Redstone Government Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The CO authorizes the contracting officers representative (COR) to perform many important tasks to assist the CO in administrating the contract during performance.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 19, 2024

Also, the BAA doesn’t apply if the agency determines the product really isn’t available in substantial quantities in the United States. A list of these items is at FAR 25.104.

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 26, 2024

In recent decades, the Hanford Site has become the focus of the nation’s largest environmental cleanup, including remediation and treatment of large quantities of radioactive and hazardous waste. The Hanford Nuclear Site produced plutonium for nuclear weapons starting in the 1940s.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 19, 2024

Streamsondes made by weather forecast and tech company Skyfora, for example, are a smaller parachute-less version of a dropsonde that stay in the air longer and get deployed in larger quantities, allowing NOAA to exponentially increase data collection. Surface-level data is also important because that’s where the storms get their fuel.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

The sheer quantity of data that’s being produced … has forced a way of collecting and storing and labeling and managing that data, which has then led to a drive to use the data, which has driven some new tools,” she explained. And with an unthinkable amount of data in the world, errors are inevitable with outdated IT.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 17, 2024

How domestic courts approach challenges to arbitration awards is of increasing importance as foreign parties often decide to seat an arbitration in a jurisdiction that they believe will provide the greatest stability to governing the arbitration process. of the GSA “Diversion of Gas and Take or Pay” for Monthly Take-or-Pay Quantity of gas.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It is important, however, also to consider that contract prices on an indefinite quantity indefinite delivery contract, such as the MAS, are based on unknown requirements and must cover every possible contingency, e.g. , quantity, quality, delivery, complexity, scale, location, security clearance level, etc.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

McGinty notes however, that local governments may buy less regularly and in smaller quantities than for-profit landscaping businesses. It’s important to identify the types of projects you will be completing. The company has more than 600 locations throughout the U.S.

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SmallGovCon

JULY 2, 2024

A recent General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report is a reminder to federal contractors about the importance of being accurate in representing small business status. We’ve written before about some of the confusion contractors may have regarding self-reporting in SAM.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Yet it underlines the importance of engaging the public, patient organisations, and healthcare professionals in open discussions about the cloud and its applications in health. It’s important to explain the advantages, the value to the patient, the solutions and the risks. Transparency in the adoption of cloud is just so crucial.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The supposed scheme involved importing high quantities of goods, such as textiles, shoes and small electronic items from China to EU countries using fake invoices. Furthermore, an exemption associated with an EU importation procedure called “Customs Procedure 42” was reportedly abused.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JANUARY 8, 2024

On 5 January 2024, the Ministry of Commerce of China (“MOFCOM”) initiated an antidumping investigation of brandy imported from the European Union (“EU”). During the registration, the applicants are required to report the quantities and values of the subject exports.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Government Accountability Office that arose from indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract awards and offer important reminders about the fundamentals of procurement law. In this month's bid protest roundup, Michaela Thornton at MoFo examines three recent protests resolved in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Importance of Accuracy and Clarity The accuracy and clarity of bidding documents are crucial. For works, it also includes the bill of quantities and supplementary information describing the works. Contract Terms and Conditions : They communicate the terms and conditions of the contract to be entered into.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 21, 2023

When submitting an offer, it is important to make sure that all the requirements of the solicitation are met. This is essentially Federal Government Contracting 101 and applies to any type of solicitation. In RELX, Inc., 2023 CPD ¶ 262 (Comp.

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GovSpend

MARCH 18, 2024

Paige emphasized the importance of assessing a vendor’s credibility and reliability using historical data, including which government agencies they’ve worked with and whether they deliver goods and services on time. Verifying Vendors for Credibility and Reliability: The first topic covered was the crucial process of vendor verification.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It is important, however, also to consider that contract prices on an indefinite quantity indefinite delivery contract, such as the MAS, are based on unknown requirements and must cover every possible contingency, e.g. , quantity, quality, delivery, complexity, scale, location, security clearance level, etc.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lawmakers are currently undertaking the arduous process of reconciling these bills, while jockeying to include topics of importance in the final legislation. The NDAA is a “must pass” set of policy programs and discretionary authorizations to fund Department of Defense (“DoD”) operations.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This blog has frequently stressed the importance of responding to any solicitation by the due date/time, fully, and in complete accord with the solicitation. Takeaway – Red Team Review is Important Takeaway.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

