Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

appropriately influenced economies of scale. BPA Fundamental Purpose and Benefit: “Simplified method of filling anticipated repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing ‘charge accounts’ with qualified sources of supply.” IDVs are not established as “charge accounts.” Would the IDV be a more appropriate arrangement?

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

appropriately influenced economies of scale. BPA Fundamental Purpose and Benefit: “Simplified method of filling anticipated repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing ‘charge accounts’ with qualified sources of supply.” IDVs are not established as “charge accounts.” Would the IDV be a more appropriate arrangement?

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Over the past two decades, a growing number of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries began adopting fiscal rules to limit overspending influenced by election cycles, public pressure, and other political economy factors, helping the region strengthen its fiscal solvency and sustainability.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and submitted. Furthermore, the possible use of AI in appellate stages, definitely leads to more questions than answers. Another way to look at it is as follows: An appeal is usually the least direct outcome.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 15, 2024

And so is their interplay (for a more detailed account of the relevant questions, see Kehl & Wuschka, ZEuS 2024 , 59 (67 et seq.)). In line with the definition in Article 1(2) of the ECT, states in their one-year “withdrawal period” under Article 47(2) of the ECT also count as contracting parties for these purposes.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

This was definitely not by chance. Plaintiffs from less developed jurisdictions have chosen to seek redress in European courts mostly due to their independence and less likelihood of local influence from big corporations. Role of Third-Party Financiers Last but definitely not the least is topic (iv) of the post.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The previous four Cost Corner articles addressed the Cost Principles pertaining to the general criteria for determining the allowability of costs, direct and indirect costs, accounting for unallowable costs, and penalties for unallowable costs. 1] This definition is quite broad.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

First, in addressing some aspects of the definition of public works contracts that keep coming up in litigation in relation to relatively complex real estate transactions. This part of the dispute concerned the definition of ‘public works contracts’ under Directive 2014/24/EU (issue 1). The case was very interesting in three respects.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Although there is no clear consensus on its definition, this experience is usually understood to be how a user feels about an interactive tool linked to a product or service. The user experience is therefore a key component of the customer experience. But what does it cover? How is it different from the customer experience?

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 26, 2024

Far from being an exhaustive account, it focuses on French court decisions in the areas identified below. Although the CoA may have been influenced by the exceptional circumstances of the case (i.e. This post provides a recap of notable arbitration-related developments in France in 2023.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

will eventually ease monetary conditions to influence a lowering of interest rates. [15] And, if bond investors will only purchase Government debt at elevated interest rates, that will influence the interest rates across the wider economy—working against any moves that the Fed. treasuries. [13] 13] , [14] Think of it this way.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

These are meta-attributes or characteristics that refer to a rather broad set of principles in the design of the technology, but also of its specific deployment, and tend to proceduralise the taking into account of relevant considerations (eg which impact will the deployment have on the population affected).

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 21, 2024

courts have adapted their definition of what categorizes a violation of international law in accordance with the ICJ decision in Germany v. Damage claims are renowned for their inherent complexity, it is thus imperative to prepare for it preemptively. Italy , i.e, According to such a scenario, a violation of U.S.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

The Memo mandates that the agencies ensure that their staff is adequately trained to assess and oversee the AI, as well as provide additional human oversight and accountability when the AI is not permitted to act due to a rights- or safety-impacting issue that requires human mitigation.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Background, of PAP 2021-05. While the PAP’s Background section cites this definition of what is “fair and reasonable,” the PAP’s “guidance” sets standards and directives that raises questions whether, when read as a whole, it provides guidance that will result in a price and terms that are fair to both parties in a transaction.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 16, 2023

Accordingly – concurrent with the Executive Order – Treasury released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that provides some potential definitions of these terms, but the exact definitions and the details of the regulations will be developed through public notice and comment that concludes on September 28, 2023.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Given the limited availability of data, it is impossible to make an equally definitive statement regarding expertise. Conversely, a selection procedure providing for a choice by only one group of parties would only take their perspectives and preferences into account.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 18, 2025

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is a phrase regularly referenced by public sector institutions, strategic influencers, social sector organizations, nonprofits, and global CEOs as a transformational approach to leapfrogging citizen progress at scale. No ACCOUNT 123456789123 AWS account number. No CIDR 10.20.0.0/16

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

First , PPI “does not include imports, because imports are by definition not produced by domestic firms.” [10] 31] Generally speaking, the PCE is based on the national income and product accounts (“NIPA”) data which BEA uses to determine GDP. [32] billion more to account for inflation in military construction[,]” and “$2.5

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

All other definitions in the Memorandum begin with the term “an artificial system”, and then use the descriptive “requiring human-like perception”, “think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks”, “machine learning”, “intelligent software”, “reasoning”, etc., references. references.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 20, 2025

One of the basic things regarding the value of automation in the security context is that a manual process can be influenced, he said. We needed that level of objective definition, but we needed it to be more measurable in terms of performance, Yeske said. At the core, zero trust is… never trust and always verify.

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FedScoop

JULY 9, 2024

Ultimately, the ruling gives companies another avenue to challenge AI-related regulation and the judiciary more influence over an emerging technology they may not have the expertise to evaluate. The issues for AI regulation were foreshadowed during the oral arguments for the consolidated cases before the high court: Relentless v.

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