FedScoop

APRIL 10, 2024

as laid out in the House-passed IT Reform Act of 2021 , which requires the agency to submit information — including cost, schedule and performance metrics — for “any major technology project” to Congress before the VA expends funds. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.,

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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

This change in policy comes in the wake of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Build America, Buy America (“BABA”) provisions, which expanded Buy America coverage broadly in federal financial assistance programs for infrastructure. That general waiver has been in place ever since.

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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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FedScoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It has faced multiple challenges from companies seeking to be included in it since the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center ( NITAAC ) first requested proposals in May 2021. The only place you can go is GAO once you meet certain dollar thresholds.”

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 26, 2023

FASCSA Regulations At its core, the FAR rule outlines a standard approach for contracting agencies and contractors to follow to comply with FASCSA statutory requirements and implementing FASCSA regulations that the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC) finalized in 2021. 26, 2021). federal contractors and suppliers).

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 23, 2024

Abu Dhabi’s Institutional Facelift Until the opening of the ICC Court of Arbitration’s fifth overseas case management office in the ADGM in 2021, the UAE’s capital hosted only one arbitral institution: the Abu Dhabi Commercial Conciliation and Arbitration Centre (“ ADCCAC ”). 34 of 2021 (“ Decree No. million in value.

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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. In its decision 4A_398/2021 of 20 May 2022, the SFSC rejected the set-aside action, finding that Venezuela had failed to show that the restructuring was abusive. decision 4A_398/2021 of 20 May 2022, para.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Only then could the Court determine if such language met the threshold for a waiver of execution immunity under English law, the law of the enforcement jurisdiction. Here, Libya inadvertently agreed to its assets being attached to satisfy an adverse arbitral award.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 22, 2024

Eco Oro Case: The Outlier’s View The question of how to interpret this type of FET clause led to a heated debate between the majority of the tribunal and Philippe Sands in his dissenting opinion in the 2021 Eco Oro v Colombia case, decided under the Canada-Colombia FTA containing a FET clause copied from the US Model BIT.

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VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

The current procurement thresholds will remain in force. As from 1 January 2021 the guidance on evaluating social value and the recommendation, at least for central government and non-department public bodies, to include a weighting of 10% for social value award criteria also comes into force.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 24, 2024

According to official statistics , between 2021 and 2022 the TSJM heard almost 40% of all annulment actions decided by Spanish Courts. This decision was followed by others issued in 2021 ( STC 17/2021 and STC 65/2021 ) and 2022 ( STC 50/2022 and STC 79/2022 ).

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2021, Rhode Island’s Department of Labor and Training collaborated with AWS on a Working Backwards process that improved transparency for unemployment insurance claims. Automate notifications – Your organization can also set up notifications, such as for when a project’s cost exceeds a designated threshold.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Interestingly, Article 11 has introduced “justifiable doubts” as the standard of disclosure which has its original basis in the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 2021. The threshold of “appearance of dependence or bias” as laid down in Blue Bank is similar to the “justifiable doubts” standard under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The TAA applies to procurements above certain dollar thresholds. In 2021, a new law called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act made these rules even stronger. .” If you’re a business owner who wants to sell to the government, you need to make sure your products come from these approved countries.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 16, 2024

of the ACICA Rules 2021 is that each party bears the burden of proving the facts relied upon to support its claim or defence. Parties should consider their ethical obligations but should not make submissions simply because they meet the minimum threshold of being ethical. The fundamental requirement under Art 35.1

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Almost 79,000 households were spending more than 30% of their income on housing-related costs, the report noted, exceeding a threshold that, according to HUD, impacts the ability to pay for other basic needs.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 22, 2023

She also highlighted the high threshold in Denmark to set aside an award based on an arbitral tribunal’s action, especially if such action is covered by the national law, institutional rules and/or procedural orders. 2016.1558/2H), which sets a high threshold for any setting aside arguments. The Supreme Court decision (U.2022.1117)

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Apparently, for fiscal years 2021 and 2022, SBA only completed six SPCRs. million for construction contracts). While the specific goal will vary with each contract (or in some cases may be on a company-wide basis), it is rare for a contracting officer to find a large business hasn’t met the given goal.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 26, 2024

The tribunal in turn issued an Interim Supplemental Award in December 2021 and a Final Supplemental Award in March 2022 (together the ‘Supplemental Awards’). Regarding the two threshold requirements, the Court found that Forbes IP satisfied them because it showed that the parties were the same in parallel proceedings (i.e.,

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

MARCH 22, 2022

In May of 2021, DOD issued its proposed rule, now adopted as final. The agency must also submit a redacted Source Selection Document to small or nontraditional offerors within the $10 to $100 million award range when the offerors request it, and must do the same for all awards above the $100 million threshold.

