The CGP

AUGUST 18, 2023

Thank you to everyone who attended Wednesday’s Joseph P. Caggiano Memorial Golf Tournament! It was a beautiful day for golf, as we were fortunate to have clear skies and sunshine all day at Whiskey Creek. So too, the presence, enthusiasm, and generosity of our members made this year’s tournament a remarkable success. As was seen in the awards ceremony, our members’ commitment to the goals of this event extended beyond the greens, as we were able raise funds for two wonderful causes that directly

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 16, 2023

You are reading the July 2023 Update of the Bass, Berry & Sims Enforcement Roundup, where we bring notable enforcement actions, policy changes, interesting news articles, and a bit of our insight to your inbox. To stay up to date, subscribe to our GovCon & Trade blog. If you have questions about any actions addressed in the Roundup, please contact the international trade team.

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Coleman Jackson, P.C.

AUGUST 14, 2023

Legal Thought’s – Episode 3 of Dealing with IRS Exams (Worker Misclassification) Coleman Jackson, P.C. | Transcript of Legal Thoughts Published August 14, 2023 Attorney introduction: Welcome to Legal Thoughts! My name is Coleman Jackson and I am an attorney at Coleman Jackson, P.C., a taxation, litigation, and immigration law firm based in Dallas, Texas.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

What the public sees when they use government services: updates on their packages’ travels through the mail system, the latest weather alerts, first responders jumping into hazardous situations without hesitation. What the public doesn’t see: the behind-the-scenes work that federal IT specialists put in to make sure those services operate without hesitation, and the imagination that they use to come up with the solutions when the environment in which they’re working is complicated.

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Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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GovLoop

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) sounds like a vague and complicated term, but it simply means smart objects like appliances, wearable tech, or vehicles that can collect or share data. When agencies collect data from IoT resources, they need a centralized platform that can make the vast amount of information they are receiving more manageable. They’ll also need to be able to apply analytics to help guide the organization’s decision-making process while generating actionable insights via

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Discussions & Clarifications

AUGUST 17, 2023

We recently wrote about a federal court decision in Ultima Servs. Corp. v. U.S. Dep't of Agric. , which held that the "rebuttable presumption" of social disadvantage under Small Business Administration's ("SBA") 8(a) Program ("8(a) Program") was unconstitutional. Following the court's decision, SBA paused all applications for its 8(a) Program and provided a short update on certify.SBA.gov.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Startling a well-trained, Right Stuff astronaut takes some doing, but Dr. Joe Schmid recently managed to, with the help of augmented reality. The NASA flight surgeon and his team used Microsoft’s HoloLens and Kinect camera to project a live, holographic image of Schmid on board the International Space Station. “I knew we had connected when the crew member said, ‘Whoa!

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GovLoop

AUGUST 15, 2023

A journey map is a blueprint that tracks a typical consumer’s experience with a product or service and shows what that person encounters at each stage of their interaction. The maps feature icons, multiple colors, and some combination of charts and diagrams, making them useful tools for understanding and improving agency CX. You do not draft journey maps on a whim.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Supreme Court recently decided in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski , that federal district courts must stay trial proceedings pending the resolution of an interlocutory appeal of the denial [1] of a motion to compel arbitration. See Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski , No. 22–105, slip op. at 10. Under Section 16(a) of the Federal Arbitration Act, when a district court denies a motion to compel arbitration, the party seeking to compel arbitration is entitled to an immediate (interlocutory) appeal on that is

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 17, 2023

“For men like Ford, Firestone, and Edison, whose success in the world had given them access to any thing they. The post Restoring Business Imagination Through Nature appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2023

Without network management tools, federal IT environments could quickly grow unwieldy. These tools give administrators the ability to maintain, monitor and manage the network to ensure it remains reliable as new applications and services are added. When these critical tools are targeted, immediate action must be taken to protect the network.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 18, 2023

Constituents depend on digital engagements to connect with state and local government — they’re going online to pay utility bills, apply for permits and renew vehicle registrations. Unfortunately, a number of factors can get in the way of ensuring secure and stress-free digital interactions for state and local constituents, including: Bad actors are well aware of vulnerabilities in backend outdated solutions, yet IT departments may lack the resources to keep these systems patched.

