Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

million to settle allegations that it misrepresented their commercial pricing practices and overcharged the government on VMware software products and related services purchased under the General Services Administration schedule. Carahsoft has dealt with charges of violating the False Claims Act previously.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Here are some key points from this year: (1) the key effectiveness metric, showing numbers of sustains and corrective actions at GAO, was similar to prior years at 52% for the 2024 fiscal year and (2) total bid protest numbers were down slightly from 2023 but a little above the number for 2022. Numbers are still lower than in 2021 and 2020.

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GovCon & Trade

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From 2019 to 2022, the sustain rate hovered around 13-15%. The report details the most popular reasons for sustaining protests over the prior year: 1) unreasonable technical evaluation; 2) flawed selection decision; and 3) unreasonable cost or price evaluation. Increase in the sustain rate. Higher effectiveness rate.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 12, 2024

On November 16, 2023, the General Services Administration issued a proposed rule updating the General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) Federal Supply Schedule Economic Price Adjustment (EPA) clauses. limits on the timing and number of price adjustments). Pricing context is dependent on accurate, relevant data.

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GovCon & Trade

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Procurement at Issue On October 5, 2022, the VA issued a solicitation under the commercial item procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12 and the simplified acquisition procedures of FAR part 13 for “regulated waste removal and disposal services for the South Texas Veterans Health Care System.”

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 12, 2024

On November 16, 2023, GSA issued a proposed rule updating the General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) Federal Supply Schedule Economic Price Adjustment (EPA) clauses. The rule proposes to remove “certain economic price adjustment requirements within these clauses to better align with commercial standards and practices.”

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Our review shows that the most prevalent reasons for sustaining protests during the 2024 fiscal year were: (1) unreasonable technical evaluation; (2) flawed selection decision; and (3) unreasonable cost or price evaluation,” GAO wrote in its report. “It In 2024, GAO heard 346 protests, which is down from 368 in 2023.

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

JUNE 14, 2022

The IRS just announced an increase in the standard mileage rate for the final six months of 2022. The IRS stated that the adjustments are necessary to better reflect recent increases in fuel prices. Effective beginning July 1st, the rate for business travel will increase to 62.5 cents per mile from 58.5 cents per mile.

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Federal News Network

JULY 9, 2024

The legislation includes an amendment to a portion of Section 1521 of the defense bill for fiscal 2022, which centralizes the procurement of cyber products and services across the Defense Department. The two amendments signal lawmakers’ growing concern about the Pentagons’ reliance on a single vendor for its cybersecurity products.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Topics to be covered include: Year in Review – Compliance Case Law Update Successful Partnering Between Large and Small Contractors to Win Federal Work Buy American Act and Trade Agreements Act Requirements, Compliance and Enforcement Pricing Strategies to Navigate Supply Chain Shortages Cybersecurity: How to Successfully Navigate CMMC 2.0

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ivalua

JULY 14, 2022

Redwood City, CA, July 12, 2022 – Manufacturers are working to accelerate digitization initiatives to manage supply chain disruptions in 2022 and beyond, according to an original survey commissioned by Ivalua , a leading global spend management cloud provider. The margin of error for this study is +/- 6.4% at the 95% confidence level.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, are trying to correct a misunderstanding of congressional intent when it comes to how and when agencies should consider price when reviewing proposals for contracts.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This is up from 1658 in 2022 and 1897 in 2021. Compared to 2022, total protests are up about 22%. And unlike last year, all agencies followed GAO’s recommendations in connection with bid protests. GAO Protest Numbers 2025 cases including 1,957 protests. 608 – Number of cases decided on the merits, rather than through dismissal.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JANUARY 22, 2025

The complainant alleges that goods assembled/completed in Vietnam are “like goods” that otherwise meet the product definition in the February 2022 CITT finding initiating measures against chassis from China.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

124.506 , if an 8(a) contract price would exceed a certain threshold ($7 million for manufacturing contracts, $4.5 The first part in 2022 went through without issue. The problem was that now, the 2022 contract to Peregrine was about to expire with no successor to take on the data management services. Under 13 C.F.R.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

GAO’s statistics from Fiscal Year 2022 showed a relatively steady sustain rate percentage hovering between 13% and 15% of the decisions on the merits. 11] GAO also reinforced the requirements to document the evaluation of offerors’ proposed prices [12] and ensure that all elements of the price are included and are the correct figures. [13]

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Federal News Network

APRIL 19, 2024

These regulations and associated guidance address a host of contracting officer responsibilities, including but not limited to, proposal evaluation, negotiations, price and/or cost analysis, data rights, and foreign acquisition ( e.g. , TAA). For this reason, procurement policy flow-downs cannot be one-sided. It does not.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Feast American Diners and Dawood Beshay are paying a steep price for falsely certifying their eligibility for these funds.” The settlement stems from a qui tam whistleblower suit filed in December 2022. Attorney Carla B. The RRF was established in March 2021 with the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act as part of the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

