Federal News Network

JULY 12, 2024

Depending on the item and the value of the acquisition, the TAA or other specific free trade agreements might apply because the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has waived the BAA for many supply acquisitions above specific thresholds, ranging from 50,000 to 174,000.

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since 2020 public debt levels rose by 15 percentage points (pp) of the region’s gross domestic product, to 71 percent. This means that there is a tipping point, or threshold, at which higher debt levels become detrimental to growth. For LAC countries, this threshold is at approximately 53 percent of GDP.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This goes back to bid protests dating around 2020. Dan Ramish: So if it goes into effect, the rule would require that agencies, when they’re placing an order under an existing IDIQ contract, it would be mandatory for the contracting officer to set aside an award of an order that’s over the micro-purchase threshold.

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Telles.eu

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, the Communication recognises that 80% of contracts are below-thresholds and as such no real procurement data is captured about them beyond the approach taken by individual member States in using TED for the notices or doing so via national portals. Wouldn't it be great if all that data was captured in a single place?

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

GSA created the CPI program under a proof-of-concept moniker with awards to Amazon, Fischer and Overstock Government in 2020 under direction from Congress with a goal of capturing data on and managing products under the micro purchase threshold of $10,000.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Furthermore, such disclosure obligations have already been satisfactorily addressed by the new ICSID Arbitration Rules 2022 following the annulment decision in Eiser v Spain (2020). Interestingly, Article 11 has introduced “justifiable doubts” as the standard of disclosure which has its original basis in the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 2021.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. in 2020 to 96% and single-bid tenders decreased across all methods – from 62.5% in 2020 to 59.7% Open data has been available in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) since 2020.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 11, 2024

9 Senate-Passed 2024 NDAA set to Raise DoD Set-Aside Sole-Source Contract Threshold Limits. 6 FAR Final Rule: Increased Micro-Purchase and Simplified Acquisition Thresholds. The FAR was updated to increase the micro-purchase threshold and the simplified acquisition threshold, effective August 31, 2020.

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Contractors should therefore consider taking steps to develop processes to comply with the rule as soon as possible. [1] The September 9, 2020 interim rule covered in this alert was finalized by the FASC on August 26, 2021.

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Import and Trade Remedies

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

114-125 ) to increase the de minimis threshold for imports into the United States from $200 to $800, far exceeding similar thresholds in other countries globally. By value, from 2018 to 2020, de minimis imports more than doubled from $29 billion to $67 billion. e-commerce imports in fiscal year 2022. Blumenauer.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 12, 2024

Depending on the item and the value of the acquisition, the TAA and/or other specific free trade agreements might apply because the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has waived the BAA for many supply acquisitions above specific thresholds, ranging from 50k to 174k.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Launched in 2020, StateRAMP was designed by its board of directors to support state entities that want to leverage cloud-based services in a secure way. In this blog post, learn a quick recap on what StateRAMP is and how it differs from the similar Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP ). What is StateRAMP?

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. It also relates to above and below threshold data, as only above threshold data is subjected to mandatory eForms compliance.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

This criticism, even if it were true, would not reach the high threshold for a violation of public policy, in any event (para. decision 4A_306/2019 of 25 March 2020, para. This includes preliminary questions of substance affecting the decision on jurisdiction (cf. decision 4A_398/2021 of 20 May 2022, para.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 17, 2024

The High Court relied and emphasized on the decisions of the Court of Appeal in Metalform Asia Pte Ltd v Holland Leedon Pte Ltd [2007] 2 SLR(R) 268, AnAn Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd v VTB Bank [2020] 1 SLR 1158 and BWG v. BWF [2020] 1 SLR 1296. The legal position as held by the Court of Appeal in Salford Estates (No. 2) Limited v.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It also lowered the approval threshold for EPA increase requests and allowed for the removal and re-addition of contract items at higher, renegotiated prices. GSA published its EPA proposed rule, GSAR Case 2020-G510, Federal Supply Schedule Economic Price Adjustment , on November 16, 2023.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 24, 2024

Between 2020 and 2022, the Spanish Constitutional Court (“SCC”) rendered several decisions on the issue of public policy that have reversed this annulment trend adopted by the TSJM. On 15 June 2020, the SCC issued the first of its decisions ( STC 46/2020 ) concerning the issue. Much has changed since then, however.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Vedanta , (2020) 10 SCC 1, upheld the principle of minimal judicial intervention to a foreign award, where interference could only be based on the exhaustive grounds mentioned under Section 48 of the Arbitration Act. The Indian Supreme Court (“ Supreme Court ”) in Government of India v. Prysmian Cavi E.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 5, 2024

Guangdong Fa’anlong (2020) (“ Brentwood ”), where the court suggested that an ICC award seated in China should be enforced as a Chinese award, implying perhaps that Chinese courts would be more ready to accept supervisory jurisdiction over such awards going forward. 2024: SPC’s promotion of Daesung Industrial Gases Co.,

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 23, 2024

In December 2020, the Claimants commenced ICSID arbitration against Canada, alleging that these matters “wip[ed] out KS&T’s carbon allowances trading business” in Ontario in breach of investment protections under NAFTA.

