Government Contracts

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Spain's competition authority said on Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into a group of travel companies that it suspects of colluding to share clients, public tenders and sensitive information.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. As a result, the Ministry of Education worked with universities to curate the content themselves and saved the government RD$4 billion (~US$70 million). More recently, it canceled a RD$1.3

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A California federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a disbarred attorney to 33 months in prison following his guilty plea for accepting a $2 million kickback as part of a collusive lawsuit scheme involving the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, a sentence exceeding the government's request for 18 months.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

19, 2023, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) held that the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) had made an impermissible conversion to competitive proposals (negotiated procurement) and sustained a protest. However, the bid exceeded the Independent Government Estimate (“IGE”) of $46.6 In Great Lakes Dredge & Drydock Co.,

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 7, 2024

2023) , the Supreme Court recognized that plaintiffs may bring a civil suit under the expansive Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for judgment-creditors’ illicit conduct and collusion (“racketeering” under the statute) to avoid payment of an arbitral award which has been recognized and enforced as a U.S.

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Select GCR

MAY 14, 2024

Simply put, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is the primary rulebook governing all federal government procurement processes. As you navigate this guide, expect to uncover the intricacies of FAR, how it’s structured, and what it means for contracting with the federal government. government procurement.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

Or, in other words, to use the acquisition of digital technologies by the public sector as a gateway to the ‘regulation by contract’ of their use and governance. Public procurement is thus increasingly expected to play a crucial gatekeeping role in the adoption of digital technologies for public governance and the delivery of public services.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

To address those issues, the European Commission was planning to ‘ Elaborate a data initiative for public procurement data covering both the EU dimension (EU datasets, such as TED) and the national ones ’ by the end of 2020, which would be ‘ complemented by a procurement data governance framework ’ by mid 2021. This is the correct approach.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Even from this relatively narrow perspective of procurement as a process-based mechanism of public governance, procurement attracts a significant amount of attention from EU legislators and from the EU Courts and is an area of crucial importance in the development of the European administrative space.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 25, 2024

Additionally, tax administrations will be able to support the government in key areas such as: Advance economic monitoring for making micro and macroeconomic forecasts, as the transactions of the economy are known in real time, based on economic sector, geographical area, and type of taxpayer.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The scope of federal antitrust enforcement under the second Trump administration remains uncertain, but the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, which collaborates with federal and state agencies to enforce antitrust laws in the government procurement space, is likely to remain active so contractors must stay vigilant, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr. (..)

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