In May 2022, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second-largest school district in the US, encountered a problem. The COVID-tracking and health data system built for the district during the COVID-19 pandemic had become clunky, difficult to customize, and expensive to maintain.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The JV got its first award on September 15, 2018, and submitted its initial offer, including price, for the procurement at issue, more than two years later on June 7, 2022. Applying the November 2020 Two-Year Rule to the JV is proper because the JV submitted its offer after November 2020–in 2022.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, as HolonIQ reports in its 2024 Global Education Outlook , funding sources slowed across the board in 2023, dropping 59% from 2022 levels. The AWS framework helps EdTechs improve cost efficiency, assess functionality expansion, and grow market share, by aligning pricing with solution value to students and institutions.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, due to an increased focus on value with tighter margins, price disputes in LNG projects are becoming more likely and frequent. LNG Price Reviews in Asia Versus Australia Historically, LNG price reviews in Asia were compromised and settled.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

GSA said this requirement was to ensure price reasonableness of the services any one company is offering. The ASCEND program first burst onto the scene back in April 2022 and GSA released the first version of draft PWS in May 2022. Comments on the draft PWS and details about pools 2 and 3 are due by Feb.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Meanwhile, Germany used buyers lists with specified maximum prices as another effective tool. Progress has been very slow, as the Public Accounts Committee noted in 2022 with little progress since then. Here is Colombia setting up an open framework to better connect buyers and sellers in an orderly and transparent manner.

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Federal Construction Contracting

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Notable about this case is the contractor’s invocation of a July 2, 2020 Department of Defense (DoD) memorandum concerning the financial consequences on contractors with firm-fixed-price contracts lacking an economic price adjustment clause during “historic and unprecedented challenges” in the wake of the pandemic’s onset.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The court eventually ruled in DoD and HomeSafe’s favor, but the final legal hurdles weren’t cleared until December 2022. Meanwhile, at least some moving companies who currently do business with DoD have expressed concerns about the rates they’ll receive from HomeSafe under the new contract structure.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

” She added, “We see lower prices and more innovation, and honestly, space should be no exception. For example, back in 2022, the agency rescinded a nearly $1 billion subsidy focused on rural broadband. We see lower prices and more innovation, and honestly, space should be no exception.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On August 5, 2024, the General Services Administration (GSA) took a step forward by publishing a final rule to “standardize and simplify the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) clauses for economic price adjustments.” The GSAR, as currently written, limits when, how often, and by what percentages prices can be adjusted.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

25 of 2022 on Amendment of Minister of Trade Regulation No. 25/2022 “). 25/2022, the government unofficially has prepared a positive list of goods that are subject to the minimum price requirement based on Minister of Trade Regulation No. 20 of 2021 on Policy and Arrangements of Import (“ MOT Regulation No.25/2022

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This was a 22% increase compared to FY 2022. The GAO sustain rate increased substantially from 13 percent in FY 2022 to 31 percent in FY 2023. GAO’s two year average sustain rate in FY 2022-2023 was 22 percent. This compares with a two year average sustain rate of 9.71 This compares with a two year average sustain rate of 9.71

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, contractors face a difficult road to recover costs in a firm-fixed-price contracts. As an example, the Department of Defense issued a guidance on Inflation and Economic Price Adjustments, providing some relief for certain contractors performing on firm-fixed-price contracts. 17, 2022). [2]

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, contractors face a difficult road to recover costs in a firm-fixed-price contracts. As an example, the Department of Defense issued a guidance on Inflation and Economic Price Adjustments, providing some relief for certain contractors performing on firm-fixed-price contracts. 17, 2022). [2]

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 5, 2024

Potential Changes to FSS EPA Clauses As you know, one of the Coalition’s priorities in 2022 and 2023 was to increase flexibility in the application of Economic Price Adjustments (EPAs) in the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program during a time of historic inflation.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 11, 2024

In 2022, the arbitral tribunal ruled that GBO’s termination was unjustified and ordered compensation to CAI. In 2022, judicial scrutiny has been greatly heightened by Belokon v. This has been the case in Germany ( KZB 75/21 , 2022), Sweden ( GE v. Onix or Indagro ) to be set aside. Natura Furniture , 2021), Belgium ( SNF v.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

You can't be asking for the American taxpayer to make even greater public investments while you continue, in some cases, to goose your stock prices through stock buybacks, deferring promised capital investments," Del Toro said. The fiscal 2022 defense bill required the Pentagon to submit a report laying out the details of implementation.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 18, 2024

MaryKathryn Robinson, the director for contract policy in the Office of Defense Pricing and Contracting, said the growth of OTAs over the last seven years truly precipitated the new how-to guide. MaryKathryn Robinson is the director for contract policy in the Office of Defense Pricing and Contracting. “We

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The Contractor's Perspective

JANUARY 12, 2023

23, 2022) provides new authority for some defense contractors and subcontractors to obtain price increases that address the impacts of inflation. The new authority is welcome relief for contractors and subcontractors holding fixed-price defense contracts, which typically do not allow a price increase due solely to inflation.

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