Import and Trade Remedies

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

114-125 ) to increase the de minimis threshold for imports into the United States from $200 to $800, far exceeding similar thresholds in other countries globally. It would maintain the $800 cap but apply lower thresholds with countries on the basis of reciprocity. De Minimis Reciprocity Act of 2023 ( S. Blumenauer.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This article explores practical approaches to streamline public sector procurement processes and focuses on increasing participation from Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). All applicable treaties and updated policies allow for flexibility below fixed dollar thresholds and offer legitimate exemptions for a range of circumstances.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Approximately 250,000 public authorities in the European Union spend 2 trillion pounds or 14 percent of the Gross National Product purchasing works, services, and supplies. When the government purchases goods and services from private businesses, the process is known as public procurement. What is Public Procurement?

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Functional Jurisdiction of the Competent Court The Appellant’s second challenge concerned the interpretation and application of Article 226 of the UAE Federal Law No. In dismissing this challenge, the CoC held that Article 226 primarily addresses territorial (or geographical) jurisdiction. Dubai CoC No.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This decision is consistent with other decisions we have analyzed in previous articles. 4] In this case, five unsuccessful vendors, including Skyward, filed protests challenging the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ award of multiple blanket purchase agreements. Thus, the GAO sustained the protest.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In government contracting, if a contract value exceeds a certain dollar threshold and an international trade agreement governing procurement is applicable, the BAA domestic preferences will be waived in favor of permitting acquisition of TAA-compliant products. It may not be a lot on which to rely, but at least it’s a start.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 18, 2024

For more background on the initial draft RFP, Baker Tilly published an article that is available here. Read the full article here. On January 26, 2023, the procuring agency issued a Request for Quote (RFQ) to award a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) under the FSS.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Slovak Government decided not to purchase the stadium and it instead challenged the compatibility with EU law of the State aid package due to a fundamental breach of procurement law. Once the stadium was built, NFŠ exercised the put option. This is not what the ECJ wrote in its Judgment.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

setting employee compensation, hiring and firing of employees, setting a budget, borrowing money, purchasing equipment, paying dividends, etc.) JV Purchase – Right of First Refusal to the Protégé. would not give rise to control and, therefore, affiliation, while the ability to block an ordinary action (e.g.,

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The threshold for relying on this ground is high – a contracting authority needs to be able to show there is only one provider in the relevant market supported by market studies, not simply that other suppliers would be more expensive or would face economic or technical difficulties in meeting the requirements.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

DECEMBER 27, 2023

These requirements are expected to be included in all DoD solicitations valued above the micro-purchase threshold, except for procurements that are exclusively for commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. View the full article

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

This provision of the NDAA seems targeted at bridging the communication gap between the agencies by requiring that the parties to a proposed transaction over the HSR threshold provide a copy of their HSR filing directly to DoD. View the full article

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 28, 2023

For instance: “Iron or steel products” means “articles, materials, or supplies that consist wholly or predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both.” In addition, “[m]inor additions of articles, materials, supplies, or binding agents to a construction material do not change the characterization of the construction material.”

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SmallGovCon

JULY 19, 2024

We have included an extensive list of informative articles for this week in review. At the top of our week in review articles, SmallGovCon contributor Nicole Pottroff was quoted in a touching Washington Post story that we have included this week, concerning the SBA’s 8(a) Program social disadvantage narrative requirements.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

If you simply cannot wait for Part II, understandable; in the meantime, please check out this article regarding the proposed Rule of Two update and some of the concerns already being raised in the industry–it even quotes yours truly. The general small business Rule of Two is similarly codified at both FAR 19.502-2 and 13 C.F.R.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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). Note: Potential offerors should also review Baker Tilly’s article covering updates from draft RFP 1 to draft RFP 2. The CMMC 2.0

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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). Note: Potential offerors should also review Baker Tilly’s article covering updates from draft RFP 1 to draft RFP 2. 89 FR 68274.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article breaks down the essential rules every contractor needs to know. FASA streamlined the contracting process and reduced paperwork by allowing simplified acquisition procedures for most purchases, in accordance with the armed services procurement act.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This article cuts through complexity to address when sole sourcing is necessary, the justification process, and how to manage the associated risks. A sole source purchase is justified when unique attributes or circumstances dictate that only one provider is capable of supplying the desired goods or services.

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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 15, 2024

A future article in the Friday Flash will provide more details on the requirements in these DFARS clauses. This case was distinguishable from other OHA size appeal decisions, where a price had not been agreed upon or where a potential purchase was conditioned on the seller reaching financial targets.

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Inside Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Government’s purchase of goods and services produced in the United States and Executive Order 14104 to increase domestic manufacturing and commercialization in certain research and development supported by federal funding. Both sides of the political aisle have marched to a drumbeat of increased domestic sourcing for the past several years.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They do not require the government to purchase all its requirements from FSS program contracts. Significantly, FSS Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), which leverage individual agency requirements, now account for over 53% of the dollar value of orders under the program. Yet, FSS contracts are not requirements contracts.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 4, 2024

You can read more about these topics and news from this week in the articles below. Some highlights include GSA starting the COMET II contracting process, and new guidelines on AI tool procurement for federal agencies. Have a great weekend! Carahsoft raid may be a wake up call for the reseller market U.S.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

MARCH 12, 2024

At the federal level, contractors that import products, parts, packaging, equipment or other articles with components that contain PFAS must confront new and extensive regulatory reporting requirements relating to such imports going back to 2011, and they must do so by May 2025. What is the reporting standard?

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

MAY 20, 2024

The most recent round of new regulations and initiatives finds the administration seeking to strengthen purchasing mandates of sustainable goods and services, as well as laying the groundwork for significant restrictions on the federal procurement of products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). View the full article

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 8, 2025

Its a good chance to look back on the important articles from 2024, and those topics of continuing interest to federal contractors. FAR Final Rule: Increased Micro-Purchase and Simplified Acquisition Thresholds. Here are the top 10 blog posts that were posted in 2024.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Background Facts In January 2013, the Defendant contracted to purchase shares in a company from the Claimant in two tranches. The share purchase agreement provided for the purchase consideration to be adjusted depending on the company’s final valuation as computed on several parameters.

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 5, 2021

18] On this point, it is important to remember that the dollar thresholds for the SCA (in excess of $2,500), [19] the DBA (in excess of $2,000), [20] and the Order-imposed threshold for the FLSA (presently in excess of $10,000) [21] do not apply at the subcontract level. [22] Additionally, DoL has previously made this warning.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

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] 36] Specifically, unlike the CPI, the PCE does not merely account for goods and services purchased by a consumer, but also purchased on the consumer’s behalf (e.g.,

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