Discussions & Clarifications

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and NASA issued a proposed rule to adjust several acquisition-related thresholds for inflation. Key increases include the micro-purchase threshold and simplified acquisition threshold, benefiting small businesses and industry overall.

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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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Tenders Direct

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Details of current UK Public Procurement Thresholds for different types of goods, works and services. Thresholds in effect from 1 January 2022. The post UK Public Procurement Thresholds appeared first on Tenders Direct Blog.

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Tenders Direct

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Details of current EU Public Procurement Thresholds for different types of goods, works and services. The post EU Public Procurement Thresholds appeared first on Tenders Direct Blog.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 23, 2023

I was asked to revisit the Fosen-Linjen Saga on the EFTA Court’s interpretation of the threshold for liability in damages arising from breaches of EU/EEA procurement law.

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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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LoupedIn

JANUARY 7, 2022

As of 1 January 2022, the minimum financial thresholds for the procurement regime to apply changed, so new ones are now in force. The change has two key features: The new thresholds only affect procurements commencing on or after 1 January 2022. Procurements already commenced before then are unaffected.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. Dollar thresholds on the rise Another boost likely is coming for small businesses, this time from the Federal Acquisition Regulations Council.

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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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Telles.eu

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The problem is how to go forward from here but the time to start thinking is now.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Raising the micro-purchase threshold One potential solution to these challenges is to raise the micro-purchase threshold, allowing federal agencies greater discretion in engaging directly with small businesses.

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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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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 10, 2025

Through a series of intuitive dashboards and control panels, users can effectively manage resource allocation, set thresholds, and track utilization. When a consumers resource usage within the Outpost breaches the soft threshold, the owner account sends an email to the Outposts owner. Threshold for Amazon EC2 resource on Outpost level.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 15, 2025

A bid protest pilot program included in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act shifts litigation costs onto unsuccessful bid protesters and raises claim-filing thresholds, which could increase risks to U.S. Department of Defense contractors who file protests, and reduce oversight of DOD procurement awards, say attorneys at Venable.

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Telles.eu

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, the Communication recognises that 80% of contracts are below-thresholds and as such no real procurement data is captured about them beyond the approach taken by individual member States in using TED for the notices or doing so via national portals. Wouldn't it be great if all that data was captured in a single place?

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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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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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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 17, 2024

Serious Irregularity The leading authority on Section 68 challenges is RAV Bahamas Ltd and another v Therapy Beach Club Inc [2021] UKPC 8 , which prescribes that intervention should be limited to ‘extreme’ cases and that the test of serious irregularity imposes a ‘high threshold’.

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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

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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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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