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Government Contracts Cost and Pricing: The Truth in Negotiations Act, or Whatever the Kids Are Calling It These Days (Part 3)

Government Contracts & Investigations

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government Contractors. We just completed two articles on the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA) [1] and, before that, two articles on Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audits.

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HHS Scores Early Win In Boehringer's Medicare Pricing Suit

Government Contracts

Department of Health and Human Services in Boehringer Ingelheim's challenge to a new Medicare drug price negotiation program, rejecting the pharmaceutical company's claim that the program is unconstitutional. A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday sided with the U.S.

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Season 11: Episode 10: FAR Facts

Public Contracting Institute

Special focus on contract pricing). price negotiations and procedures should be used by contracting officers to determine the price reasonableness of modifications offered under a sealed bid contract. In our next session, we will cover FAR Part 15.4 FAR 15.400.

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HHS Seeks Early Win Defending Medicare Drug Price Program

Government Contracts

Boehringer Ingelheim and other drugmakers are free to take their business elsewhere if they object to the new Medicare price negotiation program, the federal government has said, urging a judge to reject the company's claims of constitutional violations.

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AstraZeneca Criticizes HHS For Bid To Skirt Drug Price Suit

Government Contracts

AstraZeneca has chided the federal government for seeking a quick win against the drugmaker's challenge to the Medicare drug price negotiation program in a recent brief, arguing that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services mistakenly believes it has "absolute authority to unilaterally dictate prices."

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Boehringer Appeals HHS Win In Medicare Drug Price Suit

Government Contracts

notified a Connecticut federal court Friday that it will appeal its loss in a lawsuit challenging a new Medicare drug price negotiation program on the grounds that it unlawfully compels the pharmaceutical giant to declare prices "fair," takes its property and imposes an excessive fine. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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HHS Drug Pricing Program Flouts Constitution, Boehringer Says

Government Contracts

An "unprecedented" new Medicare price negotiation program deprives drugmakers of their constitutional rights and forces them to make declarations on issues of public concern that reflect poorly on them, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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