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Whose Site Is It Anyway: Trade Groups Challenge DOL’s Prevailing Wage Calculation and Expanded Definition of the Site of Work Under the Davis-Bacon Act

Inside Government Contracts

Changes to Prevailing Wage Rate Calculations Previously, DOL set a rate as the “prevailing wage” within a county when a threshold of 50 percent or more of applicable workers voluntarily reported that they were paid that rate. Otherwise, DOL would determine the prevailing wage by employing a “weighted average.”

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5 New Public Works Bills Passed by Washington Legislature

Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

In order to bring Washington law in compliance with federal small works bonding requirements, Senate Bill 5734 , which passed both the House and Senate unanimously, addresses the following: Changes Project Amount: Increases the $35,000 threshold to $150,000.

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Will U.S. Lawmakers Find Common Ground to Enact De Minimis Reform in 2024?

Import and Trade Remedies

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.

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Trade Agreements and Country of Origin: What You Need to Know

Public Contracting Institute

These rules are important because they affect things like taxes and which products can be used in government projects. It’s also important for anyone interested in how international trade works. This is important because it helps businesses know what to expect when they trade with other countries. It ensures that the U.S.

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Deploying AWS CloudWatch canaries at scale to elevate monitoring, observability and reliability

AWS Public Sector

Alerting and notifications: CloudWatch canaries can initiate alerts and notifications based on predefined thresholds, enabling teams to quickly respond to issues and minimize downtime. let i++ ; Next is one of the most important aspects of the build: the hashing logic and deployment packaging.

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Bid Protest Hub – January 2024

Government Contracts & Investigations

In SierTeK-Peerless JV LLC, the GAO sustained a protest challenging the award of a task order by the Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) for support services to maintain TSA’s property management program. [2] Thus, the GAO sustained the protest. This decision is consistent with other decisions we have analyzed in previous articles.

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Is the City of Lights Losing Its Allure? Highlights from the Paris Arbitration Breakfast Conference on the Seat of Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Keynote: “Arbitration: Here, There and Everywhere” Claudia Salomon’s keynote address, titled “Arbitration: Here, There and Everywhere”, transported attendees back a century, unraveling the history of how Paris was chosen as the headquarters for the ICC, and subsequently its International Court of Arbitration. Closing off, Ms.

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