Import and Trade Remedies

OCTOBER 3, 2023

CARM Release 2 Officially launched in May 2021, CARM is a multi-year initiative that is intended to simplify how importers account for goods, request advance rulings, adjust/correct declarations, and pay duties and taxes through the eponymous “ CARM Client Portal ”.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 11, 2024

For bulk sensitive personal data, there is a yet-to-be-determined volume threshold that must be involved in the transaction for it to be covered. Suggested thresholds in the ANPRM range from data sets on 100 U.S. Government-related data, there is no threshold requirement and the data categories will be covered regardless of volume.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This perspective defines a project management office, the importance of cloud-specific governance reviews, and the value in applying an agile approach to cloud projects. What is the solution and most important customer benefit? Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop.

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The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

In addition to other stakeholders, the public sector is accountable to taxpayers and auditors, while the private sector is under the watchful eye of a company’s board and its shareholders. The thresholds that trigger compliance with each trade agreement differ among core government, the MASH sector and Crown entities.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2024, the Government Accountability Office has published 35 decisions, but only two of which resulted in decisions sustaining the challenge. To meet this threshold, a protester must demonstrate that, but for the agency’s actions, it would have had a substantial chance of receiving the award.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 23, 2024

KS&T was a market participant in OCTP with tracking accounts for emission allowances in Ontario and California. Accordingly, it was insufficient that KS&T had purchased allowances in Ontario auctions with an Ontario tracking account. Both KS&T and its parent company, Koch Industries, are US companies.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For details on this important case, the Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with attorney Stephen Bacon of Rogers-Joseph-O’Donnell. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin So this was protested, not to the [Government Accountability Office (GAO)], but to the court in the first place, the Court of Federal Claims.

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

AUGUST 20, 2024

As federal agencies and states grapple with regulating artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its safety profile, and as businesses race to adopt AI for myriad purposes, it is important to recognize a general safety framework already exists in the form of product liability laws.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

And that doesn’t even account for an igloo-sized elephant in the room. Almost 79,000 households were spending more than 30% of their income on housing-related costs, the report noted, exceeding a threshold that, according to HUD, impacts the ability to pay for other basic needs.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 29, 2024

This symposium is an excellent opportunity for contracts and compliance professionals, Federal account executives, and other professionals to stay informed and ensure their organizations are prepared for current and future cybersecurity requirements from their Federal customers. 1] The Government Accountability Office denied the protest.

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Select GCR

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Participating in the program opens avenues for securing federal contracts through sole-source awards, eliminating the need for competitive bidding up to a designated threshold. A narrative is a structured account or story that describes a series of events or experiences. What is a narrative?

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In January 2024, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) published 31 bid protest decisions, two of which resulted in decisions sustaining the protesters’ challenges. There were also two requests for costs, one of which was denied, and one request for consideration, which was, unsurprisingly, denied. Thus, the GAO sustained the protest.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

However, considering the greater risk, efforts, time, and expenses involved in non-recognition of an award as opposed to the removal of an arbitrator during the arbitration proceedings, courts across the world have applied a higher threshold of bias to prevent the enforcement of an award than the standards set for ordinary judicial review.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

The SFSC held that under these circumstances, it did not need to take the alleged facts into account (para. This criticism, even if it were true, would not reach the high threshold for a violation of public policy, in any event (para.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Alerting and notifications: CloudWatch canaries can initiate alerts and notifications based on predefined thresholds, enabling teams to quickly respond to issues and minimize downtime. let i++ ; Next is one of the most important aspects of the build: the hashing logic and deployment packaging. Emptying the Amazon S3 buckets.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The proposed rules offer important insights into the CMMC program: Subcontractor Compliance. Further, confirming the broad applicability of CMMC, DOD confirmed that these requirements will be applicable to contracts below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (which currently sits at $250,000).

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

Countries often involve legislative power in activation and accounting. Escape clauses are an important element of fiscal rules, as they help striking a balance between fiscal rigidity and adaptability, which is crucial for managing economic challenges.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This symposium is an excellent opportunity for contracts and compliance professionals, Federal account executives, and other professionals to stay informed and ensure their organizations are prepared for current and future cybersecurity requirements from their Federal customers. The CMMC 2.0

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Media accounts widely reported the US’ Amicus as supportive of Spain. First, the Amicus argues that a US court must make “its own determination that an arbitration agreement exists” as a “threshold” matter of determining its jurisdiction under FSIA. Amicus at 1). Amicus at 10, 16). Amicus at 13). Amicus at 9).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

Cybersecurity Panel (CMMC, Cyber Threat Reporting, and More) As we all know, cybersecurity is of paramount importance in today’s interconnected world. In an era where cyber threats are constantly evolving and becoming more sophisticated, it is important to keep up with the most recent policies and practices.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This principle could be applied to the current generation of models, or applied when certain capability thresholds were met. This would create certain ‘gates’ that a model had to pass through before it could be deployed.

