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government is going to be your contracting party and they’ll basically operate as a bit of a middleman between you, the contractor and that foreign government. procurementcontract. The first is through or military sales transactions where the U.S. So that’s going to look much more like a traditional U.S.
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In order to mitigate their legal risk, some customers have put in place templates and standard clauses in a repository allowed by our product in order to standardize the contracts.
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4 The Court rejected the government’s contention that because OTs are not procurementcontracts subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”), they are necessarily removed from the Court’s bid protest jurisdiction. Examining the text and legislative history of the OT statutes at issue (i.e.,
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