SmallGovCon

JANUARY 20, 2025

the FAR must update definitions related to specific types of organizational conflicts of interest, including unequal access to information, impaired objectivity, and biased ground rules. As well as add more procedures to require contractors to disclose information relevant to potential organizational conflicts of interest.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 21, 2024

For the former, the information below can serve as a refresher on the basics of economic disadvantage–but also, a source for SBA’s most recent economic disadvantage thresholds (as of 2024, as these are updated periodically for inflation ). What are SBA’s current economic disadvantage thresholds ?

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VWV

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Transaprency Introduction of a Central Digital Platform for publishing notices, supplier registration and finding information. Contract modifications A contract change notice will be required for most above threshold modifications. To download this information as a PDF, click here.

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Under New Jersey law, any business, its executives, or representatives have a very low threshold for providing and reporting gifts, or what the law defines as “benefit passing,” and public disclosure is required.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Strengthening Digital Accessibility and the Management of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Class Deviation—Implementation of the United States Trade Representative Trade Agreements Thresholds Civilian Agency Acquisition Council (CAAC) Consultation to Issue a Class Deviation from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Regarding New Trade Agreements (..)

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FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

A month later, Eric Hysen, the department’s chief information officer and chief AI officer, told FedScoop that there’s been “good interest” in using generative AI within the agency. Citizenship and Immigration Services staff. Last November, the agency released a memo meant to guide the agency’s use of the technology.

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SmallGovCon

APRIL 15, 2024

For more information on the VA’s SDVOSB Rule of Two, visit our post here. The rule in FAR 19.502-2(b) , which pertains to acquisitions above the simplified acquisition threshold, is worded a little differently. The Department of Veterans Affairs has its own Rule of Two for service-disabled veteran owned businesses.

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Inside Government Contracts

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Moreover, the final rule imposes the DBA by operation of law on federal construction contracts that would otherwise be covered, but that nevertheless do not include the requisite FAR clauses and wage determinations used to inform contractors of the DBA’s requirements. Moreover, the DBA also applies to subcontractors.

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Redstone Government Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

If the purchase exceeds the micro-purchase threshold, yes $10,000 , you must document the justification as sole source. If the price is not fair and reasonable, it is your job to inform the government. What happens when you receive only one bid or there is only one source that can perform the effort?

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FedScoop

JUNE 24, 2024

government, the private sector, and academia to make sure that we understand how we try to approach these highly sensitive, high-risk areas of information.” The fact that AI work is spread across agencies can also create different information-sharing and regulatory hurdles.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A recent public records request filed by FedScoop saw much of the information redacted, including a section on “scores” that could possibly reference the efficacy of the algorithms. Due to the significant volume of social media posts, only posts that score above a designated threshold are forwarded to the system for review.”

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The FAR rule represents yet another step by the Government to mitigate the security risks that the Government perceives with the use of information technology that may be produced or provided by countries considered to be foreign adversaries. This applies when the covered article or the source is subject to an applicable FASCSA order.

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Public Contracting Institute

AUGUST 19, 2024

provides the policies for federal agencies to establish, record, and maintain contractor past performance information. The Manual also “provides working-level procedures for entering, updating, revising, and viewing information in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) Automated Information System (AIS)”.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 24, 2025

The FIT Procurement Act would increase the simplified acquisition threshold from $200,000 to $500,000 and raise the micro-purchase threshold from $10,000 to $25,000. AI National Security Memo Aims to Avoid U.S.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In its final rule, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council made disclosing certain information permanently protected. Contractors and subcontractors must inform their employees about these whistleblower protections. Contractor employees will have enhanced whistleblower protections starting Nov.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As for the 2017 transposition I do not have much to say, but I did say a lot about what was happening below-thresholds. Predictably, the rules were 'simplified' further particularly for below threshold contracts with compliance requirements, timescales and the rights associated to them slashed. But fashionably late it was nonetheless.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Identify contracting opportunities using platforms like SAM.gov and USASpending.gov, while remaining informed about procurement trends and requirements. Most government contracts require a competitive solicitation process, especially for purchases exceeding certain thresholds, typically ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.

