SmallGovCon

JUNE 19, 2024

The Buy American Act “[r]estricts the purchase of supplies, that are not domestic end products, for use within the United States” unless an exception applies. If the contractor with the lowest priced domestic end product is a small business, the penalty is 30%. However, this law does not actually prohibit the acquisition of non-U.S.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Framework Public Bodies will be notified in advance of the effective date of any new pricing and a new Lyreco catalogue will be uploaded in due course. The relet action is well underway and the new arrangement will form part of Scotland Excel’s cluster call-off from the CCS Framework. Early development work on the re-let has commenced.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 19, 2024

Army on track to meet its recruitment goals - Federal News Network) Are prices under the multiple-award schedule contracts fair and reasonable? The General Services Administration is asking industry 15 questions about how to better align schedule pricing with commercial practices. Responses to the RFI are due by May 8. (

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Join us at the Fall Training Conference, Nov 20 – 21 The 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. Requests for transparent pricing across the AI lifecycle.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

20-21 The 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. The Army has set aside $26 million for NCODE for both fiscal years 2025 and 2026. is less than one month away!

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 12, 2024

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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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Collaborative Framework for the provision of Postal Services A Category A (National) dual-lot, dual-supplier framework for the provision of Postal Services commenced on 1 July 2021 for a maximum period of 4 years to 30 June 2025. Further information on this framework can be found here. Work on a re-let is due to commence imminently.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

30, 2026, according to a 2020 memo from Kim Herring, the then-acting principal director of the Office of Defense Contract and Pricing. more in funding for 2025 Between September and July, PEO-MLB has made an additional 20 software updates and currently supports 293 users and has executed more than 100 contract actions worth more than $1.5

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The key aim of our own supported businesses Dynamic Purchase System is to provide Scottish public sector and third sector bodies with a clear path to purchase goods and services from supported businesses. We recently awarded a new gas framework to begin when the current framework expires in March 2025.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Collaborative Framework for the provision of Postal Services A Category A (National) dual-lot, dual-supplier framework for the provision of Postal Services commenced on 1 July 2021 for a maximum period of 4 years to 30 June 2025. Further information on this framework can be found here. Work on a re-let is due to commence imminently.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Announcing the Governmentwide Agenda for the Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? The Coalition is thrilled to unveil the agenda for the governmentwide day of our 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! Pricing details included in the prospectus. Click here to register.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

Sustainability needs to be seen as a wider issue, not just green purchasing and the environment, but also supporting women businesses and local economic development. In Rwanda, it helped that e-GP was included in a top policy priority seeking to make all government business electronic by 2025.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This includes the expansion to additional providers for the General Services Administration’s Commercial Platforms Initiative in 2023, the OASIS+ program coming online in 2024 and a significant scope increase for the already rapidly growing NASA SEWP program in 2025.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Fall Training Conference: “ 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? The theme of this year’s two-day conference will be “ 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ” and will explore the future of the Federal procurement system after the Presidential election.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Without competitive bidding, prices go up, and the quality of goods and services languishes. Technological solutions such as AI-driven tender analysis can streamline the evaluation process, helping to assess qualitative elements alongside pricing. Robust competition in public procurement can bring these promising outcomes.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 29, 2024

Because of that, contractors should prepare for the possibility that new DOD contracts will require a CMMC assessment in the first half of 2025. The only exceptions are for contracts solely for the purchase of Commercial Off-the-Shelf items or contracts under the $10,000 micro-purchase threshold. False Claims.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JULY 5, 2024

The programs, set to end by March 25, 2025, provide point-of-sale incentives for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles. These export restrictions were in place for a number of years and were estimated to have cost the affected Canadian industries billions of dollars in lost opportunities and depressed prices.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement is pleased to announce that multiple sponsorship packages are available for the 2024 Fall Training Conference – 2025 Market Outlook: What’s Next? Pricing details included in the prospectus. Contractors in the DOD space should not delay in preparing for the rolling out of CMMC in 2025.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Section 811 requires development and implementation of a streamlined requirements development process, to improve alignment with modern technologies and reduce time to deliver capabilities, by October 1, 2025. The prize competition must be established within 270 days of enactment, and expires on December 31, 2025.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

