Federal News Network

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Interview Transcript: Zach Prince Well, it really depends on how the FAR council ends up refining the definitions. The FAR council said that in the proposed rule, because it touches anybody that has a contract, that includes some information and communication technology, which is a hugely broad definition of things.

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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our first session will cover: FAR Part 1 (Federal Acquisition Regulations System) and FAR Part 2 (Definitions of Words and Terms) ! The ability to take these actions may be limited to contracts up to a certain dollar threshold (a.k.a., Hello and thank you for joining us for Episode 1 of Fun with the FAR Season 11! FAR 1.602-1.

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SmallGovCon

MARCH 28, 2024

SBA’s definitions section of its government contracting regulations says the following: Similarly situated entity means a subcontractor that has the same small business program status as the prime contractor. under FAR 2.101 ), there are limitations on how much the prime can subcontract out to whom.

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Public Contracting Institute

AUGUST 19, 2024

The “orders under single-agency contracts” Policy (FAR 42.1502(d)) This policy owns definitive clout and the interpretation of this policy warrants some appreciative clarity and confirmation. The policy reads: “Orders under single-agency contracts. Is there a contradiction or what is the correct interpretation?

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Federal News Network

MAY 14, 2024

Historically, that was not a parallel process, but definitely a series process. Army updating ATO policy Garciga said by keeping programs under the RDT&E bucket, the Army is recognizing the other changes it needs to complete to make these efforts more successful. “We We need to relook at processes like interoperability.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 11, 2024

9 Senate-Passed 2024 NDAA set to Raise DoD Set-Aside Sole-Source Contract Threshold Limits. 6 FAR Final Rule: Increased Micro-Purchase and Simplified Acquisition Thresholds. The FAR was updated to increase the micro-purchase threshold and the simplified acquisition threshold, effective August 31, 2020.

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The CGP

AUGUST 11, 2023

In an economy where opportunities exist that provide definitized business commitments exceeding what is offered under the Schedules, rational firms will choose to engage in those alternative business opportunities.

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VWV

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Universities have successfully persuaded the Cabinet Office to introduce a minimum contract value threshold of £2 million in relation to some of the transparency requirements to reduce the administrative burden on universities, particularly regarding the publication of information.

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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our first session will cover: FAR Part 1 (Federal Acquisition Regulations System) and FAR Part 2 (Definitions of Words and Terms) ! The ability to take these actions may be limited to contracts up to a certain dollar threshold (a.k.a., Hello and thank you for joining us for Episode 1 of Fun with the FAR Season 11! FAR 1.602-1.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

More specifically, each BPA holder shall be provided a specific request for quote (RFQ) for procurement requirements of an anticipated total dollar value exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. Schedule contracts provide for an extensive volume of competitive cost/price offerings. Would the IDV be a more appropriate arrangement?

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

More specifically, each BPA holder shall be provided a specific request for quote (RFQ) for procurement requirements of an anticipated total dollar value exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. Schedule contracts provide for an extensive volume of competitive cost/price offerings. Would the IDV be a more appropriate arrangement?

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 20, 2024

This includes a fairly broad and future-oriented definition of AI, provisions on safeguarding confidentiality and furthermore, ensuring the integrity of the arbitral proceeding. However, before having a deeper look into the Guidelines themselves, one question needs to be answered: is there even a need for further rules?

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

OMB originally hinted in its Memorandum M-22-11 that for-profit entities were exempt from the BABA requirements due to their general exclusion from the definition of a “non-Federal entity” under the Uniform Guidance. The Guidance (generally) adopts the BAA’s definition of items made predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 26, 2024

There are dollar thresholds where you can bring a protest at GAO, but the court won’t hear protests of issuance or proposed issuance of orders. But the comparative statute for the Court of Federal Claims doesn’t include a definition. This was relating to an IDIQ contract.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

Achieving this balance is not trivial, and a crucial question arises: How can the definition and quality of these escape clauses impact a country’s ability to navigate economic shocks while maintaining fiscal discipline? For instance, an ECCI score of 0.7 The dotted lines around these averages represent a 95% confidence interval.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

MAY 9, 2024

Both prohibitions will apply to all procurements, including commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items, and purchases below the micro-purchase threshold: Section 5949(a)(1)(A) ( Part A ) prohibits agencies from acquiring electronic products or services that include covered semiconductor products or services.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The travaux preparatories of the Convention titled “ Report by the Secretary General ” dated 31 January 1956 indicate that whilst the contracting states considered including a definition of the term ‘arbitral award’ but, later, each Contracting State was given the flexibility to define its respective parameters.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

This criticism, even if it were true, would not reach the high threshold for a violation of public policy, in any event (para. The SFSC held that under these circumstances, it did not need to take the alleged facts into account (para.

