ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Business consulting company Guidehouse has announced that it will serve as master servicer and custodian under the first-ever multiparty securitization of the unguaranteed portion of Small Business Administration 7(a) loans.

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Participation Consulting IT 103

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The STJ decision ruled not only on the possibility – and necessity – of a regulatory agency participating in arbitration proceedings between a concessionary and the relevant state entity but also on the limits of extending the effects of an arbitral award over a non-participating third party.

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SmallGovCon

AUGUST 6, 2024

The post Common Misconceptions: SBA’s Mentor-Protégé Program (Part II – Participation Rules & Limits) first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? Sign up for our free monthly newsletter , and follow us on LinkedIn , Twitter and Facebook.

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Participation Government Contracts Contract IT 72

Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In determining the exact percentage to award the whistleblower, the CFTC weighed the fact that there was significant law enforcement interest in whistleblower’s information because it concerned violations which were of great “danger to market participants.”

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Participation Quality Networking IT 75

FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Addressing underrepresentation in the IT workforce is the first step toward developing a robust pipeline of Native American IT professionals, according to Monday’s multipanel session at TribalNet 2024.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Streamlining regulations, reporting, and procurement processes will do more to attract new small entrants to participate in the Federal market. The post OMB Memo on Increasing Small Business Participation on Multiple-Award Contracts first appeared on Federal News Network.

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Participation Contract Price Procurement 59

Government Contract Insights

AUGUST 3, 2023

company participation in federally funded research and development activities. A new Biden administration Executive Order proposes to enforce more rigorously U.S. manufacturing requirements attendant to federally funded inventions.

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Participation Manufacturing 52

GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Defense Health Agency awarded ManTech‘s Advanced Systems subsidiary a $166 million contract to support the LogiCole medical supply chain management system. The contract is part of the General Services Administration Alliant 2 vehicle focused on software lifecycle services, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

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Participation Supply Chain Logistics Contract 69

Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Small Business Administration has begun outreach to current participants in its 8(a) Business Development Program regarding the impact of the U.S. With respect to the 8(a) annual review process, SBA advises that 8(a) Participants should continue to submit their annual review and continuing eligibility materials to SBA.

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Participation Bidding Contract Government Contracts 40

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 9, 2023

1] There are different restrictions that explain this low participation of women-led companies in the awarding of public procurement contracts. As a result, encouraging the participation of women-led SMEs in public procurement processes can help promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. 2) Definition of requirements.

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Public Procurement Participation Procurement Import 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Streamlining regulations, reporting, and procurement processes will do more to attract new small entrants to participate in the Federal market. Moreover, the very questions raised here are of a type that the regulatory notice and comment process, in part, is designed to address.

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Participation Contract Price Procurement 45

Discussions & Clarifications

AUGUST 9, 2023

As a result, discussed further below, both future and current 8(a) BD Program participants will need to. The Court enjoined the SBA from using the rebuttable presumption in administering SBA’s 8(a) BD Program.

Participation 40

Participation 40

PwC: Government & Public Sector

OCTOBER 17, 2022

50 of April 18, 2016 (“Italian Public Procurement Code”), the Decree defines limits and operating terms of “serious tax violations that have not been definitively sanctioned”, suitable to determine the exclusion of the economic operator from participation in public tenders. Implementing Article 80, paragraph 4 of the Legislative Decree no.

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Tender Public Procurement Finance Participation 52

ivalua

MAY 21, 2020

The post Removing Barriers To Small Business Participation In Government Markets appeared first on Ivalua.

Participation 52

Participation Government Government 52

GovCon & Trade

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The change requires all current 8(a) participants who established social disadvantage using the rebuttable presumption mechanism to complete a social disadvantage narrative to reestablish their social disadvantage. This announcement reflects the next step in SBA’s implementation of the Ultima decision.

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Participation 130

Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Attorneys’ Offices across the country have rolled out “Whistleblower Pilot Programs” offering the potential of non-prosecution agreements in exchange for voluntary self-disclosure of criminal conduct by participants in non-violent offenses. Attorney Matthew M. Graves when the USAO for the District of Columbia announced its program.

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Whistle-blowing Participation Consulting Networking 93

GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Shortly after, the SBA closed the portal for new 8(a) applicants and mandated that all current 8(a) participants submit a social disadvantage narrative proving their eligibility. The September 29 announcement is good news for potential participants previously waiting to apply for the program, however, Ultima Services Corp.,

IT 147

IT Participation Contract Government 147

Government Contracts Advisor

APRIL 21, 2016

Dentons’ Government Contracts practice congratulates the winners and participants of the 16th annual Dentons “Gilbert A. Cuneo” Government Contracts Moot […]

Participation 52

Participation Government Contracts Government Government 52

Government Contracts

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the solicitor general's request to participate in oral arguments in an AT&T subsidiary's challenge to the law's application. The Solicitor General's Office will defend private citizens' ability to sue for E-rate fraud on behalf of the government under the False Claims Act, after the U.S.

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Participation Government Government 97

Government Contracts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday concluded that a lab testing company owner charged with participating in a kickback scheme to defraud Medicare and a man who pled guilty to participating in a connected conspiracy could waive any conflicts that might arise from both using the same attorney.

