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Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Pricing Paradoxes

The CGP

Contracting officers must assess, analyze, and apply these factors when reviewing an offeror’s proposal and negotiating fair and reasonable pricing. Read the recent FAR & Beyond blog on this topic here. Previous FAR & Beyond blogs regarding this topic can be found here and here.

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The nexus between data management tools, transparency and procurement policy

Federal News Network

Underlying these tools is a price analysis algorithm that assesses or compares several pricing data points to generate a “market threshold” that can then be used to determine whether a proposed price is fair and reasonable based on the market information available to GSA. Moreover, there is precedent for it.

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The Nexus Between Data Management Tools, Transparency and Procurement Policy

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Underlying these tools is a price analysis algorithm that assesses or compares several pricing data points to generate a “market threshold” that can then be used to determine whether a proposed price is fair and reasonable based on the market information available to GSA. Moreover, there is precedent for it.

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GSA Moves Forward with a New EPA, Consistency is the Next Opportunity

The Coalition for Government Procurement

It also lowered the approval threshold for EPA increase requests and allowed for the removal and re-addition of contract items at higher, renegotiated prices. We called for language clarifying the necessity of market research, using market indexes, and identifying time limits for EPA reviews and negotiations.

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Understanding the new Procurement Act 2023: What suppliers need to know - Part 1

VWV

In this two-part blog series, we answer frequently asked questions to help you understand the impact of the Act and how to prepare. For below threshold contracts , Contracts Finder will still be active. For above threshold contracts , the new Central Digital Platform will be the primary tool for finding upcoming opportunities.

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Advances in the new international taxation and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

These percentages are the result of political negotiations and, consequently, debatable, particularly since knowledge mega-enterprises look set to become ever larger in the future and will reside mostly in developed economies, limiting the laudable redistributive function.

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Efforts to Curtail the Global Race on Industrial Subsidies

Import and Trade Remedies

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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