Federal News Network

JANUARY 30, 2024

On the face of it, it’s obviously a big deal for small businesses because now if you’re on one of these multiple award IQ contracts, the onus is going to be on the buying agency to come up with justifications to not give you task orders up to the simplified acquisition threshold, currently $250,000.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 26, 2024

To rule on Forbes IP’s petition, the Court applied the China Trade test which requires the movant to pass two threshold requirements and prevail on the balancing of five discretionary factors. Mexico and New York) and because Forbes IP’s anti-suit injunction would be dispositive of the Mexico Injunction.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

MVCR functionality included basic Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contracting, such as firm-fixed price (FFP) contracts, purchase orders, task or delivery orders, and indefinite delivery vehicles under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) and using the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) for making purchases of supplies or services.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 17, 2024

The standard of “ existence of dispute ” without any bona fide requirements appears to be a comparatively lower threshold indicating heightened deference to the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal when an operational debt is disputed. 13) Telnic at [29]-[32]. 18) At [18].

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

What might help tip the balance, is a single directory that aggregates all available opportunities and is searchable by government organisation, location and type. This varies from one government body to another, making planning and applying for other tenders unpredictable.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

b) the Arbitration Act being a self-contained code, its “dependence on other legislations is either absent or minimal,” and (c) balancing party autonomy with referral to arbitration. This makes the Judgment an important exposition of law in the field of arbitration for India.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 20, 2024

decisions made by referees or umpires or juries), unless there are fraud or corruption allegations, but this is a high threshold to reach. Provisional measures can be awarded, applying the classic criteria in arbitration of risk of irreparable harm, chances of success and balance of the parties’ interests.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 29, 2024

In KlimaSeniorinnen , the Court confirmed that the threshold under Article 34 ECHR for individual applicants alleging climate-related harm is “especially high.” Climate-related investment claims bring into sharp focus any tension between private (investor) rights and sovereign interests.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

For example, when we take a whole year of contracts after a transparency reform taking place in May, our estimation may be biased if a procurement regulatory reform happened 5 months later, such as a new reporting threshold introduced.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

FLSA exemption issues can arise when unpaid furlough periods reduce the compensation level of exempt employees below the threshold required for them to maintain their exempt status under federal, state, or local law. During a government shutdown, many government contractors implement unpaid furloughs of employees.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Additionally, they have set up daily and monthly billing alerts at the organization level to inform their finance and technical teams if costs surpass set thresholds. The UBC CIC balances diverse project requirements while maintaining security and cost-effectiveness, serving as a model for other AWS customers.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 22, 2024

This behavior showed that Colombia acted with a legitimate purpose, giving meaningful consideration to competing economic, environmental, and social interests to produce a balanced policy. The tribunal recognized Colombia’s efforts to protect páramos as proportionate and nondiscriminatory, given their environmental relevance.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 24, 2024

This behavior showed that Colombia acted with a legitimate purpose, giving meaningful consideration to competing economic, environmental, and social interests to produce a balanced policy. The tribunal recognized Colombia’s efforts to protect páramos as proportionate and nondiscriminatory, given their environmental relevance.

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Great Government Through Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We carefully balanced your feedback against agencies’ needs to be able to buy and manage cloud effectively. FinOps: At first, contractors were required to monitor and automatically suspend cloud services when consumption reached certain thresholds. We heard you! The contractor must also notify the eligible users.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

OJEU (Official Journal Of the European Union) Before Brexit, public contracts above certain thresholds had to be published in OJEU, ensuring fair competition across the EU. It considers evaluation criteria like quality, sustainability, innovation and overall value to select the best supplier. The UK now follows its procurement regulations.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 12, 2024

and Gabriella Palmieri (Italian Attorney General) highlighted the complex interaction between international, transnational and national law, and they agreed on the need to find a balance between environmental protection and economic competitiveness.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 2, 2024

There is a very high threshold for a Section 68 challenge. These reforms represent an attempt to strike a balance between the preference of many users of arbitration for a confidential procedure and call for more ‘open justice’, particularly in cases where the public interest is engaged.

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Corruption Ethics Transparency Import 52

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Thankfully, there are methods that encourage procurement simplification and SME participation while maintaining a balance between risk, quality, and standards. 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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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 2, 2024

All this is to be balanced with the desire and right of the claimant to have its claim resolved. However, there remains a lack of clarity as to the threshold of proportionality applied. The article suggests that challenges to LDs under English law have become more difficult.

