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Procurement Planning: Steps for Issuing a Solicitation

The Procurement School

The implied outcome is that we are seeking to insure value for taxpayer dollars. If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis. Sometimes the need is to assess the industry’s capacity to meet the procurement requirements.

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The Withdrawal by the EU and some Member States from the Energy Charter Treaty: International Protection for Energy Investments and Climate Change Related Carve-outs

Kluwer Arbitration

This is, in the words of Italy’s diplomacy , “to have secure, stable and predictable supplies at competitive prices for households and businesses, without failing to meet the binding commitment to long-term sustainability…” under the Paris Agreement.

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New Frontiers of Energy Disputes in the Era of Low Carbon Transition and Geopolitical Turbulence: The Focus of the 12th ITA-IEL-ICC Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

The rapid rise of renewables (as well as EV, which is also reliant on such minerals) has put massive pressure on mineral supplies, exposing projects to sharp price increases and delays. Acceleration towards new technology solutions has, moreover, already begun — perhaps most notably in the form of hydrogen and carbon capture storage.

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What to look for when investing in a space start-up

Federal News Network

And we need to get to a point where those can be off the shelf, and so you can start to proliferate the access to the hardware and start to typically reduce down the price instead having to buy lots. If you could harness that power in the right way, you could enable a much smaller or lower capex per watt of GPU power. Space is the opposite.

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

Particularly, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (“PCE”) core inflation rate for January 2024 was 2.8%. [30] 33] Importantly, since the inflation high water marks of 2022, mostly what has occurred is disinflation (decrease of the inflation rate), not actual deflation (price decreases). down from 5.5%

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The COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Legal Donnybrook Has Arrived

Procurement Notes

Tanvir , the Supreme Court made clear that, under RFRA, a government official can be sued in his/her individual capacity. [48] Price , the Supreme Court stated that “[p]rivate persons, jointly engaged with state officials in the prohibited action, are acting ‘under color’ of law. Price, 383 U.S. And it does not end there.

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Real Discussion of the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Contractors and Subcontractors

Procurement Notes

FAR Clause 52.243-4 ), including submitting a price adjustment claim and, if necessary, filing a claim appeal. Practically speaking, the contractor’s best opportunity for doing so is in its price proposal submitted in response to a covered solicitation. Is the vaccine mandate enforceable by a prime contractor against a subcontractor?