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The Department of Veterans Affairs provided Congress with a “long overdue” update Tuesday on efforts to modernize its supplychain, fielding questions from lawmakers about the department’s transparency regarding the plan. The post Congress presses VA on modernization overhaul, supplychain system upgrade appeared first on FedScoop.
The new FAR clauses implementing these changes will apply to all contracts, including contracts below the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT), contracts or orders for commercial products or services (including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items), and orders under indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracting vehicles.
Another potential change is an increase to the tariff-rate quota threshold. gigawatts “to ensure domestic module manufacturing continues to grow while manufacturers scale production throughout the supplychain.” The current deadline for these submissions is June 4, 2024.
The FIT Act would authorize agencies to make advanced payments for cloud computing services, increase the simplified acquisition threshold from $250,000 to $500,000 and the micro-purchase threshold from $10,000 to $25,000, and require Federal procurement officers to take cross-functional training. The CMMC 2.0
In the face of strong opposition from some powerful lobbying groups like the United Steelworkers Union, DOT maintained fairly robust thresholds in line with the proposed waiver. In some cases, companies may need to carefully review supplychains to ensure their goods are compliant with domestic preference rules.
The priority areas are: Asset Management Vulnerability Management Defensible Architecture Cyber SupplyChain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Incident Detection & Response Each priority area includes further alignment goals to address these variations. According to the proposed rule, DoD plans to implement a phased rollout of CMMC.
FHWA proposes that the domestic iron and steel in those manufactured products would count towards the 55% domestic component threshold. That general waiver has been in place ever since.
18] And, for DoD, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) 216.203-4 limits the use of the FAR EPA clauses to DoD contracts that exceed the simplified acquisition threshold (presently $250,000 with exceptions), and performance is longer than six months. [19] 22] , [23] In turn, the FAR supplies four options for EPA clauses.
This is a crucial step in supporting a diverse and resilient federal marketplace, driving cost savings, and improving the overall supplychain. The small business specialist should notify the PCR for any non-set-aside order over a threshold negotiated between the agency and SBA,” the memo added.
Terms and conditions, among them, quality, quantity, delivery, warranty, capability, complexity and place of performance, factor into pricing decisions. 5] Agencies may compete orders on the GSA Schedule 8(a) contract even if the value of the order is below the 8(a) competitive threshold ($4.5 It is also a regulatory requirement.
If a multiple-award acquisition is expected to meet or exceed the substantial bundling dollar threshold the agencys small business specialist would be required to notify the PCR if the agency expects less than 30% of the contract awardees to be small businesses. A little over a month later, on Dec.
Kurt Hauser made an observation, sometimes called Hauser’s law (but calling it a law is an overstatement because it is not a globally applicable principle like the law of supply and demand). [74] 86] Hence, supplychain realignment is well underway. .” 86] Hence, supplychain realignment is well underway.
COTS items are defined as any item of supply that is (1) a commercial item, (2) sold in substantial quantities in the commercial marketplace, and (3) offered to the government under a contract or subcontract at any tier, without modification, in the same form in which it is sold in the commercial marketplace.
As CISA has noted , [an SBOM] has emerged as a key building block in software security and software supplychain risk management. SBOMs are defined by CISA as a formal record containing the details and supplychain relationships of various components used in building software.
MAPS is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that is set to replace the ITES-3S and RS3 contracts in 2027. Request for Feedback on Proposed Rule Raising Procurement Thresholds The Coalition plans to submit comments on a November 29 proposed rule, “Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Thresholds.”
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