The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Organizational procurement policies often establish thresholds for the application of RFQs, RFPs, REOIs, and IFBs, defining their use within specific procurement methods or strategies. Most organizational procurement policies define thresholds that dictate when a particular method should be used.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 21, 2024

Unpacking the Black Box of Price Analysis Over the last several years, GSA has been using a series of data management tools to support the price evaluation of products under the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. The next logical step is to provide industry partners with direct access to the algorithm and pricing database.

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FedScoop

JUNE 24, 2024

The agency is also recommending that the federal government create evaluation standards for LLMs “consisting of questions or lines of questioning and thresholds for unacceptably dangerous responses to improve the models.” It was not immediately clear from the report what this recommendation would entail.

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Public Contracting Institute

AUGUST 19, 2024

Does this policy establish that an evaluation cannot be performed on both the basic contract and each established order alternately during the contract term? basic contract or order) to complete an evaluation, that same vehicle must always be used for each performance period of the contract term or until contract completion.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

million for construction contracts). While the specific goal will vary with each contract (or in some cases may be on a company-wide basis), it is rare for a contracting officer to find a large business hasn’t met the given goal. Let’s take a deeper look at these findings. This report has proven to be quite eye-opening. It was as low as 35.9%

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

The CASB also published a paper discussing six possible approaches and the criteria it will use to evaluate those approaches, but welcomed the public to identify alternatives for the CASB to consider. Comments are due no later than August 19, 2024. The full text of the notice is available here.

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Federal News Network

JULY 12, 2024

The BAA, however, is a price evaluation preference, which means if the price of a Chinese product is low enough, the federal government will buy that product. The pandemic and its aftermath created a greater awareness of the fragility of global supply chains, and the federal government’s overreliance on adversaries in the supply chain.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

After receiving quotations, the contracting officer added salient characteristics to the technical evaluation form to be considered during evaluations that were not stated in the solicitation. For the awardee’s first prior experience example, the TET report did not analyze or evaluate the size of the project.

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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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Government Contracts & Investigations

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Two categories of successful protest arguments discussed in our previous blog are Improper Past Performance Evaluations and Flawed Best Value Analyses. Another category of successful protest challenges are those where there is an improper technical evaluation. As such, the GAO sustained this protest ground. In RELX, Inc. ,

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 19, 2024

Price Preference For civilian agencies , if the contractor with the lowest priced domestic end product is a large business, then the agency will add a price evaluation penalty to the offeror with the lowest priced foreign end product of 20%. We have talked about the Act before, but now, let’s take a deeper dive into it.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 26, 2024

The BAA provides a price evaluation preference, favoring domestic producers over foreign offers in a covered procurement. Generally, on a small business set-aside for supplies above the simplified acquisition threshold, the offeror must provide the product of a small business, made in the United States.

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Federal News Network

MAY 14, 2024

Margaret Boatner, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform “We are targeting a couple of really key processes like our test and evaluation processes, and importantly, our cybersecurity processes. When it comes to software development, the Army is going to stop worrying about the color of money.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Department of the Navy’s third attempt to modernize its contract writing system and overall electronic procurement system is on shaky ground. That hubris reared its ugly head most recently in June when the Navy retracted a technical assessment that found shortcomings in the Navy’s electronic procurement system (ePS) program.

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GovSpend

JUNE 18, 2024

GovSpend’s platform allows you to create lead lists based on agency location, agency types, spending thresholds, quantities, expiring contracts, upcoming renewals, and other criteria: Expiring Contracts and Subscriptions : Filter your search by issue date to find contracts that are due for rjenewal.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 12, 2024

The BAA, however, is a price evaluation preference, which means if the price of a Chinese product is low enough, the federal government will buy that product. The pandemic and its aftermath created a greater awareness of the fragility of global supply chains, and the federal government’s over reliance on adversaries in the supply chain.

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GovLoop

APRIL 26, 2023

That means evaluating the systems that are already in place and finding out who can access them. Red River helps agencies build security models that help them with threat-hunting, through adaptive thresholding, mathematical principles and ML, and dashboards highlighting potential malicious activity. “So, Where does it reside?

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the first instance, they challenged the VA’s evaluation of their own proposal saying instead of acceptable, we should have been rated either good or outstanding because of flaws in the way that the agency evaluated our proposal. Tell us what happened here. Who’s suing who? It’s common in a bid protest.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There seemed to be some recognition of the need for more State intervention through regulation, for more regulatory control of standard-setting, and for more attention to be paid to testing and evaluation in the procurement context. Public procurement is an opportunity to put into practice how we will evaluate and use technology.’