Participation 52

Participation 52

WashngtonExec

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Nathaniel Fick, State Department’s ambassador-at-large for cyberspace and digital policy, and Brad Medairy, executive vice president and cyber security leader at Booz Allen Hamilton, participated in a panel at the Sept. 3 Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. Fick outlined his reflections [.]

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Participation 108

Holland & Knight: Government Contracts

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a proposed rule aimed at increasing small business participation in multiple award contracts (MACs) by expanding the application of the Rule of Two to multiple award task and delivery orders.

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Contract Participation 78

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This stakeholder only became aware of the information-sharing capability by conducting its own research and contacting CISA directly to become a participant.” That choice was due at least in part to the fact that the agency was working with inaccurate contract information for AIS participants, the watchdog noted.

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Participation Quality Data Evaluation 116

GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 23, 2023

The ruling has precipitated the issuance of guidance by the Small Business Administration (SBA), providing greater clarity to the current state of 8(a) eligibility and next steps for 8(a) participants. These notifications should help 8(a) participants determine the next steps.

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Participation Negotiation Quantity Contract 130

Public Procurement Intl

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Photo credit: South African Tourism Colloquium Participants South Africa’s National Research Foundatio n (NRF) (which coordinates with the nation’s research institutions) hosted a weeklong conference, September 3-6, 2024, to discuss South Africa’s Public Procurement Act , Act No. 28 of 2024.

Public Procurement 130

Public Procurement Procurement Negotiation Participation 130

Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman was barred Friday from hearing cases for at least another year due to her refusal to participate in an investigation into her health, with the appeals court's other judges deciding unanimously to extend a suspension that began last year.

Participation 98

Participation 98

FedScoop

JULY 3, 2024

The General Services Administration is inviting the public to participate in a challenge to reimagine federal websites with artificial intelligence and cloud tools. Additionally, the agency said there’s a pool of $10,000 in prize money for winning participants and teams. The event, scheduled for July 31 in Washington, D.C.,

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Participation Purchasing Procurement Data 120

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Organized with the support of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje (ALARB), this forum marked a significant departure from traditional conference formats, embracing an interactive, participant-driven approach that fostered open and informal conversations among attendees.

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Innovation Participation Influencing Negotiation 52

FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

On Wednesday, those platforms were freed during the agency’s inaugural AI hackathon , a three-city competition that saw public and private sector participants attempt to “hack” federal agency websites and build out solutions for prizes. If participants were blocked from a tool, the agency found a workaround. Whitman said.

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Data Participation Inventory Transparency 129

Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

According to the DOJ, “in 2014, Telefónica Venezolana participated in a government-sponsored currency auction in Venezuela that allowed it to exchange its Venezuelan bolivars for U.S. Telefónica Venezolana bribed Venezuelan government officials to participate in a government auction through which it exchanged Venezuelan bolivars for U.S.

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Telecommunication Corruption Supplier Price 87

SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We most frequently see them used for contracts made to participants in the 8(a) Small Business Development Program, but the other programs (WOSB, SDVOSB, and HUBZone) have the ability to make sole source awards as well. 8(a) Sole Source Awards Since the majority of sole source awards are made to 8(a) Program participants, let’s start there.

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Price Participation Thresholds Manufacturing 86

FedScoop

MARCH 1, 2024

participation in international standards-setting bodies for emerging technologies by creating a pilot program that would fund the hosting of standard-setting meetings in the United States. participation in the creation and implementation of standards for AI and other emerging tech. “In Amid growing concern that U.S. Mark Warner, D-Va.,

Influencing 109

Influencing Participation Leadership Distribution 109

Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 1, 2024

According to the CFTC, starting around September of 2020, Empires Consulting used the company’s website and social media accounts to solicit individuals, referred to as “pool participants,” to trade commodities futures, options, and digital assets with Empires X. The CFTC’s litigation against the individual defendants continues.

Consulting 89

Consulting Participation Media Finance 89

Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Three whistleblowers who tipped off the federal government to a medical device company's multimillion-dollar kickback scheme are entitled to a cut of the $3 million in False Claims Act settlements paid by surgeons who admitted participating in the sham consulting ploy, a Boston federal judge ruled Monday.

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Consulting Participation Government Government 52

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

While the survey demonstrated strong marks on some key metrics — job satisfaction is nearly 70 percent — participation in the survey remains relatively low. More than 600,000 workers at more than 80 executive agencies participated in the poll, which constitutes the largest survey of government workers.

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Data Participation Government Government 100

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

TGI researchers and collaborators focused on geospatial technologies are especially encouraged to participate. Partnering with industry players or outlining commercialization strategies is highly recommended for all participants.

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Innovation Collaboration Participation Data 117

Government Contracts

MAY 2, 2024

The Eleventh Circuit has revived a tribal-owned defense contractor's suit against another tribal-owned competitor and a former employee for allegedly stealing trade secrets, finding the competitor agreed to federal court jurisdiction when it participated in the bidding process for work on a missile detection system.

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Bidding Participation IT 98