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Procurement Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) the EEO-1 snapshot demographic data (Component 1) report for both 2019 and 2020 is currently August 23, 2021. [1] Department of Labor (“DoL”) the VETS-4212 protected veteran employment report for 2020-2021 is September 30, 2021. [3] 1] , [2 ] The report(s) can be filed here.

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Eligibility for EDWOSB certification requires a business to be 51% unconditionally owned by economically disadvantaged women, satisfying strict financial thresholds and NAICS code criteria related to underrepresented industries. Changes implemented in 2020 aimed to improve customer experience and strengthen oversight.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A Geneva-seated tribunal chaired by Laurent Aynès and including co-arbitrator Charles Poncet issued an interim award in 2020, holding that Crescent had validly terminated the supply contract (the “Interim Award”). Still in 2020, the Court declared an application to set aside the Interim Award inadmissible.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2020, the Modernizing and Reforming the Assessment and Hiring of Federal Job Candidates Executive Order (EO) was signed which urged Federal agencies to use skill-based assessments in hiring decisions. On March 6, 2024, the Federal Circuit vacated the CBCA decision on the threshold jurisdictional issue.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This trend is rooted in legislative amendments to the Russian Arbitrazh (Commercial) Procedure Code (“APC”) enacted in 2020, which empower Russian entities subject to sanctions to seek adjudication from Russian Arbitrazh Courts in certain circumstances, even if the dispute falls within the scope of an arbitration agreement.

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The Softly Spark

AUGUST 3, 2023

Amazon currently recognizes 52 of the over 450 certifications available–up from 18 when it started in 2020. Products must be registered with the Amazon Brand Registry program, and have “best in class unit efficiency” according to Amazon’s unit efficiency thresholds and as calculated by Amazon’s unit efficiency tool.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Additionally, while applications relating to the propriety of proceedings at the threshold may seem to involve the court’s powers, they do not, in certain contexts, contradict a jurisdictional challenge. Heller (2020) SCC 16 (“ Uber ”). For example, a striking-out application, as demonstrated in Maniach Pte Ltd v.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The panel observed that the International Bar Association Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration 2020 (“IBA Rules”) limit requests to produce documents to those ‘relevant to the case and material to its outcome’ (IBA Rules, Art 3(3)(b)). Parties should not lose sight of this essential function.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

30, 2026, according to a 2020 memo from Kim Herring, the then-acting principal director of the Office of Defense Contract and Pricing. The Navy — along with the Army, the Air Force and the Fourth Estate agencies — is trying move off of the Standard Procurement System, developed in the 1990s.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 12, 2024

Vesel addressed the issue of illegally-obtained evidence, referring to the 2020 update to the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence that allows arbitral tribunals to exclude such evidence. Two recent cases on state immunity from the Swedish Supreme Court both uphold a high threshold in respect of enforcement immunity ( Sedelmayer v.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 8, 2024

These models, powered by machine learning, exceled in predicting complex economic trends, such as the significant GDP declines two IDB member countries faced in 2020: El Salvador and Belize. The model foresaw a 19.4% GDP drop for El Salvador, closely matching the actual 19.7% drop, and a 23.0% fall for Belize, compared to the reported 23.9%

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. For example, when we take a whole year of contracts after a transparency reform taking place in May, our estimation may be biased if a procurement regulatory reform happened 5 months later, such as a new reporting threshold introduced. Fazekas, M. & & Tóth, B.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 30, 2024

Uber : in February 2020, Uber submitted a notice of dispute to Colombia pursuant to the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, following an effective ban of the Uber app. Huawei also notified the UK of a dispute under the China-UK BIT following a similar ban. The dispute notice has not been withdrawn, and the status of the dispute is unknown.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 29, 2024

Article 54 was said by Spain not to come close to meeting that threshold, because it was not framed as a waiver or submission by Spain to the jurisdiction of any domestic court bar its own. 3) [2000] 1 AC 147. 593 was not satisfied).

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

DECEMBER 27, 2023

and corresponding DFARS Clause 252.204-7021 under an Interim Rule in September 2020. Concurrently, the Interim Rule released two clauses aimed at assessing contractor implementation of cybersecurity requirements, DFARS 252.204-7019 and DFARS 252.204-2020.

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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. Back in 2018, the EU, the United States of America (“ U.S.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Balfaqeeh then presented an in-depth analysis of the threshold for interim reliefs, particularly under the UAE Arbitration Law. Another key point made by Farah was the possibility of the arbitral tribunal making interim reliefs contingent upon the provision of adequate security by the requesting party.

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