OCTOBER 5, 2020

2) Unfinished, sub-standard delivery or lower than contracted quantity leading to the need for further public expenditure or lost revenue. 2) Unfinished, sub-standard delivery or lower than contracted quantity leading to the need for further public expenditure or lost revenue.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 11, 2024

Louis University ‘s (SLU) Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research (SCAER) required vast quantities of anonymized cell phone data in order to study the impacts of large-scale social problems like homelessness and access to healthcare. The research team at St. Finding a reliable data supplier was relatively simple.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But we think this protest raises some important questions. It “implemented this regulation to prevent an agency from dividing an IDIQ contract into separate smaller contract actions to make award to a single firm without competition.” After all, how can you divide a requirement after the fact?

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hearings are always very important. Small business hurt by court decision The General Services Administration used the 876 authority for its ASTRO contract for services to support the operations, maintenance, readiness, research, development, systems integration and support for manned, unmanned and optionally manned platforms and robotics.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 11, 2023

As such, it’s important to act quickly when faced with poor supplier performance, putting adequate processes in place to resolve the issue promptly and efficiently. Understand your business needs Before anything else, it’s important to have a clear understanding of your business needs, as this should inform the approach you take.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I made all the decisions about the chart and back catalogue (non chart) singles range I stocked and the pre-order quantities of new release singles. ​ My job was to ensure I had enough stock to fulfil demand and beat my sales targets. T rends came and went fast! This could be a very stressful activity.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Nevertheless, proficient cost management is of utmost importance. These include Indefinite Delivery and Quantity Contracts (IDIQ) and Incentive Contracts, each with its applications and nuances. Why is compliance important in government contracting? What are IDIQ contracts?

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Public Contracting Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This blog has frequently stressed the importance of responding to any solicitation by the due date/time, fully, and in complete accord with the solicitation. The solicitation stated that offerors who failed to provide Attachment 9 would result in their proposal being deemed noncompliant with the solicitation, and not considered for award.

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Federal News Network

JULY 11, 2024

PEO-C3T expects to issue a final RFP for this multiple award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract in early 2025 and make awards in early 2026. Keith Jordan is the product manager for Tactical Cyber and NetOps, in the Army’s Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical (PEO-C3T).

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For those unfamiliar with Seaport-NxG, it is both a set of Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) MACs and the platform used by the Navy to solicit, award, and administer task orders under those IDIQ MACs. A very interesting—and important—distinction to keep in your back pocket. So, what have we learned?

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Import and Trade Remedies

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

114-125 ) to increase the de minimis threshold for imports into the United States from $200 to $800, far exceeding similar thresholds in other countries globally. 10.151), imports that qualify for Section 321 treatment are entered under informal entry procedures, which do not require a U.S. e-commerce imports in fiscal year 2022.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Terms and conditions, among them, quality, quantity, delivery, warranty, capability, complexity and place of performance, factor into pricing decisions. Competition and industrial base are important to the vitality of the procurement system. It is also a regulatory requirement. See FAR 15.405, 15.403-3 and 15.402.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

The three deficiencies were: GSA said ePS-NDVSB didn’t provide the ability to have a minimum order quantity; didn’t demonstrate a data dashboard; and didn’t have a marketplace unique for government use. We are a small business,” he said. “On This is the second protest GSA has to contend with around the CPI solicitation.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 15, 2024

Such criteria include an assessment of the “scale and severity of the suspected forced labour” as well as the “quantity or volume or products placed or made available on the Union market.” by national Customs authorities). Please see our previous blog posts here and here.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

Principle is of another small business unless those products are not available in sufficient quantities. And so, I think it really comes back to the importance of contractors that may see, and again, shouldn’t be a burden on the contractor to do it, but to be thinking about how they can make their case build that network of advocates.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We just didn’t have our own indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) vehicles with the MITREs, LMIs or RANDs of the world. Along with FFRDCs, Derrios remains optimistic that Congress will grant State another important acquisition tool: The authority to use other transaction agreements (OTAs).

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Public Contracting Institute

JULY 14, 2024

To truly grasp the importance of CAS 407, it’s essential to have a solid foundation in government contracting principles. It’s important to understand how it interacts with other Cost Accounting Standards to ensure comprehensive compliance.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How important is it really? The contract implementation phase is very important because it is where the results of the procurement process are obtained and the requesting entity is in a position to finally receive the expected benefits of their procurement request.

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