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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FedScoop

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Though the bills are largely similar, the House legislation includes a provision that the Alliance for Digital Innovation “strongly supports” that is not in the Senate version: a proposal to increase the micro-purchase threshold (MPT) made available to agencies “to rapidly acquire low-cost technical solutions.”

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Utrecht University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Professor Fredo Schotanus will advocate in this conceptual talk for more deliberate decisions regarding the introduction of competition.

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GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One would think the $25 million threshold applicable to protests of DOD task orders (the threshold is $10 million for civilian agency task orders) would be easily understood and simple to apply. GAO reasoned that because “the value of the task order [was] below $25,000,000. it does not have jurisdiction to consider the protest.”

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SmallGovCon

MAY 10, 2024

OHA reminded contractors that the nonmanufacturer rule applies only to acquisitions over the simplified acquisition threshold. Generally, the micro-purchase threshold is $10,000, and the simplified acquisition threshold is $250,000. 8(a)) at any dollar amount. 13 CFR § 125.6. .” 8(a)) at any dollar amount. 13 CFR § 125.6.

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Telles.eu

JANUARY 27, 2023

Turns out the Portuguese government included in the 2022 and 2023 Budget laws a provision authorising *all* contracts connected with the World Youth Day to be awarded directly and without competition up until the value of the EU procurement thresholds.

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Magnus Legal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How do you as an international supplier, access the competitions governed by the strict national rules in Norway?

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Government Contracts

MAY 21, 2024

grew more slowly in 2023 than in the previous two years, while Kirkland & Ellis LLP surpassed the 3,000-attorney threshold, according to the latest Law360 ranking. The 400 largest law firms by headcount in the U.S.

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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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Redstone Government Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2023

New Rule for Filing 1099s: The IRS rule TFA 23O1 reduces the electronic filing requirement from a threshold of 250 Information Returns down to 10. Employers must calculate the total number of Information Returns to determine if they meet the threshold, including 1099s, W-2s, 1098s, etc. Yes, you read that correctly.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Organizational procurement policies often establish thresholds for the application of RFQs, RFPs, REOIs, and IFBs, defining their use within specific procurement methods or strategies. Most organizational procurement policies define thresholds that dictate when a particular method should be used.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In addition to the initial purchase price, the deal has a potential earn-out of up to $250 million, payable in 2027 and subject to J&J meeting certain performance thresholds, the Austin, Texas-based mission support services provider said Monday.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

124.506 , if an 8(a) contract price would exceed a certain threshold ($7 million for manufacturing contracts, $4.5 What happens when an agency decides that instead of competing a five-year contract to 8(a) companies, it will just sole source five one-year contracts at the sole source dollar threshold to an 8(a) company? Under 13 C.F.R.

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LoupedIn

DECEMBER 17, 2021

New public procurement thresholds apply from 1 January 2022 As of 1 January 2022, the minimum financial thresholds for the procurement regime to apply will change. This change has two key features: In real terms, the result is a lowering of the net thresholds.

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Federal News Network

MAY 1, 2024

Tom Temin Sure, and there are also some updated thresholds for what gets audited, what gets investigated by the government, and also for some of the provisions for equipment and ancillary costs associated with a grant. Let’s talk about maybe the threshold for what gets audited. What are some of the top ones there? Dan Ramish Yes.

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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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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The wording implies here not that the decision must be reasoned since all administrative decisions in Portugal have to be reasoned, but instead that there is a heightened threshold of justification of the decision to be met.

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VWV

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

January 2024 - Revised thresholds for new procurements come into effect. Thresholds Along with the new Act, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 are also due to be amended to revise the threshold amounts in line with currency fluctuations. Existing threshold (until 31 December 2023) (incl.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In August, Customs and Border Protection published a list of documents related to its use of artificial intelligence, primarily several privacy threshold analyses. The post DHS touts AI work and pilots a year after executive order appeared first on FedScoop.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 11, 2024

Topics include: The possible increase in both micro-purchase and simplified acquisition threshold Issues confronting the agency comptroller regarding audit-ready data Oversight and audit issues from a cost and burden perspective The post All things SmartPay first appeared on Federal News Network.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

In the last month, we have seen our first-ever contestant cross the threshold of 1,000 votes—Booz Allen Hamilton’s Judi Dotson. The story of the Wash100 Award popular vote contest this week remains the staggering vote count.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dan Ramish: So if it goes into effect, the rule would require that agencies, when they’re placing an order under an existing IDIQ contract, it would be mandatory for the contracting officer to set aside an award of an order that’s over the micro-purchase threshold.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 16, 2024

The awarded task order reflected GreenXT’s proposed cost of $24,848,774, which was just below GAO’s $25 million jurisdictional threshold. But the Navy determined GreenXT’s total evaluated cost— i.e., the total amount the Navy expected to pay—to be $25,116,561, which was above the GAO threshold.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Now, the top eight executives in the top 30 have all cleared the 1,000 threshold! When we began this year’s iteration, no executive had ever amassed 1,000 points in the Wash100 popular vote contest. No matter where they ultimately land when voting closes in ONE WEEK, Booz

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This means that there is a tipping point, or threshold, at which higher debt levels become detrimental to growth. The debt threshold is not the same for all countries because it can be influenced by different factors such as the economic structure, for example. For LAC countries, this threshold is at approximately 53 percent of GDP.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Due to the significant volume of social media posts, only posts that score above a designated threshold are forwarded to the system for review.” That communication, from a supervisory IT specialist at the FBI, shows that the government would have had to consider what threshold values to deploy at the bureau.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The UK government has also proposed changing the minimum registration threshold from £10,000 to £50,0000. Below £50,000, importers will not have an obligation to register and account for the CBAM. This sees an increase from the original proposal of £10,000, which is a positive for SMEs, without affecting the goal of the policy.

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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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SmallGovCon

APRIL 15, 2024

FAR 19.502-2(a) requires that all acquisitions for supplies or services that have an anticipated dollar value above the micro-purchase threshold ($10,000 at the time of this post) but not over the simplified acquisition threshold or SAT ($250,000 at the time of this post) be set aside for small businesses.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

The Board noted that it intends to consider a number of criteria in making its determination, including the parties’ respective risks, oversight and compliance burdens, the encouragement of robust competition, minimizing complexity, and the promotion of consistency in the application of CAS.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, the Interim Final Rule includes the following major actions: Adjusting the economic disadvantage thresholds applicable to the 8(a) Business Development and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) programs, and the dollar limit for small business size standards for certain industries. [1] 17, 2022). [2]

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, the Interim Final Rule includes the following major actions: Adjusting the economic disadvantage thresholds applicable to the 8(a) Business Development and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) programs, and the dollar limit for small business size standards for certain industries. [1] 17, 2022). [2]

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Inside Government Contracts

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Changes to Prevailing Wage Rate Calculations Previously, DOL set a rate as the “prevailing wage” within a county when a threshold of 50 percent or more of applicable workers voluntarily reported that they were paid that rate. We expand on the final rule’s changes — and on the pending legal challenges — below.

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Import and Trade Remedies

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Category 2 – Low value consignments below a specified de minimis threshold for which no duties and taxes are collected, and eligible for immediate clearance and release upon compliance with specific requirements.

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Great Government Through Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

FinOps: At first, contractors were required to monitor and automatically suspend cloud services when consumption reached certain thresholds. The contractor must also notify the eligible users. Next steps We are still working through minor adjustments.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

The FedRAMP High designation denotes that the OpenAI services have met a higher security threshold to work with sensitive civilian datasets, including those in the fields of health care, law enforcement, finance and emergency response, among others.

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