Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We just didn’t have our own indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) vehicles with the MITREs, LMIs or RANDs of the world. 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.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

The Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) recently announced that it seeks public comments on “whether and how” to amend the rules to clarify whether the CAS apply to indefinite value contract vehicles (or IDVs, otherwise known as indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity, or IDIQ, contracts). Comments are due no later than August 19, 2024.

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

DECEMBER 23, 2019

First, the simplified acquisition threshold currently sits at $150 thousand but there is a FAR proposal on the table that will increase that threshold to $250 thousand. There are several things to note here. Second, the request must be in writing. It will take a little more than a phone call to get the contracting officer to act.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

More specifically, each BPA holder shall be provided a specific request for quote (RFQ) for procurement requirements of an anticipated total dollar value exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. Schedule contracts provide for an extensive volume of competitive cost/price offerings. for dollar values up $7.5

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

More specifically, each BPA holder shall be provided a specific request for quote (RFQ) for procurement requirements of an anticipated total dollar value exceeding the simplified acquisition threshold. Schedule contracts provide for an extensive volume of competitive cost/price offerings. for dollar values up $7.5

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Import and Trade Remedies

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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. e-commerce imports by quantity, increasing by 88 percent from 2018 to 2021, and constituting 83 percent of total U.S. e-commerce imports in fiscal year 2022.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

DECEMBER 6, 2023

To meet this threshold, a protester must demonstrate that, but for the agency’s actions, it would have had a substantial chance of receiving the award. The minimum dollar threshold for Department of Defense task orders is $25 million and $10 million for civilian agencies.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MAY 21, 2024

Another potential change is an increase to the tariff-rate quota threshold. Commerce has also requested that certain exporters and producers submit information with respect to the quantity and value of their recent exports to the United States. The current deadline for these submissions is June 4, 2024.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

the quantity and depth of new information) and whether new information is actionable for key stakeholders such as bidding firms; and (ii) the nature of demand for transparency, that is the existence of data users who are willing and able to act upon the information published.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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.

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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 1, 2024

The EO was intended to strengthen the requirements of the Buy American Act (“BAA”) by, among other things, directing the FAR Council to issue new rules increasing the domestic content threshold for determining whether a product qualifies as a domestic end product. Beginning in calendar year 2029, the threshold will be 75 percent.

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SmallGovCon

JULY 19, 2024

Then the government had him write an essay. Manufactured Dual-Use, Military Grade Microelectronics for Russian Entities The post SmallGovCon Week in Review: July 15-19, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog.

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 28, 2023

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. The waiver will also apply when “[t]he total amount of Federal financial assistance applied to the project, through awards or subawards, is below $500,000.”

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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

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.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Robert Skinner, the next iteration will include streamlined cloud capability, greater diversity in cloud service providers, and potentially “an option of not having task orders competed, that we can have an [indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity] as well as task order competition.” The CMMC 2.0

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 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

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

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] GAO’s competitive prejudice threshold should be similar.

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

3306(c), took away the requirement for considering price in a competition for a multiple award indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (“IDIQ”) contract vehicle if orders under the contract vehicle will be for services on an hourly rate basis. .”); FAR 6.401. [23] 24] See Professional Analysis, Inc., B-410202 , 2014 CPD ¶ 247, at 2 (Aug.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Further, confirming the broad applicability of CMMC, DOD confirmed that these requirements will be applicable to contracts below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (which currently sits at $250,000). The CMMC 2.0 According to the proposed rule, DoD plans to implement a phased rollout of CMMC.

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 13, 2022

26] Section 503 and VEVRAA AAPs also apply (when thresholds are met) to a construction contractor/subcontractor on a Federal construction project, but not for a construction project that is merely Federally-assisted. [27] 28] Moreover, a contractor/subcontractor may be required to have multiple AAPs.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 26, 2024

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. “Government contractors have invested millions in indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts as they are fast and easy ways to buy.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2025

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.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 9, 2025

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.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

75] Looking at the FRED data , it shows a little more variability, but nonetheless affirms ~20% of GDP as a threshold that appears difficult to surpass. [76] 35] How are personal consumption expenditures (PCE) prices and quantities derived?, of GDP (call it 20% for the sake of simplicity). [75] 76] Why ~20%, and why for so long?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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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