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As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

Federal News Network

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. The SBPCD is the prime contractor’s proposed response to the small business participation evaluation factors. Source: OFPP memo from Nov.

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2025 PAW: Different Roles, Shared Realities – A Dialogue on Settlement and Document Production in Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

As part of the 2025 Paris Arbitration Week (PAW), Latham & Watkins, in collaboration with Columbia Law School, hosted two interactive panels examining key procedural issues in international arbitration from the perspectives of arbitrators, clients, and counsel. Arbitrators and parties should be practical, thoughtful, and flexible.

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New OCI Rule Contains Big Changes

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The proposed rule was published on January 15, 2025 with comments due on March 17, 2025. While OCI “requirements are applicable to most procurements, acquisitions below the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) and those for commercial products are exempt, as well as subcontracts for commercial products or commercial services.”

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Competing global supply chain approaches

Federal News Network

Even more legislation may be on the way, as we see provisions in the House version of the FY 2025 NDAA ( see, e.g. , Sections 173, 178, 242, 807, 1706, and 1722) and in the Senate version of the bill ( see, e.g., Sections 885, 886, 887, 888, and 889).

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Back to Basics: The Buy American Act

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Price Preference For civilian agencies , if the contractor with the lowest priced domestic end product is a large business, then the agency will add a price evaluation penalty to the offeror with the lowest priced foreign end product of 20%.

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Navy’s journey to new procurement system remains in peril

Federal News Network

MVCR functionality included basic Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contracting, such as firm-fixed price (FFP) contracts, purchase orders, task or delivery orders, and indefinite delivery vehicles under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) and using the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) for making purchases of supplies or services.

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Thoughts on the AI Safety Summit from a public sector procurement & use of AI perspective

How to Crack a Nut

There seemed to be some recognition of the need for more State intervention through regulation, for more regulatory control of standard-setting, and for more attention to be paid to testing and evaluation in the procurement context. Public procurement is an opportunity to put into practice how we will evaluate and use technology.’