization overhaul, supply chain system upgrade

FedScoop

The system was originally launched in 2020, in an effort to create interoperability of records between the VA and Department of Defense health care systems.

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As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

Federal News Network

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. But over the last five years, the number of task and delivery order protests ranged from a high of 417 in 2020 to a low of 344 in 2022.