Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 23, 2024

The start of 2024 was no exception to this phenomenon. Set to start operations on 1 February 2024, arbitrateAD is the latest addition to the region’s expanding institutional landscape. 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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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.” However, implementation of the final rule will be heavily influenced by opaque trainings and internal policy memos.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 22, 2024

But, at the same time, the majority also referred to the NAFTA-style high threshold of gravity required to find a breach (referring to actions “unacceptable from an international law perspective,” paras. 128) and that the conduct of the Respondent was arbitrary, using a high threshold (paras.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 30, 2024

Amid concerns over the influence tech companies wield, States are starting to insulate their economies from perceived foreign risks of influence, while seeking to champion home-grown tech juggernauts. These changes have profound political, economic, and societal implications.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 31, 2022

Thirty-one of these are Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, and they are currently working to ensure that the voluntary political agreement translates into international conventions and domestic legislation so that the package can take effect in 2024 as announced recently by OECD in Davos.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 , signed into law on December 22, 2023, makes numerous changes to acquisition policy. The FY 2024 NDAA also includes the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act, the American Security Drone Act, and the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2024.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

To comprehensively assess the efficacy of escape clauses, we have developed the Escape Clause Clarity Index (ECCI), which will be part of the upcoming study “Navigating Fiscal Flexibility: Assessing the Quality of Escape Clauses in Rule-Based Fiscal Frameworks” by Ulloa-Suarez, Valencia, and Guerra (2024).

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 12, 2024

On 8 November 2024, the Roma Tre-UNIDROIT Centre for Transnational Commercial Law and International Arbitration held its first Annual Conference , titled The Many Shades of Climate Change: Through the Lenses of Dispute Settlement, at the Bank of Italys Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Convention Centre, Rome.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

will eventually ease monetary conditions to influence a lowering of interest rates. [15] 22] Plainly, approximately (22) months after October 2022 is on or about August to September 2024. could enter a recession by the late summer to early fall of 2024. treasuries. [13] 13] , [14] Think of it this way.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Most DoD assessments were found to take place above a threshold of $111.4 GAO found that DoD policy does not provide clear direction about which M&A DoD should prioritize for assessment other than those above the HSR threshold. The hearing covered a wide range of topics, including: (i) how the U.S.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

de, [link] On 17 October 2024, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its preliminary ruling in NFŠ (C-28/23, EU:C:2024:893 ). By Arne Müseler / www.arne-mueseler.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 The case was very interesting in three respects. It is for the referring court to determine whether those circumstances are present in this case.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 18, 2024

Influence on Market Strategies: Sharing demand data with industry partners has empowered them to tailor their strategies more effectively to Federal market demands, focusing efforts on high-demand items. GSA is also expanding TDR as an option to additional SINs in August 2024. See the article above for more details. Government (e.g.,

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

OMB Aims to Increase Small Disadvantaged Business Spending in FY24 On October 25, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo informing agencies of Federal goals to award 13 percent of Federal procurement dollars to small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) in fiscal year (FY) 2024.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

extensions and waivers In relation to covered safety-impacting or rights-impacting AI (as above), Section 5(a)(i) establishes the important principle that US Federal Government agencies have until 1 August 2024 to implement the minimum practices in Section 5(c), ‘or else stop using any AI that is not compliant with the minimum practices’.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 20, 2025

2024 appeared to be one of the busiest years for investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) reform, with significant advances in the United Nations Commission on Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III discussions and the adoption of the modernized Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). Gn nvars post, Meaningful Consensus or Delaying Disagreements?

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 9, 2025

The Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA) has introduced updated rules (the 2024 Rules), which were adopted by the Board of Directors on 15 September 2024, effective 1 January 2025. Article 10 of the 2024 Rules introduces a new mechanism for consolidating arbitrations.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

CBP has created a privacy threshold analysis an internal document used to analyze potential privacy risks associated with a new technology and whether a privacy impact assessment is necessary for Starlink internet, a step from agency officials that indicates that the SpaceX service is under serious consideration.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 18, 2025

Key topics included how disputes are viewed within business and legal departments, cultural and structural factors influencing the adoption of arbitration, effective use of arbitration as a tool to facilitate settlement, and the use of third-party funding to mitigate the risk of arbitration. For example, Mr.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The silence and sparsity of costs coverage in arbitral laws and institutional rules affords wide discretion that result in reliance on customary arbitral norms and practices influenced by national legal cultures and training. The report observes that only two of the 23 applications for security for costs yielded success.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

50] Basically, the FOMC announces a federal funds rate range, and then the Federal Reserve System conducts open market operations (“OMOs”) to try to influence rates to within the established range. 69] Yet, CBO based that projection on, from 2024 to 2033, T-bill rates averaging from 2.2 trillion. [60] 60] The U.S.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 19, 2024

White House Publishes 2024 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory Fedscoop reports that on December 18, the White House released the 2024 Federal Agency Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Case Inventory. In 2024, 27 Federal agencies reported 1,757 public AI uses, which is more than double the number of cases in 2023.

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FedScoop

MARCH 20, 2025

A privacy threshold analysis released by CBP this month details aspects of the SIC program. The original privacy threshold analysis was published on a CBP site after FedScoop reported on its existence and subsequently asked for the document to be made public. Its not clear where that work currently stands.

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