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The number of points needed to meet the threshold to win a spot on the contract went down. He said NITAAC likely will not use a self-scoring sheet, and it will be based on best value evaluation factors and not lowest-price, technically acceptable (LPTA). “We SAN DIEGO — The CIO-SP3 contract is in need of yet another extension.

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

DECEMBER 23, 2019

First, the simplified acquisition threshold currently sits at $150 thousand but there is a FAR proposal on the table that will increase that threshold to $250 thousand. A 19 page summary of its key provisions prepared by the Senate Armed-Services Committee can be read or downloaded here. There are several things to note here.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 30, 2024

Those key personnel actually have a huge effect on your on the government’s evaluation of the contractors proposal and on the ability to actually win the job and be able to perform the work. The government takes a long time to solicit, evaluate and award contracts. So it’s a nationwide ban on non-compete clauses.

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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. In such cases, the competitive bidding requirement is not applicable. There are several common scenarios where it is vital.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 20, 2024

It therefore encompasses the publicly known generative AI as well as evaluative or discriminative AI. However, it should once again be noted that the broad definition might also include future AI tools which therefore would have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

In the underlying investment treaty arbitration, Clorox sought compensation for the alleged expropriation and unfair treatment of its investment by Venezuela, through the enactment of price controls and currency exchange restrictions, and the nationalization of its assets.

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Select GCR

JUNE 4, 2024

To qualify for 8(a) certification, a business must meet SBA size standards, be majority-owned by economically and socially disadvantaged individuals, and demonstrate potential for success along with the owner’s good character and appropriate financial thresholds. Are you seeking 8a business development certification? Let’s break it down.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 6, 2024

So far, tribunals had to evaluate emergency measures (see the cases arising out of the Argentine financial crisis) or decisions presumably related to military objectives (see Deutsche Telekom v India, CC/Devas v India ) under security exceptions. Nevertheless, the tribunal swiftly cleared the way forward in its Procedural Order No.

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VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

The current procurement thresholds will remain in force. As from 1 January 2021 the guidance on evaluating social value and the recommendation, at least for central government and non-department public bodies, to include a weighting of 10% for social value award criteria also comes into force.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 29, 2024

Further, confirming the broad applicability of CMMC, DOD confirmed that these requirements will be applicable to contracts below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (which currently sits at $250,000). The Cyberside Chat will provide attendees with practical solutions to meet these evolving cybersecurity demands. Implementation Timing.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The type of contract will determine the threshold since different thresholds exist for specific types of contracts. When the government purchases goods and services from private businesses, the process is known as public procurement. Public procurement matters because it boosts growth, investment, and jobs.

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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’). For example, it is hard to imagine the imposition of an absolute requirement for a digital solution to be ‘digitally secure’.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 4, 2024

On March 6, 2024, the Federal Circuit vacated the CBCA decision on the threshold jurisdictional issue. Read on, though, before filing your claim. First, the background. Carahsoft”). In January 2022, the CBCA dismissed Avue’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction under the Contract Disputes Act (“CDA”). Stay tuned for round three.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

If passed, the legislation would ban contract solicitations from including these requirements, unless a written justification is provided by the contracting officer explaining why they should be included in a specific solicitation. The ACCESS Act aligns with the governmentwide push towards skill-based hiring. that was finalized in February 2024.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

28] DCAA Audit Guidance Chapter 6 of the DCAM, Incurred Cost Audit Procedures, includes detailed guidance for evaluating the reasonableness of compensation costs. 28] DCAA Audit Guidance Chapter 6 of the DCAM, Incurred Cost Audit Procedures, includes detailed guidance for evaluating the reasonableness of compensation costs.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

MARCH 22, 2022

Other than potential issues with how the contractor’s proposal was evaluated, the protester will typically have little insight into the decision-making process until the debriefing. The new final rule, published March 18, gives contractors additional information and time to work with in preparing their protest strategies.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to the Final Rule, FASC will evaluate sources and/or covered articles that may present supply chain risk, conduct reasonable diligence into the covered articles and/or sources identified, and will issue a recommendation for next steps. In August 2021, the FASC issued a Final Rule adding a new 41 C.F.R.

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluate how contracts are awarded, whether they are full and open, competed, not competed, or under the SAT threshold. However, one key factor that all successful companies share is their strategic utilization of data. It is an essential tool for ensuring the success of any company.

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