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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. This application was granted on 8 October 2021, and the resulting enforcement order was served on Zimbabwe on 27 May 2022. 3) [2000] 1 AC 147.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 29, 2024

In KlimaSeniorinnen , the Court confirmed that the threshold under Article 34 ECHR for individual applicants alleging climate-related harm is “especially high.” According to a 2021 study , since the 2015 Dutch court decision (upheld on appeal) in Urgenda v. In 2021, in Milieudefensie v.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Key Takeaways The two decisions confirm the Court’s restrictive stance on the revision of arbitral awards under the Swiss lex arbitri , establishing a high threshold for proving bias retrospectively based on an arbitrator’s statements after the award has been made.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In August 2021, the FASC issued a Final Rule adding a new 41 C.F.R. In other words, there are no exceptions for purchases below the micro-purchase threshold or the simplified acquisition threshold. FAR 52.204-30 is a Mandatory Flow Down for subcontractors.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Alerting and notifications: CloudWatch canaries can initiate alerts and notifications based on predefined thresholds, enabling teams to quickly respond to issues and minimize downtime. SFI has been providing application sustainment operations to FMCSA since April 2021.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

Denmark alone, for example, experienced a 12% increase in CO2 emissions from 2019 to 2021, attributed to public procurement. We’re also encouraged to see that many are collecting below-threshold procedures, for example, through a simplified eForm.

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Import and Trade Remedies

OCTOBER 3, 2023

CARM Release 2 Officially launched in May 2021, CARM is a multi-year initiative that is intended to simplify how importers account for goods, request advance rulings, adjust/correct declarations, and pay duties and taxes through the eponymous “ CARM Client Portal ”. Customs Watch the video below highlighting our customs compliance tips.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

GAO Reviews Agency Progress on Cybersecurity Executive Order MeriTalk reports that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a review on April 18 which found that, while 49 of 55 leadership and oversight requirements from the 2021 Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity have been implemented, five are still unfinished.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 5, 2024

Faced with the same threshold question in Brentwood , the Beijing Court directly applied the “seat standard” and decided that it had supervisory jurisdiction over the ICC award rendered in Beijing. The Beijing Court then proceeded to review the set-aside challenges brought by the claimant.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The keynote address also offered insights into ICC case statistics, revealing Paris as the consistent top choice throughout the years, 2008-2022, except for two instances in 2019 and 2021 when London briefly took the lead.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 11, 2024

Natura Furniture , 2021), Belgium ( SNF v. This regulation grants a safe harbor for vertical agreements under certain conditions (among others, a 30% market share threshold and the absence of “hardcore” listed restrictions). More intrusive scrutiny by national courts on public policy grounds is also apparent elsewhere in Europe.

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Import and Trade Remedies

AUGUST 30, 2023

For example, the submission proposes that the current prohibition under Article 3(1)(b) of the SCM Agreement against conditioning access to subsidies on the satisfaction of local content requirements should not apply to developing country Members, provided that the use of domestic goods does not exceed a threshold to be agreed by Members.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In 2021, the Dutch Supreme Court rejected Russia’s appeal on all grounds, except for the ground that the awards were procured by fraud on the tribunal. Parties should however expect that a high threshold would apply for the Court finding “ special circumstances “, as in this case, the existence of a novel point (i.e.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 2, 2024

Successful challenges on this basis are rare: the English Commercial Court data recorded that in 2020-2021, only one out of 26 applications succeeded – a success rate of 4%. There is a very high threshold for a Section 68 challenge.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 16, 2024

2046/2021, 28 July 2021 Stephan Adell, Adell & Merizalde, ITA Reporter for the Dominican Republic The Dominican Supreme Court of Justice (‘Supreme Court’) ruled that 1) parties cannot agree to recognition and enforcement of an award process that deviates from the one provided in the New York Convention and Law No.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Has past performance exceeded a threshold? For example, a 2021 McKinsey survey of global supply chain leaders found that 48% have visibility into Tier 1 suppliers, 21% into Tier 2 and only 2% into Tier 3. Too often, the process is distilled down to a “check the box” exercise on individual suppliers. Few knew until impacted.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In November 2021, DoD announced “CMMC 2.0,” which established an updated program structure with three key features: tiered levels of security and implementation, assessment requirements, and implementation through contracts.

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