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Extract Systems

AUGUST 15, 2023

We are less than one month away from CTC 2023 in Phoenix, AZ September 12th through the 14th! The opening keynote will be delivered by the host of Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn. Tech Nation and its regular segment, BioTech Nation, air on National Public Radio and in separate podcast streams. Dr. Gunn’s work focuses on the good and bad of what AI is doing with Big Data.

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Government Contracts Navigator

AUGUST 15, 2023

Merle M. DeLancey, Jr. ● The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) regularly denies protests because an offeror made assumptions in its proposal. To the offeror, such assumptions seem perfectly reasonable but to an agency the assumptions are incorrect or contrary to the agency’s intended procurement approach. As a result, the offeror’s proposal is rejected as non-compliant.

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Select GCR

AUGUST 14, 2023

Notice to all Government Contractors If you have a SCA-Covered contract, this message relates to you. The Department of Labor announced that effective June 27, 2023, the Health and Welfare Fringe Benefit Rates have increased for those Service Contract Act wage determinations. The low-level service employee’s increased benefit is $4.98 per hour, or $199.20 per week, or $863.20 per month.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 18, 2023

Active listening is one of those soft skills everyone agrees is critical to success on the job but that few people take time to define except in the most general terms. In general, the practice is defined as giving someone your full attention and helping them express themselves more clearly. But how, exactly, do you do that? In a recent article, the job site Indeed.com identified 11 specific skills that you can practice.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

London’s Ukraine Recovery Conference saw combined international pledges of $60 billion to support the country’s transformation and reform program. In a powerful act of defiance, Ukrainians are already working to “build back better” from Russia’s appalling war of aggression. The scale of the coordination needed will be huge. A recent assessment calculates the physical damage from the first year of the war at over $135 billion.

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 13, 2023

Looking at any of the digital procurement ‘spider charts’ suggests that procurement is an incubator for a vast array of. The post [Pod] The Care and Feeding of the Procurement Startup Ecosystem appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Holland & Knight: Government Contracts

AUGUST 17, 2023

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) provided an update on the SBA's implementation of the Ultima decision regarding a "rebuttable presumption" of social disadvantage to qualify for the SBA's 8(a) Business Development Program.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 17, 2023

Government has plenty of data that can be used to advance the mission and improve customer experience, cybersecurity and system performance, especially when combined with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The problem is that it lives in many different environments. “It’s on prem, it’s off prem, it’s multicloud, it’s structured, it’s unstructured,” said Chris Townsend, Vice President for Public Sector at Elastic, which helps agencies find the answers they need from data in r

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 17, 2023

This week’s episode covers a final DOL rule relating to OFCCP’s pre-enforcement resolution procedures, regulatory updates on sustainable procurement and CMMC, and a bid protest decision regarding unfair competitive advantage, and is hosted by Peter Eyre and Yuan Zhou. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Supreme Court recently decided in Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski , that federal district courts must stay trial proceedings pending the resolution of an interlocutory appeal of the denial [1] of a motion to compel arbitration. See Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski , No. 22–105, slip op. at 10. Under Section 16(a) of the Federal Arbitration Act, when a district court denies a motion to compel arbitration, the party seeking to compel arbitration is entitled to an immediate (interlocutory) appeal on t

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Government Contracts Navigator

AUGUST 16, 2023

Anthony Rapa, George T. Boggs, and Alan G. Kashdan ● The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”) recently released the unclassified version of its statutorily mandated annual report to Congress, covering calendar year 2022. Viewed in the context of prior CFIUS reports to Congress, the report, released July 31, 2023, highlights key … Continue reading "6 Key Takeaways from the CFIUS 2022 Annual Report" The post 6 Key Takeaways from the CFIUS 2022 Ann

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Discussions & Clarifications

AUGUST 15, 2023

On August 22 & 23, 2023, Joshua Duvall will be participating in the 2023 National HUBZone Conference in Leesburg, VA as both a presenter and panel moderator. On August 22, Josh will present Bid Protests 101 , and on August 23, Josh will moderate a panel called Navigating Regulatory and Policy Updates in Government Cyber Security Protocols: Ensuring Compliance and Strengthening Resilience.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 15, 2023

Although the COVID-19 public health declaration officially ended in May, government investigations of pandemic relief fraud are from over. As observed in a recent report by the Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General, investigations will likely ensue for years to come in light of Congress’s decision to extend the statute of limitations to ten years for pandemic relief fraud.