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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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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

It is worth recalling that Auroux (C-220/05, EU:C:2007:31 ) concerned a case involving the signing of an agreement between a municipality and a special purpose vehicle with separate balance sheet to run a re-generation programme. That re-generation programme expected to make profits from the sale of real estate to third parties.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Court’s solicitation placed the US in a position to balance its interest in maintaining friendly relations with a key ally with its treaty obligations under the ICSID and New York Conventions to enforce international arbitral awards. The United States Argues that the District Court Must Determine that an Arbitration Agreement Exists.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Leveraging arbitration’s strengths can ensure smooth integration of data privacy protection in our interconnected world, balancing individual rights with the ever-growing demand for data. Therefore, any proposed dispute resolution mechanism should permit balancing privacy rights and public interests.

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Import and Trade Remedies

AUGUST 30, 2023

For example, the submission proposes that the current prohibition under Article 3(1)(b) of the SCM Agreement against conditioning access to subsidies on the satisfaction of local content requirements should not apply to developing country Members, provided that the use of domestic goods does not exceed a threshold to be agreed by Members.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 12, 2024

On this topic, Haugeneder discussed one of the Draft Provisions on Procedural and Cross-cutting Issues and emphasised the need to find balance between the right to property and the right of the state to regulate the use of that property. Smeureanu discussed expropriation protections. Russia and Stati v. Republic of Kazakhstan ).

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Such framing sets a higher threshold for establishing a violation of FET. The Protocol on Investment represents yet another attempt to balance the interest of investors and state parties by adding a narrowly defined standard of treatment—the administrative and judicial treatment—in lieu of an FET clause.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Tom Temin And that $2 million that you mentioned, contract threshold, that is a significant reduction from the requirement for periodic competition now, which is 10 million. And I’m just hoping that in the final rule that we see some move from the proposed rule back to the way that the DoD. Originally had proposed it.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 24, 2024

It offers the ability to balance your data through various techniques. Organizations can leverage Guardrails with configurable thresholds to filter hate speech, insults, misconduct, and prompt injection attacks. Additionally, organizations using Amazon SageMaker should consider using SageMaker Clarify.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In my view, it would also be important for the independent reviewing authority not to be involved in the future use of the AI, as its (future) operational interest could also be a source of bias in the testing process and the analysis of its results.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The PAP includes other directives and guidance that raise questions regarding equity and balance in the evaluation and negotiation of FSS pricing terms. 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.

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The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

Specific procurement requirements, including the dollar value thresholds beyond which a competitive process must be conducted, are typically embedded in internal policies and come from the various free trade agreements designed to eliminate discrimination based on jurisdiction of origin.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 16, 2024

.” After reviewing over 80 comments, “the feedback indicated a strong desire for SBA to reconsider the 80-hour rule or provide more nuanced alternatives that balance the goals of the HUBZone program with the practicalities of running small businesses and supporting diverse employees.”

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

Like the FAR rule, the new DFARS rule: Modifies the definition of domestic end product, qualifying country end product, and domestic construction material by increasing the domestic content threshold to 65 percent for calendar years 2024 through 2028, and to 75 percent beginning in calendar year 2029.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Accordingly, two issues came before the Court: What were the appropriate legal principles for a case management stay; and On balance, whether the case management stay should be granted. The Court held that the fact that the Claimant itself was applying for a stay did not alter the threshold as established in Tomolugen.

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Balance Thresholds Purchasing Corruption 52

Federal News Network

MARCH 4, 2025

Now, I’ve written about purchase cards when I wrote about micro purchase thresholds last year, and I think that there’s a lot to be lost if we discard the purchase cards. And they’ve got a 30 day pause on this dollar threshold. Last year, the government got over half $1 billion in rebates. Tom Temin: Yes.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Security for costs –– a balancing act Following welcome remarks from Caroline Falconer, Secretary General of the SCC, Dr Baltag introduced the topic of security of costs as being one of the timely topics currently addressed in international arbitration. Stockholm University and member of the Board of the SCC.

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 13, 2022

26] Section 503 and VEVRAA AAPs also apply (when thresholds are met) to a construction contractor/subcontractor on a Federal construction project, but not for a construction project that is merely Federally-assisted. [27] So, how does a contractor/subcontractor balance these competing obligations? citizens and green card holders.

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