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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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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

It is not clear how key employees will be defined here—for example, whether we should be looking to the definition of key employee from the newly organized concern affiliation test (of 13 C.F.R. Revising Definition of an “Employee” – Increasing the Minimum Hours Requirement. 126.103) for shared working spaces (or “coworking” spaces).

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This decision demonstrates that there must be definitive adverse agency action before the GAO will hear a protest; typically, the agency must fully eliminate an offeror from competing in the next round of the procurement, or the agency must make an award.

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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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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Anticipating additional caselaw on the definition of a “direct relationship” is both of interest and a potential necessity, as the amended provision introduces ambiguity surrounding this specific definition. What constitutes a “direct relationship” remains unclear, leaving room for various interpretations and potential disputes.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Administrators/Network Team 4 Ad-hoc change requests Change requests for larger changes, such as enabling Amazon Macie , onboarding of existing brown field accounts etc All personas Security Task Details Personas 1 Incident response process Definition of alerting and incident response process.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The new FAR clauses implementing these changes will apply to all contracts, including contracts below the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT), contracts or orders for commercial products or services (including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items), and orders under indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracting vehicles.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 3, 2024

As discussed below, this will be particularly relevant when considering the threshold that should be applied by the tribunal as some institutional rules adopt a different test (although as discussed further below some institutions may adapt their rules to reflect the proposed amendment).

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Definition of Compensation The FAR defines compensation for personal services to mean “all remuneration paid currently or accrued, in whatever form and whether paid immediately or deferred, for services rendered by employees to the contractor.” [1] 1] This definition is quite broad.

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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 1, 2024

The EO was intended to strengthen the requirements of the Buy American Act (“BAA”) by, among other things, directing the FAR Council to issue new rules increasing the domestic content threshold for determining whether a product qualifies as a domestic end product. Beginning in calendar year 2029, the threshold will be 75 percent.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

To be at the 100-employee threshold, the employer must be a “business enterprise that employs— (i) 100 or more employees, excluding part-time employees; or (ii) 100 or more employees, including part-time employees, who in the aggregate work at least 4,000 hours per week, exclusive of hours of overtime.” [57] see also Daniel Liberto, et al.,

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 28, 2023

Similarly to the other definitions, the IIJA requires that “all manufacturing processes for the construction material occurred in the United States.” In the face of strong opposition from some powerful lobbying groups like the United Steelworkers Union, DOT maintained fairly robust thresholds in line with the proposed waiver.

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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

FHWA is proposing that the definitions of component, manufactured product, and manufacturer be substantially similar to those used in the BABA implementing rule, only making minor changes to account for FHWA’s category of “excluded materials” discussed below.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 18, 2024

CISA discusses its process for determining key definitions in the rule (including approaches it considered and ultimately discarded); provides an overview of current cyber incident reporting requirements in the U.S. (as Entities that meet certain threshold criteria – regardless of size – are covered by the rule.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

MARCH 6, 2024

If this threshold cannot be met, DOL will use a weighted average as the third step to determine the prevailing wage. Previously, the Related Acts had a higher threshold for debarment, requiring the violation to be “aggravated or willful.” Site of the Work,” now includes expanded DBRA coverage of “Secondary Construction Sites.”

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Federal News Network

APRIL 30, 2024

In fact, you and I have talked about a couple of them, where the Trade Commission’s definition of an antitrust dynamic often is very narrowly focused in terms of what the interpretation is. They seem to favor actions against business, whether there’s any effect from what it is they’re moving against in the first place.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

MARCH 6, 2024

If this threshold cannot be met, DOL will use a weighted average as the third step to determine the prevailing wage. Previously, the Related Acts had a higher threshold for debarment, requiring the violation to be “aggravated or willful.”

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 23, 2024

Relying on this definition, the Claimants argued that KS&T’s emission allowances constituted “property” and therefore qualified as an investment under NAFTA. Property” is commonly included in the definition of “investment” in investment treaties, but many treaties do not expressly define “property.” The Koch v.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The threshold challenge here is to ensure that there is sufficient information in the marketplace to make this kind of requirement workable. This is why, for example, governments sometimes require vendors to compile information on there greenhouse gas emissions as a condition of qualification – see above.)

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