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Holland & Knight: Government Contracts

AUGUST 16, 2023

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) authorized the use of a commercial solutions opening (CSO) for the acquisition of commercial products and services.

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WIFCON: Government Contracts

AUGUST 17, 2023

Robert K. Tompkins, Leila S. George-Wheeler, Hillary J. Freund, Kelsey M.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

AUGUST 14, 2023

Early this month, several electrical trade associations urged the Biden administration to implement pragmatic BABA rules. In the letter sent to the Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator at the White House, the associations highlighted that “[t]he inability to deploy resources and technologies due to BABA compliance barriers and complexities will result in fewer infrastructure, decarbonization, and electrification projects in the coming years.” [1] BABA is part of the Infrastructure In

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 14, 2023

Crowell & Moring’s “All Things Protest” podcast keeps you up to date on major trends in bid protest litigation, key developments in high-profile cases, and best practices in state and federal procurement. In this episode, hosts Christian Curran and Rob Sneckenberg discuss the latest Court of Federal Claims decision disagreeing with a Government Accountability Office key personnel ruling, as well as what it means for contractors going forward.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

AUGUST 14, 2023

Early this month, several electrical trade associations urged the Biden administration to implement pragmatic BABA rules. In the letter sent to the Senior Advisor and Infrastructure Coordinator at the White House, the associations highlighted that “[t]he inability to deploy resources and technologies due to BABA compliance barriers and complexities will result in fewer infrastructure, decarbonization, and electrification projects in the coming years.” [1] BABA is part of the Infrastr

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WIFCON: Government Contracts

AUGUST 16, 2023

Kelsey M. Hayes, Hillary J.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

As Christmas travel kicked into high gear last Dec. 22, the National Weather Service saw a surge in website traffic when it warned of a monster storm that would bring snow and frigid cold to much of the U.S. President Joe Biden boosted the number of visits to Weather.gov even further when he urged Americans to be careful and pay attention to local weather warnings, which included blizzard conditions, ice storms, heavy winds and potential flooding.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 14, 2023

In a polarized political environment, one area of bipartisan agreement in recent years has been renewed interest in leveraging government purchasing power to promote the domestic manufacturing base by expanding and strengthening federal “Buy America” requirements. For direct federal procurements subject to the Buy American Act (BAA), this has resulted in revised rules increasing the amount of U.S. content required to qualify a product as domestic, as well as heightened scrutiny of when waivers

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Import and Trade Remedies

AUGUST 18, 2023

The launch of the Canada Border Services Agency ( CBSA ) Assessment and Revenue Management ( CARM ) project has officially been pushed back from October 2023 to May 2024. The regulatory amendments relating to electronic communication and payment, the provision of financial security electronically, and billing cycles that are necessary to support the launch and use of CARM are still on schedule and are planned to come into force in May 2024.

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Government Contracts Navigator

AUGUST 17, 2023

Anthony Rapa and Patrick F. Collins ● On July 19, 2023, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a bill to ease trade restrictions among parties to the AUKUS agreement—a trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. House Republicans separately have proposed granting the … Continue reading "Proposed Bill Would Amend the Arms Export Control Act and Establish AUKUS Advisor and Task

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 16, 2023

Proposed U.S. Outbound Investment Regulations The Outbound Investment Program will be implemented through regulations issued by Treasury that will require notification for, or will otherwise prohibit U.S. persons from undertaking, certain transactions involving “covered national security products or technologies” and entities connected to a “country of concern.

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