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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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. How is BPA pricing, typically volume-based pricing, considered in a price comparison evaluation?

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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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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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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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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. Two different supply chain supply regimes essentially govern supply acquisition: The Buy American Act (BAA) and the Trade Agreements Act (TAA).

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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 & 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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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 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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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%. However, this law does not actually prohibit the acquisition of non-U.S.

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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. Two different supply chain supply regimes essentially govern supply acquisition: The Buy American Act (BAA) and the Trade Agreements Act (TAA).

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Supply Chain Price Telecommunication Purchasing 45

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,

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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. There are several things to note here. Second, the request must be in writing.

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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

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. Boatner said under the new policy, software will no longer make the transition to sustainment.

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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. Stephen Bacon So REV actually had two categories of allegations. By the time T4NG two comes out?

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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 We rescored and revalidated the bids that we got last fall,” he said.

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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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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

This index serves as a robust measure, evaluating the precision and adaptability of these clauses across various critical dimensions. Countries should also use specific thresholds for economic contractions to guide escape clause activation, ensuring impartial evaluations by engaging independent fiscal institutions.

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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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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. This involves documenting the evaluation of potential alternative supplies and explaining why they could not satisfy the requirements.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

MVCR functionality included basic Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contracting, such as firm-fixed price (FFP) contracts, purchase orders, task or delivery orders, and indefinite delivery vehicles under the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) and using the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP) for making purchases of supplies or services.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Also, in moves that were likely aimed to increase participation, or at least interest among potential mentors, the DoD is proposing a reduction of the dollar threshold associated with mentor eligibility, and increasing the length of a mentor protégé agreement. Also, a DoD Mentor-Protégé Agreement would now last three years, rather than two.

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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). These proposed rules represent continued affirmation to DOD’s dedication to rolling out CMMC soon. The CMMC 2.0

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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. For instance, an applicant’s net worth must not exceed $850,000.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

The SFSC noted that in its set-aside action, Venezuela presented its own version of the facts and substituted its evaluation of the evidence for that of the tribunal. This criticism, even if it were true, would not reach the high threshold for a violation of public policy, in any event (para.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The type of contract will determine the threshold since different thresholds exist for specific types of contracts. then the organisation will evaluate the bids and award the contracts to the given businesses. A contract that has a value of fewer than 106,000 pounds is considered below OJEU and does not need to be advertised.

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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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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 4, 2024

On March 6, 2024, the Federal Circuit vacated the CBCA decision on the threshold jurisdictional issue. 5] Small Business Participation Evaluation Factor A solicitation with a small business participation evaluation factor required large business offerors to provide copies of “enforceable” small business teaming agreements with the offer.

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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. 42] Evaluation at the job class level reduces the risk that the DCAA will challenge the compensation paid to individual outliers.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In any case, GAO recommends further training of contracting officers on evaluating large business compliance efforts. million for construction contracts). It is worth noting, however, that FAR 19.705-7 provides examples of indicators of good faith (or lack thereof) for contracting officers to look out for.

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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.

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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 debriefing allows the contractor to collect information about the procurement and award decision.

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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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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 6, 2024, the Federal Circuit vacated the CBCA decision on the threshold jurisdictional issue. 5] Small Business Participation Evaluation Factor A solicitation with a small business participation evaluation factor required large business offerors to provide copies of “enforceable” small business teaming agreements with the offer.

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