Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Most government contracts require a competitive solicitation process, especially for purchases exceeding certain thresholds, typically ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. One approach to securing short-term wins is to offer a proof of concept or low-cost pilots that fall below the agencys competitive threshold.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 26, 2025

Requirements may not be split into multiple efforts to stay under the dollar threshold limit. My staff will monitor compliance with this approval process by conducting intermittent reviews. The memo comes after Hegseth released a series of directives aimed at reducing reliance on outside firms and increasing its in-house capabilities.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The FAR covers various aspects, including contract formation, administration, pricing, and subcontracting standards, ensuring a standardized approach to federal procurement. Certain modifications may necessitate preliminary price negotiations to protect the governments interests.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are specific dashboards that analyze prices on the central e-catalog , medical procurement , buyer evaluations , Energy Services Company (ESCO) procurement, or internal auditing practices. Recently, TI Ukraine found an interim solution that combines the flexibility of ProBI with a low “entry threshold.”

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Import and Trade Remedies

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On the other hand, this was also beneficial to consumers reliant on eCommerce stores offering competitive prices, reduced taxes, and a wide range of selection. Furthermore, both suppliers and consumers benefitted from simplified import procedures.

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Capital Edge Consulting

JUNE 20, 2025

In contrast, 87% of ~750 forward pricing submissions resulted in formal audits. 🔹 Action item: Forward pricing submissions remain high-risk for audit. 🔹 Breakdown by type: Forward Pricing: 7.4% Incurred Cost: Less than 1% 🔹 Action item: Prioritize internal reviews for forward pricing and terminations.

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How to Crack a Nut

JUNE 27, 2025

Thank you [and hiatus] Dec 23, 2015 Dec 20, 2015 CJEU: companies cannot mislead consumers under their freedom of expression (C-157/14) Dec 20, 2015 Dec 16, 2015 AG Mengozzi on price comparisons: buying cars is not like buying tomatoes. OK, but for the wrong reasons? (C-152/17)

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 28, 2025

In this case, Google moved to block Sparks action for price fixing, citing the arbitration clause Spark signed. While Uber opens some discretion, the practical barriers referred to in Uber are a significant threshold to meet. In Lochan , the procedure to start an arbitration was at the sole discretion of the crypto platform.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 8, 2025

Interview transcript: Dan Ramish Well, Tom, the Buy America Act does apply to many federal contracts, but depending on the dollar threshold of the contract and whether certain exceptions apply, the Trade Agreements Act may also apply and may call for foreign supplies. The idea of a tariff is to give them a price advantage.

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ivalua

JULY 7, 2025

There are different levels of matching: 2-Way Matching compares the invoice to one reference point, this could be the purchase order (PO), a contract or the Goods/Services receipt to confirm items, quantities, prices, and terms align. Does a small price variance trigger a manual review? What about a missing PO or a suspicious supplier?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 2, 2025

Exclusions: Contracts or task orders fulfilled by direct service providers; Contracts in direct support of defense weapon system programs; and Contracts or orders valued below the thresholds listed above. The pricing is valid for orders executed on or before September 30, 2027. What Is GSA’s TDR Rule?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 14, 2025

As a threshold matter, it is important to note that the remaining 85 percent of supplies and products are ordered manually across the VA. An automated ordering platform would provide VHA with the opportunity to leverage the pricing and value associated with the suite of products offered via the MSPV program and other VA contracts.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 4, 2025

Now, I’ve written about purchase cards when I wrote about micro purchase thresholds last year, and I think that there’s a lot to be lost if we discard the purchase cards. And they’ve got a 30 day pause on this dollar threshold. This may be a chance for a meeting of the minds. What kind of data do they need?

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Federal News Network

JUNE 3, 2025

So if this gives you the ability to go in and do a better job, because you’re not so constrained, you don’t have to follow the same process for acquisition after acquisition or just because you hit a certain dollar threshold, if it gives you that flexibility, that can be a really good thing.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 5, 2025

Pricing, Policy and Compliance Developments in Healthcare A newly released EO, Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patient s , directs federal agencies to pursue most-favored-nation pricing for prescription drugs.

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ivalua

JULY 15, 2025

Procurement then sends the PO to the selected supplier with final pricing, delivery terms, and other details. Using intake management software , you can configure routing rules, budget thresholds, and required fields to improve purchase requisition management and enforce compliance from the start.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 24, 2025

So this is a surprisingly low threshold. Before we leave the DHS memo, I just wanna highlight that the previous threshold that came out earlier this year in March was $25 million and now it’s $100,000. And so they had two different thresholds there too. Stephanie Kostro: They are in fact getting 17 different perspectives.