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Telles.eu

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, the Communication recognises that 80% of contracts are below-thresholds and as such no real procurement data is captured about them beyond the approach taken by individual member States in using TED for the notices or doing so via national portals. Wouldn't it be great if all that data was captured in a single place?

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Federal News Network

JUNE 24, 2024

Underlying these tools is a price analysis algorithm that assesses or compares several pricing data points to generate a “market threshold” that can then be used to determine whether a proposed price is fair and reasonable based on the market information available to GSA.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The threshold challenge here is to ensure that there is sufficient information in the marketplace to make this kind of requirement workable.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is fair to say I did get some pushback for my view and how that implied an unreasonably high threshold of competence and behaviour by decision makers in the run up to a serious medical emergency. Fast forward to late 2023 and the Covid inquiry is finally upon us and providing critical information about the run up to first lockdown.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

CIO-SP4 , which stands for Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4, is the fourth iteration of a government-wide IT services and product contract. The only place you can go is GAO once you meet certain dollar thresholds.” The surge in cases filed comes after at least four years of declines.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Derrios and other senior leaders like Kelly Fletcher, State’s chief information officer, also sit on the council. The threshold [for review] is $250 million and over. At that dollar threshold, we’re expecting program offices to have a more formalized plan and approach for program management. The BRC is a big one for us.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The impact level is based on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-60r1 , which outlines how to map information and information systems to various security categories. AWS also provides documentation within AWS Artifact , a central resource for compliance-related information available in the AWS Management Console.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

In its internal objective assessment of the technical approach for ePS, the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) detailed a host of questions and potential problems about the project. The Electronic Procurement System (ePS) Technical Assessment was developed using partial and outdated information. billion in contracts on.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 1, 2024

GSA Chief Information Officer David Shive also says nobody at the agency intentionally misled the contracting officer into approving the purchases. But “the market research provided to the contracting officer did not include information on this alternative,” the report states. But Erickson Jr.

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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. 7101 et seq., including requirements for certifications and a compliance plan consistent with the law.

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VWV

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Universities have successfully persuaded the Cabinet Office to introduce a minimum contract value threshold of £2 million in relation to some of the transparency requirements to reduce the administrative burden on universities, particularly regarding the publication of information.

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SmallGovCon

MARCH 28, 2024

Note: the Nonmanufacturer Rule may be applied instead to contracts for supplies from a nonmanufacturer, but such is not relevant here; so, check out this other Back to Basics blog on it if you would like more information. under FAR 2.101 ), there are limitations on how much the prime can subcontract out to whom.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

APRIL 17, 2017

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. This website may be used to obtain up to date information about the bills.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

MARCH 12, 2024

Notably, DAG Monaco made clear that foreign and domestic corruption and financial crimes are particular focus areas, and highlighted that DOJ is especially interested in receiving information about: Criminal abuses of the U.S.

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The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

This is to facilitate the required level of fairness and transparency that includes: trade agreements and, freedom of information legislation. The thresholds at which procuring entities are required to adhere to the CETA requirements are necessarily quite high and are subject to currency conversion and indexing rates.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In our region and within multilateral developing banks, it is a common practice to rely exclusively on monetary thresholds to decide on selection methods, which can be problematic as it is not the optimal solution for all cases. For LAC countries, digital technologies can be an important ally in achieving this balance.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We have previously found that some contracting officers did not ensure that contractors submitted required ISRs and SSRs, and that some contracting officers accepted subcontracting report submissions with erroneous information on subcontracting goals. million for construction contracts). This problem it laid at the feet of the agencies.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“Passing the $2 billion threshold in whistleblower awards is a major milestone for the Dodd-Frank whistleblower programs and a testament to how they have revolutionized the enforcement of white-collar crime,” said whistleblower attorney Stephen M. .” ” The SEC Whistleblower Program has awarded more than $1.8

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 21, 2024

Underlying these tools is a price analysis algorithm that assesses or compares several pricing data points to generate a “market threshold” that can then be used to determine whether a proposed price is fair and reasonable based on the market information available to GSA.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The FAR council said that in the proposed rule, because it touches anybody that has a contract, that includes some information and communication technology, which is a hugely broad definition of things. I can think of very few examples of contractors that really would have nothing to do with information technology. Tom Temin Right.

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