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Public Procurement: Delivering Value to a Community While Making Profit

Tracker Intelligence

In short, public procurement allows local businesses to serve their communities and taxpayers well. Such a service requires the government to procure contracts in a well-managed and efficient manner. Furthermore, when the government improves its public procurement process, it can save significant amounts of money.

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Bid Protest Hub – November 2023

Government Contracts & Investigations

As contracting activities are busy awarding new contracts, it is important to follow the trends related to successful and effective protests as you consider filing your own bid protest, or as you defend your award as an intervenor. Below we dive into recent bid protest decisions and identify what won, what did not win, and why.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

This implies using simple processes for straightforward transactions and more sophisticated processes for complex ones, such as relational contracts introduced by Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart during the event. Leverage strategic planning and adaptive governance to manage uncertainty in procurement spending.

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Friday Flash 08/16/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

A future article in the Friday Flash will provide more details on the requirements in these DFARS clauses. 4 The Court rejected the government’s contention that because OTs are not procurement contracts subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”), they are necessarily removed from the Court’s bid protest jurisdiction.

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Who Gets The New $15 Per Hour Contractor Minimum Wage?

Procurement Notes

17] So, where the prime contract is for services subject to the SCA, if the subcontract is for supplies (even though the supplies may be prime contract deliverables), that subcontract does not count. [18] If the individual falls short of the 20% threshold, the minimum wage is required for none of the hours for that week.

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Adapting to a Changing World, not without Difficulties: Kolin (C-652/22) -- Guest post by Prof Roberto Caranta

How to Crack a Nut

The Court of Justice judgment in Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret ( C-652/22 ) (‘ Kolin ’), which addresses for the first time the legal position of third country economic operators wishing to bid for a procurement contract in one of the Member States, must in my view be read in this changing context. 46 and 47). 58 and 59).