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GovSpend

JUNE 5, 2025

GovSpend’s spending module reveals: Exact purchase history Vendor pricing comparisons Quantity and brand preferences This level of visibility helps vendors avoid pricing themselves out of contention and ensures that their proposals are based on real-world agency behavior. gloves, toner) Descriptive attributes (e.g.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 10, 2025

Pricing parity with commercial offerings, with no additional security or government uplifts ever charged in the Oracle cloud; Provide access to white-glove migration services for modernizing workloads across legacy Oracle services to OCI; and A discount of $0.33 Use promo code 20CGPSUB at checkout to receive the discounted price.

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Federal News Network

JULY 15, 2025

Section 813, the micro-purchase threshold increases, is really an accounting way to sort of help non-traditional and some of the small member companies that are working in the space in the national defense area are really making it easier for them to do business. They understand what went wrong and why they did not get it.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 17, 2025

Access to federal contracts set aside exclusively for 8(a) firms, as well as the ability to receive sole-source awards up to specified thresholds. Dodds also examines GSA’s expansion of Transactional Data Reporting, noting its implications and the likely end of the Price Reduction Clause. Business Development Assistance.

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Redstone Government Consulting

DECEMBER 16, 2024

FAR Council proposes increasing acquisition thresholds for inflation, reducing administrative burdens while impacting contractor procurement policies.

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The CGP

AUGUST 11, 2023

“Fair and Reasonable” MAS contract level pricing is impacted by a host of factors. Contracting officers must assess, analyze, and apply these factors when reviewing an offeror’s proposal and negotiating fair and reasonable pricing. Previous FAR & Beyond blogs regarding this topic can be found here and here.

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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. The protestor’s proposed price was $30,478,050, and its total evaluated price was $30,566,297. 4106(f)(1) and 10 U.S.C.

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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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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

. § 124.506 states that a solicitation must be competed among 8(a) Program participants if there is a reasonable expectation that at least two eligible 8(a) Program participants will submit offers at a fair market price, the anticipated award price will exceed $7 million for manufacturing NAICS and $4.5 million or less for all others.

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Redstone Government Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Government wants to pay a fair and reasonable price for products and services that they purchase and expects you to pay your suppliers a fair and reasonable price. If the purchase exceeds the micro-purchase threshold, yes $10,000 , you must document the justification as sole source. It is never as easy as checking a box.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 24, 2024

Data management tools, like pricing algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), are playing an ever-larger role in Federal procurement as agencies look to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and improve contract outcomes. GSA’s current use of algorithms and pricing data is instructive in this regard.

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SmallGovCon

APRIL 15, 2024

The Rule of Two is the federal contracting rule requiring agencies to set aside a solicitation for competition only between small businesses when there are at least two small businesses that could do the work for a fair price. But that rule does have some exceptions. Read on to find out.

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GovCon & Trade

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Specifically, “[t]he lowest price[d] offer will be evaluated and if it is in the highest category of past performance, no other review will be completed. If it is not in the highest category of past performance, we will evaluate the next lowest [priced] offer in the highest past performance category.” B-418123.4,

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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?

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 19, 2024

Price Preference For civilian agencies , if the contractor with the lowest priced domestic end product is a large business, then the agency will add a price evaluation penalty to the offeror with the lowest priced foreign end product of 20%. What is a Domestic End Product?

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Federal News Network

JULY 12, 2024

The BAA, however, is a price evaluation preference, which means if the price of a Chinese product is low enough, the federal government will buy that product. For large business offerors, the price preference added to non-domestic offers is 20%, and for small business offerors, it is 30%.

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Redstone Government Consulting

MARCH 26, 2025

The Government considers a split purchase when a contractor intentionally breaks down a requirement to stay under a regulatory threshold (e.g., micro-purchase, simplified acquisition threshold, or Truthful Cost or Pricing Data Act (TINA)) in order to circumvent procurement requirements or avoid having to compete.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It was very in-depth, and it had proposals to modernize the program, one of which is to add, a level of competition to the program to ensure that the contractors are performing with excellence and that there’s a chance to do a price competition potentially every five years for the contracts. We don’t.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government contractors. Applicability of the FAR Cost Principles The FAR Cost Principles apply to the “pricing of contracts, subcontracts, and modifications whenever cost analysis is performed.” [1]

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