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DoD is Making its List, and Checking it Twice: DoD Updates 1260H Chinese Military Companies List

Government Contracts Legal Forum

Section 805’s Entity Prohibition becomes effective on June 30, 2026, and its Goods and Services Prohibition becomes effective on June 30, 2027. The prohibitions do not extend to purchases of goods, services, or technology that connect goods or services to third party services (e.g.,

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Top 10 Foundational Steps To Building A Strong Procurement Strategy

The Procurement School

Author: Liz Busch Do you feel that your organization may not be strategically procuring the goods, services and construction it needs? Look for trends, where the organization is buying similar commodities through independent solicitations or direct awards and entering discrete contracts and purchase orders for each.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs. This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies.

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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis.

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The Key Pillars of Third-Party Risk Management

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The results were segmented to isolate perspectives for both manufacturing and services-based organizations, here we’ll focus on the later. . TPRM is the process of identifying, analyzing and mitigating risks related to third parties–including suppliers, partners, contracts, service providers, etc).

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Direct Awards of PPE Contracts - What Lessons Can Be Learnt?

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Importantly for universities, there is an additional ground under Regulation 32(5) where products are manufactured for research, experimentation, study or development purposes only and not for commercialisation. A version of this article originally appeared in the London Universities Purchasing Consortium Linked Magazine Spring 2021.

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The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Government Contracts Legal Forum

The prohibitions do not extend to purchases of goods, services, or technology that connect goods or services to third party services (e.g., The Act also requires agencies to account for any existing inventory of unmanned aircraft manufactured or assembled by covered foreign entities.