As of 2025, the system could establish links with additional external data sources ’ (at 2). prices) ’ (at 7, fn 17). Given the undoubted value of harnessing procurement data, I sense that Member States will progress domestically, but primarily in specific settings such as that of their central purchasing bodies (see here ).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Announcing the Healthcare Agenda for the Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? The Coalition for Government Procurement is excited to share the draft agenda for the healthcare-focused day of our 2024 Fall Training Conference, The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! James Peake , M.D.,

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 30, 2024

That executive order established a government-wide goal of awarding at least 15 percent of federal contract spending to small disadvantaged businesses in FY 2025. One of those is Executive Order 14091 , Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

Healthcare Spotlight: HHS Announces Medicare Part D Negotiated Prices This week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final drug prices negotiated through its Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program established under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA).

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Procurement Notes

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Government cannot TFC a contract in bad faith, or as an abuse of discretionsuch as to get a better price, or where the Government formed the contract with no real intention of seeing it through. [59] instead of acquiring (by purchase, lease, or barter) property or services for the direct benefit or use of the United States Government[.]

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 18, 2024

The blog post covers the following benefits of TDR that have resulted from the current pilot: Support for Small Businesses: GSA used transactional data to analyze which high-demand items customers were purchasing and found that certain items were only being provided by large business resellers. See the article above for more details.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 8, 2024

CISA Releases Software Security Guide Federal News Network reports that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a new guide on August 1 for Federal acquisition personnel that outlines how agencies can “better evaluate the security of the software they purchase.” Virtual attendance will also be available.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

Department of Labor (“DoL”), Bureau of Labor Statistics (“BLS”) Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (“CPI-U”). There are four major categories of purchases covered in the CPI-U: food, energy, commodities like cars and clothes, and services like rent and healthcare.” [1] CPI First, consider the U.S. 4] Below shows how the 6.0%

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Final awards would then be issued in January 2025. Polaris, the replacement for the Alliant 2 Small Business contract, features pools focused around different small business categories and will be used by agencies to purchase IT services and solutions. GSA and DoD anticipate purchasing 2.7

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The President is set to release his 2025 budget request on March 11, which usually kicks off appropriations negotiations for the next fiscal year. Funding under the CR for the remaining six agencies has been extended through March 22. for all SUP-free packaging. To view the comments, click here.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Small Business Administration to Host 11th Annual National Veterans Small Business Week Nov. 4, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog. Small Business Administration to Host 11th Annual National Veterans Small Business Week Nov. 4, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 25, 2023

November 15 Jack Tekus , Management Analyst, MAS PMO, GSA Derek Tribble , Senior Procurement Analyst, GSA GSA Pricing Tools: GSA’s Catalog Management team will be present to discuss various agency solutions and tools. Peters noted that over half of AI tools used by the federal government are purchased from commercial vendors and that the U.S.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2025

Last weeks FAR & Beyond identified procurement reform as one of five procurement themes that will shape the federal acquisition marketplace in 2025 and beyond. The interim final rule, which became effective on January 13, 2025, builds on previous regulations that protect U.S. Comments on the proposed rule are due by March 17, 2025.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 21, 2025

Eliminate the preference for multiple award Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) in FAR 8.4. The GPEL recommendations have been added to the Coalitions reform agenda for 2025. Given the appetite for procurement reform, lets look at a procurement reform menu. There is no such statutory requirement. We are gratified by the response.

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FedScoop

MARCH 6, 2025

We want to have economies of scale with our purchasing power and our infrastructure engineering investment across the federal government, Shedd said. He stated that in fiscal 2024, the program was short approximately $18 million and in fiscal 2025, 18F lost $5 million due to a shortfall in recoverable dollars from partner agencies.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For example, if the government decides to conduct a procurement in early 2025, the general plan for the project must have been announced in at least the last quarter of 2024. Identify Similar Procurements The third step is to search for similar purchases through opentender.net (or by accessing the official e-procurement platform directly).

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

MARCH 24, 2025

The additional costs may also be passed down the supply chain, leading to higher prices for end consumers. This not only affects their product pricing strategy but also impacts their competitiveness in both domestic and international markets.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 26, 2024

Under FAR Part 19 and 13 CFR, the “rule of two” requires that an acquisition shall be set aside for small business concerns whenever there is reasonable expectation that offers will be obtained from at least two responsible small business concerns and award will be made at fair market prices.

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