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Great Government Through Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Data ownership and portability: Ascend establishes the requirement that agencies own their accounts and data, and cloud service providers (CSPs) have to make the data portable in case the agency wants to move it. It will provide access only to FedRAMP– or Department of Defense Cloud Authorization Services (DCAS)– authorized cloud solutions.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

I think we recently saw an article that we crossed $100 billion a year market share threshold, which was somewhat unheard of just even a few years ago, but it’s all due to an unknown. So supply chain risk management and elimination becomes a very important discipline. And so we do take that into account very, very closely.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

He began with the Government Accountability Office before serving as Chief Counsel to the then-GSA Board of Contract Appeals. This Legal Update summarizes the Court’s decision and highlights important takeaways for federal contractors that pursue OT opportunities. Tom also was Counsel to the U.S. 24-160 (July 16, 2024).

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. In order (sic) words, public procurement is rich in data, but poor in making it work for taxpayers, policy makers and public buyers.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The new FAS structure provides an opportunity to increase transparency through sustained engagement with industry in this important area. The program is currently testing 20 technologies, including electric vehicle supply equipment, germicidal ultraviolet to sterilize air, and greenhouse gas accounting.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 31, 2022

The second measure is to implement a Global Minimum Tax on corporates so that the accounting profits of multinationals are subject to an effective minimum tax rate of 15%. New features of the proposal It is important to acknowledge that is a very innovative proposal. Reform challenges The proposal also poses significant challenges.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Standards promulgated by the CAS [Cost Accounting Standards] Board, if applicable, generally accepted accounting principles and practices appropriate to the circumstances. The September 2023 Cost Corner concluded a three-part series on TINA. 10] A cost is allowable only if it meets all of the following requirements: Reasonableness.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Contract type and the availability of a remedy from the government for the consequences of a shutdown will also be important in the decision-making process. Contractors considering protest should note that the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) will be closed during the shutdown. What Remedies Are Available?

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 20, 2024

Decisions regarding disclosure of the use of AI tools shall be made on a case-by-case basis taking account of the relevant circumstances, including due process and any applicable privilege. The inclusion in the Guideline itself rather than in the commentary as per the draft, shows the importance of the arbitrator’s obligation to draft awards.

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

18] And, for DoD, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) 216.203-4 limits the use of the FAR EPA clauses to DoD contracts that exceed the simplified acquisition threshold (presently $250,000 with exceptions), and performance is longer than six months. [19] GAO’s competitive prejudice threshold should be similar.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 16, 2024

A high threshold is applicable to s. It will also involve a consideration of the defences, which may be skeletal at that stage and should take into account all reasonably foreseeable defences to the claim. République du Congo v. Unless the right to object is lost for reasons of finality and subject to the procedural restrictions in s.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Prerequisites To perform the solution, you must have the following prerequisites in place: Have an AWS account. On the Add Languages page, select the best options for your use case for Select language , Voice interaction , and Intent classification confidence score threshold , as shown in the following screenshot. Perform testing.

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Procurement Notes

JULY 28, 2021

Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) or the U.S. Army Materiel Command (“AMC”) states that “[t]his office applies the GAO’s $25 million jurisdictional threshold to protests of task and delivery orders issued under Department of Defense (DoD) procurements. Not an Acceptably Independent Forum It cannot be just any bid protest.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

During the Coalition’s Cybersecurity Symposium: The Cyberside Chat last week, Stacy Bostjanick, DoD’s Chief of Industrial Base Cybersecurity, emphasized the importance of CUI training. However, a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlighted the importance of improving data collection in these spaces.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The FIT Act would authorize agencies to make advanced payments for cloud computing services, increase the simplified acquisition threshold from $250,000 to $500,000 and the micro-purchase threshold from $10,000 to $25,000, and require Federal procurement officers to take cross-functional training. The CMMC 2.0

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 28, 2023

A flurry of new domestic-preference updates brings greater clarity to the requirements and imparts important lessons that government contractors should know when bidding for and performing on federal financial assistance programs. It is important to note the test does not incorporate costs related to the manufacture of the product.

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