LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, the Interim Final Rule includes the following major actions: Adjusting the economic disadvantage thresholds applicable to the 8(a) Business Development and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) programs, and the dollar limit for small business size standards for certain industries. [1] 17, 2022). [2]

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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. Overstock Government decided not to bid on the next generation platform, sources say.

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

IDB staff calculations based on The Conference Board’s Total Economy Database (TED). (*) Data for 2022 is estimated and for 2023 is projected. 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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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The UNCITRAL Draft Codes of Conduct and Commentary (2022) recommended abolition of double hatting while introducing an extensive disclosure regime. 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).

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VWV

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Universities have successfully persuaded the Cabinet Office to introduce a minimum contract value threshold of £2 million in relation to some of the transparency requirements to reduce the administrative burden on universities, particularly regarding the publication of information. Get in Touch First name (*) Please enter your first name.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is fair to say I did get some pushback for my view and how that implied an unreasonably high threshold of competence and behaviour by decision makers in the run up to a serious medical emergency. In early 2022 1.5b of unused PPE items had expired and by 2023 3bn items of PPE had been disposed of.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 17, 2024

The High Court challenge emanated from the Award that was issued in favour of SNGPL in August 2022, by Chantal-Aimée Doerries, KC (the ‘ Tribunal ’), against QATPL, a public sector company. In QATPL v SNGPL , the High Court underscored the extreme nature of irregularity that would meet the threshold in Section 68.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 11, 2024

9 Senate-Passed 2024 NDAA set to Raise DoD Set-Aside Sole-Source Contract Threshold Limits. A post from 2022 that is becoming very popular. 6 FAR Final Rule: Increased Micro-Purchase and Simplified Acquisition Thresholds. Unfortunately, this increase did not make it into the final text of the NDAA.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Passing the $2 billion threshold in whistleblower awards is a major milestone for the Dodd-Frank whistleblower programs and a testament to how they have revolutionized the enforcement of white-collar crime,” said whistleblower attorney Stephen M. “The ” The SEC Whistleblower Program has awarded more than $1.8

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Federal News Network

MARCH 1, 2024

The General Services Administration’s top IT official says GSA did not violate the law when it bought more than 100 China-made video conferencing cameras in 2022 as part of a pilot project. The IG’s report centers on two separate transactions occurring in March and October of 2022, respectively. But Erickson Jr.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 18, 2024

While the threshold for reporting under CISA’s rule is higher than, for example, under the Department of Defense’s (“DoD’s”) cyber incident reporting rule (which requires reporting of incidents involving activities that “may have” occurred), this is a welcome acknowledgement of the practicalities of cyber incident detection and response.

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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.” B-418123.4,

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As per SIAC’s annual report of 2022 , SIAC has received a total of 802 requests for Expedited Procedure since 2010. In 2022 alone, SIAC received 87 requests for Expedited Procedure, of which 48 were accepted. Expedited Procedure Since Expedited Procedure was introduced in 2010, it has become increasingly popular. Draft Rule 14.1(b)

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 23, 2024

The 2023 SCCA Arbitration Rules (commented on in a previous blog post ) increased the threshold amount in dispute for expedited proceedings to approximately USD 1.07 million – a response to the growing criticism directed at DIAC’s significantly lower threshold of around USD 270,000. million in value.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There were 368 in fiscal 2023, compared to 344 in fiscal 2022. The only place you can go is GAO once you meet certain dollar thresholds.” Patton also pointed to a year-over-year increase in the number of bid protests that were related to task and delivery order protests, which GAO has jurisdiction over.

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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. e-commerce imports in fiscal year 2022. It would maintain the $800 cap but apply lower thresholds with countries on the basis of reciprocity. Blumenauer.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 17, 2024

Bulk Trident Shipping Ltd [2022] SGHC 210 (“ Fastfreight ”) at [61]. 2022) 2022/INSC/710 (“ Vidarbha Industries ”) at [78]. Is it necessary or is there any benefit to maintaining a different threshold for a disputed debt(s) covered by an arbitration agreement in contrast to a disputed debt that is not, as Singapore does?

