Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 30, 2024

The Final Rule also makes many changes to 2 CFR Parts 180 and 200, including, but not limited to, increasing the threshold for audits, clarifying the requirements for fixed amount awards, and implementing a mandatory disclosure rule.

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GovLoop

APRIL 26, 2023

Red River helps agencies with many facets of technology integration that pertain to data, such as cloud migration, data center development, data mapping and infrastructure. That means evaluating the systems that are already in place and finding out who can access them.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

The contracting authority plays a crucial role in public sector tendering processes by setting contract thresholds and criteria for bid evaluations. When evaluating tender search tools, these hidden costs need to be taken into account.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

First, AWS Config , a service that continually assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and relationships of your resources on AWS, on premises, and on other clouds, offers a conformance pack for NIST 800-53r5. AWS has several solutions that can help customers establish their alignment with NIST 800-53r5 controls.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrity All tender documents must have clear and dependable information free of bias. Without this integrity, the entire public procurement process would fall apart. The type of contract will determine the threshold since different thresholds exist for specific types of contracts. Restricted procedures have two stages.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

MARCH 22, 2022

Debriefings as a Tool for Bid Protests Bid protests are designed to protect the integrity of the procurement process and to allow disappointed bidders or offerors the opportunity to seek relief for an improper or flawed solicitation or contract award decision. Whether before the U.S.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Appreciate the Benefits SMEs are integral to the Canadian economy because they enhance the cycle of money in the financial equation. RFP simplification involves careful consideration of evaluation criteria and with desired outcomes identified. When SMEs do reach out, they should not hit a brick wall of defenses.

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Select GCR

MAY 7, 2024

This marketplace is organized around the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes, which classify small businesses for statistical purposes and are integral in federal contracting for procurement. Many small businesses have experienced growth after the federal government awarded them contracts.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

Integrating escape or exceptional event clauses has emerged as a vital mechanism amid these challenges. This index serves as a robust measure, evaluating the precision and adaptability of these clauses across various critical dimensions. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical role of flexibility in fiscal governance.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 8, 2024

Macroeconomic and fiscal policy is at the brink of a transformative shift due to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), which is poised to revolutionize fiscal governance and policy formulation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). A comprehensive strategy is essential to build the capacity necessary for successful AI adoption.

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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. It therefore encompasses the publicly known generative AI as well as evaluative or discriminative AI.

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ivalua

AUGUST 16, 2021

They are integral partners that require management to reduce supplier risk, improve supplier performance, and foster supplier collaboration across the entire supply chain and throughout the complete supplier lifecycle. . Evaluate and manage supplier performance. Supplier risk criteria, tolerance thresholds, and monitoring requirements.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Similar issues arise with the possibility to creatively structure remuneration under some of these contracts to keep them below regulatory thresholds (eg by ‘remunerating in data’). Such requirements could be seen as unjustified and/or disproportionate, leading to an infringement of EU procurement law.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some of the key aspects of the current strategy that have raised uncertainty among FAS’s industry partners: The current pool structure is inconsistent with commercial practice and delivering an integrated, holistic cloud solution, as it will increase complexity, risk, and costs for customer agencies and MAS contractors.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The VA’s Office of Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) is responsible for oversight of the five contracts the Community Care Program uses to procure services. The only exceptions are for contracts solely for the purchase of Commercial Off-the-Shelf items or contracts under the $10,000 micro-purchase threshold. The CMMC 2.0

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This language would require suppliers to adhere to specified actions that are “consistent with the Framework” (although the bills do not specify what these actions will be) and provide “appropriate access to data, models, and parameters…to enable sufficient test and evaluation, verification, and validation.” Register now by clicking here.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In spite of such major policy developments, we still lack the specific and rigorous evidence on the impact of transparency interventions and which types of transparency matter for which actors to support desirable societal outcomes such as high quality public services, procedural justice or public sector integrity (Bauhr et al, 2019).

