Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Last Friday, September 29, the FAR Council published a proposed rule that would update the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 2020 changes to rules on when small businesses must recertify their status in connection with orders under multiple-award contracts. The SBA size and socioeconomic recertification rules are convoluted — especially in situations where a small business becomes a large business by virtue of an M&A transaction and w

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Many public sector customers are interested in building secure, cost-effective, reliable, and highly performant applications. Technologies like containerization and serverless help customers migrate and modernize their applications. In this blog post, learn how public sector customers use offerings from Amazon Web Services (AWS) like AWS Lambda , Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) , Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to build modern applications supporting diverse use case

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Malaysia has no shortage of scandals on the mismanagement of public funds. The Scorpene submarine affair and the more recent Littoral Combat Ship scandal centered around mismanagement within defence procurement. The infamous 1-Malaysia Development Berhad case (1MDB) – likely the largest global financial scandal to date – led to the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Najib Razak.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Every day, organizations across our country are impacted by cyber intrusions, many of which affect the delivery of essential services. Security professionals and business leaders alike recognize the need to protect their customers, employees and enterprises against this threat, which raises a simple but challenging question: Where to start? We at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency know that no organization can adopt every possible cybersecurity measure or solution, but every or

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Available on Demand | October 4, 2023 | 1 Hour | Training Certificate As agencies move to implement a zero trust architecture, the dispersed nature of their cloud-based and hybrid networks means more attention than ever must be paid to the security of Active Directory (AD), which administrators use to manage permissions and access to network resources by far-flung endpoints.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Air Force was 18 months into the Enterprise Cyber Capabilities acquisition and on the brink of making awards. The excitement over this potentially $5 billion multiple award indefinite delivery, indefinite quality contract among industry was a high as any opportunity on the street over the last few years. With a few strokes on the keyboard on Sept. 19, the Air Combat Command terminated EC2.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a guest post by Ari Jóhannesson, chief executive officer of Andes, a cloud infrastructure and security company, in collaboration with the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn more about Iceland’s digital transformation journey in this AWS Institute video series. The Icelandic Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs launched an ambitious initiative to accelerate the digital transformation of public services in Iceland in 2019.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s the moment many have been waiting for–SBA has reopened its Certify portal to new applicants seeking admission into the 8(a) Business Development Program. SBA closed the portal to all new 8(a) Program applicants in early August 2023, following a decision from the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee that took away applicant’s presumption of social disadvantage for certain designated groups.

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USFCR

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Federal contracting is more than just a business—it's a journey filled with twists and turns. One of those twists? Government shutdowns. But here at USFCR, we see these challenges as stepping stones to growth. So, let's talk about the recent 45-day spending bill and what it means for federal contractors.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 3, 2023

An unsteady camera lens captures figures enshrouded in the flickering semi-darkness of the room. Men in suits whisper in Spanish over a heavy wooden table. The Equatorian judge, his face captured by the concealed camera, stands up, signalling acceptance of the proposition: his decision for a $3 million bribe. This scene was forever etched into the Lago Agrio lawsuit , an environmental battle fought across international arbitrations and courtrooms.

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GovSpend

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It is the beginning of fiscal year 2024, and fortunately, a federal shutdown has been avoided, at least for now! With so much occurring in the world, whether it be on the political or economic front, it is always intriguing to observe the spend in the realm of federal contracts. For FY 23, the federal government has awarded $627.28B in federal contracts as of 30th September 2023 to 104,164 companies.

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Traple Konarski Podrecki & Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Podstawą transportu produktów leczniczych są wytyczne zgromadzone w Dobrej Praktyce Dystrybucyjnej, która gwarantuje bezpieczne przyjmowanie, transportowanie, przechowywanie i wydawanie produktów leczniczych. Znajdziemy je w rozporządzeniu Ministra Zdrowia z dnia 13 marca 2015 r. w sprawie wymagań Dobrej Praktyki Dystrybucyjnej (tj. Dz. U. z 2022 r. poz. 1287).

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GovSpend

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It is the beginning of fiscal year 2024, and fortunately, a federal shutdown has been avoided, at least for now! With so much occurring in the world, whether it be on the political or economic front, it is always intriguing to observe the spend in the realm of federal contracts. For FY 23, the federal government has awarded $627.28B in federal contracts as of 30th September 2023 to 104,164 companies.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) solution from Amazon Web Services (AWS) deploys a cloud foundation that is architected to align with AWS best practices and multiple global compliance frameworks. Customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can use the LZA to better manage and govern their multi-account environment.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Federal agencies wouldn’t be able to place minimum education requirements on cybersecurity jobs — unless required by law — under a bipartisan bill passed by the House of Representatives on Monday. The Modernizing the Acquisition of Cybersecurity Experts Act, or MACE Act, ( H.R. 4502 ) is aimed at addressing shortages in federal cybersecurity positions by expanding the pool of eligible applicants and passed easily in a 394-1 vote.

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Import and Trade Remedies

OCTOBER 3, 2023

2023 has proven to be another dynamic year under the Government of Canada’s trade agenda, which showed no signs of slowing over the summer. From May to August 2023, the Government passed into law novel supply chain transparency legislation and introduced amendments and legislative proposals that are impacting, or will impact, compliance with Canadian customs, export controls, and economic sanctions legislation.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Biden administration is proposing a new standardized set of cybersecurity procurement requirements across the federal government for contractors that work with unclassified federal information systems. This proposed rule would amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to include minimum requirements for cybersecurity contracts that involve federal information systems instead of leaving it up to agencies to set those requirements, according to a Tuesday notice in the Federal Register.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the White House directed federal agencies to incorporate interim Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (SC-GHG) estimates into a wide range of federal agency actions, including each agency’s procurement function. This most recent direction builds upon the Administration’s ongoing and wide-reaching effort (examples discussed here and here ) to leverage federal procurement spending in pursuit of climate change and sustainability policy objectives.

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