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, GAO noted that “[i]n contrast, according to government-wide data released by the Small Business Administration (SBA), many contractors reported not meeting their subcontracting goals in fiscal year 2022.” of completed contracts for 2022 for SDVOSBs! Apparently, for fiscal years 2021 and 2022, SBA only completed six SPCRs.

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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. 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.

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NIH NITAAC

MAY 5, 2022

NITAAC recently announced it obtained 801 certification for fiscal year 2022. But what exactly is 801 certification and why is it so important? To answer that question, let’s start by looking at the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA is the name for a series of federal laws that determine the annual budget of the U.S.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For Mentor-Protégé Agreements entered into after December 23, 2022, the Mentor actually has deadlines to submit data on those items. Additionally, Mentors are able to either receive some small business contracting credit or reimbursement of costs through the DoD Mentor-Protégé Program.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 30, 2024

Countries are enacting new national security laws to limit foreign influence, including China’s 2017 National Security Law; the US’s 2022 National Security Strategy; and the EU’s 2023 Economic Security Strategy. These changes have profound political, economic, and societal implications. As observed by Henry A.

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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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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Should this extension go through, it would push the expiration date of CIO-SP3 more than two years past the original sunset date of May 2022. The number of points needed to meet the threshold to win a spot on the contract went down. The six protests bring the total number of protests above 350 in two plus years.

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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. This 2022 Supreme Court judgment followed the leading Supreme Court judgment from 2016 (U.2016.1558/2H),

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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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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 8, 2024

Total Venture Capital Investment in Artificial Intelligence from 2012 to 2022 in LAC5 (USD billions) Source: Chart elaborated by the authors using data from OECD AI Policy Observatory. link] AI Can Improve Economic Decision-making AI has the potential to increase Latin America’s GDP by over 5.4% ($0.5 trillion) by 2030 [2].

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 28, 2024

Authored by Ryan Roberts and Daniel Alvarado, Sheppard Mullin In January 2022, we warned software companies selling indirectly against attempting to enforce the terms of their End User License Agreement (“EULA”) directly against the Federal Government based on the decision of the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (“CBCA”) in Avue Technologies Corp.

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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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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

14063) issued on February 9, 2022. Although the PLA mandate only applies to large-scale construction projects with the contract value of $35 million and more, under the proposed rule, agencies have the option to include the PLA requirement for construction projects that are under the $35 million threshold.

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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. We discuss notable developments and our takeaways below.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

As a preliminary threshold issue, the Proposal and Declaration are based on an assumption (set out in the Explanatory Memorandum, pp 1 and 2) that neither Russia nor Belarus is a Contracting Party to the ECT ( i.e. , that both are third States within the meaning of Article 17). Is a denial of benefits a suspension?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

While the threshold for reporting under CISA’s rule is higher than, for example, under the Department of Defense’s (“DoD’s”) cyber incident reporting rule (which requires reporting of incidents involving activities that “may have” occurred), this is a welcome acknowledgement of the practicalities of cyber incident detection and response.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2022, the Office of Personnel Management issued Skill-Based Hiring Guidance implementing the EO for agencies to further advance innovation in Federal hiring. These plans mark another stage in the implementation of DoD’s Zero Trust Strategy , released in 2022.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

We’re also encouraged to see that many are collecting below-threshold procedures, for example, through a simplified eForm. The member states we’ve heard from are also collecting data on additional non-mandatory fields to help them better track these policy goals. Lastly, individual champions play a massive role in open contracting progress.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MAY 21, 2024

Another potential change is an increase to the tariff-rate quota threshold. Trade Representative (“USTR”), which began in 2022. The Biden Administration noted that it will monitor the current quota to determine whether it should be increased from 5 gigawatts to 7.5

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