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

DECEMBER 27, 2023

These requirements are expected to be included in all DoD solicitations valued above the micro-purchase threshold, except for procurements that are exclusively for commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. A compliance strategy may evaluate what technical gaps and legal risks exist and how they will be addressed.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The FIT Act would authorize agencies to make advanced payments for cloud computing services, increase the simplified acquisition threshold from $250,000 to $500,000 and the micro-purchase threshold from $10,000 to $25,000, and require Federal procurement officers to take cross-functional training. The CMMC 2.0

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 11, 2024

These requirements are expected to be included in all DoD solicitations valued above the micro-purchase threshold, except for procurements that are exclusively for commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items. A compliance strategy may evaluate what technical gaps and legal risks exist and how they will be addressed.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

This provision of the NDAA seems targeted at bridging the communication gap between the agencies by requiring that the parties to a proposed transaction over the HSR threshold provide a copy of their HSR filing directly to DoD.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Federal contractors must maintain written affirmative action plans, which are subject to evaluation by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Thus, understanding and adhering to these cybersecurity requirements is critical for maintaining the integrity of government contracts and protecting sensitive information.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For procurements exceeding specified thresholds, justification must document the effort to find alternative suppliers, listing unique technical requirements and companies contacted. Market Research and Analysis When it comes to identifying a legitimate sole source situation, conducting a market survey is an integral part of the process.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

In addition, he will provide updates on the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Authority to Operate (ATO) processes as part of the integration of technology in delivering best value healthcare. Entities that meet certain threshold criteria – regardless of size – are covered by the rule.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

House of Representatives Committee on Government Operations (now Oversight and Reform), chaired by Jack Brooks (D-TX), where he supported the committee on IT oversight and legislative initiatives, such as the Procurement Integrity Act. I will miss Tom greatly and wish him the very best in his retirement.”

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

Currently, SBA’s regulations on joint ventures provide that a procuring activity may not require a protégé firm to individually meet the same evaluation or responsibility criteria as that required of other offerors generally. Application of HUBZone Price Evaluation Preference (PEP). United States , 165 Fed. 745 (2023).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 4, 2024

Covered follow-on contracts include most contracts governed by the Service Contract Act (SCA) that exceed the Simplified Acquisition Threshold, currently set at $250,000. A compliance strategy may evaluate what technical gaps and legal risks exist and how they will be addressed.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PAP 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing, is one such example. This PAP fundamentally alters the MAS negotiation process, establishing evaluation standards, requirements, and procedures not found in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) or the General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR).

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

TIGTA evaluates IRS paper form scanning pilots - Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration) The Defense Department has until October 2025 to modernize its acquisition and requirements processes.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

However, the FOMC evaluates the 2% goal against the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (“PCE”) (addressed below). Last, if reducing deficit spending is integral to combating inflation, why not just raise taxes? percent before seasonal adjustment.” [2] 4] Below shows how the 6.0% January 2023 +6.4% December 2022 +6.5%

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

A privacy threshold analysis for automated detection algorithms from 2022 but only made public on the Department of Homeland Securitys website earlier this month reveals some details about the governments aspirations for the technology. Other privacy threshold analyses have also been published in DHS in recent weeks.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A new case study we developed together with Transparency International Ukraine (TI Ukraine) examines how Prozorro’s data analytics tools have become an integral part of the work of more than 30,000 people across government, monitoring institutions, the private sector and civil society, even as the country grapples with Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As such, CMS proposes adding a facility-specialty type called “Outpatient Behavioral Health” to (1) the list of facility-specialty types that are evaluated for network adequacy standards and (2) to the published time and distance standards. Accordingly, CMS has taken measures to curb enrollment in D-SNP look-alike plans.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

FAR & Beyond: Thoughts on “What is Fair and Reasonable? Federal Acquisition Policy and Procedure (PAP) 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing , sets forth “comprehensive guidance regarding the evaluation of pricing throughout the life of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program contract.”

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2025

The protests relate to GSAs evaluation of the proposals, including thepast experience scoring.GSA made 102 Polaris awards in the general small business pool based on highest technical ratings and fair and reasonable pricing. Lastly the rule would require acquisition planners to consider on-ramps for a long-term multiple award contract.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 24, 2025

This measure also helped parties better evaluate arbitrators’ credentials and track records. Peru: Fostering Transparency and Legal Certainty On the legislative front, the Legislative Decree No. Moreover, Chile continued to innovate in specialized areas of arbitration.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As GSA’s Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) and price evaluation tools expand across the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program, tracking key terms and conditions and their impact on price will be vital to what is “fair and reasonable.” million or $7 million for orders with a manufacturing NAICS code). will remain reserved for SDVOSBs.

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