President Donald Trump issued an executive order on federal procurement titled "Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement" on April 15, 2025 (the April 15 EO), directing that the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) be...more
4/21/2025
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The Biden Administration on Oct. 24, 2024, issued a memorandum, "Advancing the United States' Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering...more
10/31/2024
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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) on June 6, 2024, published a Final Rule (the Rule) to eliminate self-certification for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) whose federal government contracts...more
Attorneys Eric Crusius, Amy Fuentes, Kelsey Hayes and Vijaya Surampudi co-authored an article describing the major issues they expect government contracting professionals to face in the coming year. For example, the...more
3/2/2020
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Huawei ,
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), (collectively, the Agencies) just issued a Proposed Rule that addresses...more
7/1/2019
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This is the fourth blog post in a series analyzing the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as signed into law on Aug. 13, 2018. Stay tuned for more blog posts covering additional topics in the near future from...more
This is the second blog post in a series analyzing the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as signed into law on Aug. 13, 2018. Stay tuned for more blog posts covering additional topics in the near future from...more
This is the first blog post in a series analyzing the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as signed into law on August 13, 2018. Stay tuned for more blog posts covering additional topics in the near future from...more
1/23/2019
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ESOP ,
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Prompt Payment ,
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SBA ,
SBA Lending Programs ,
SBIRs ,
Small Business ,
STTR ,
Subcontractors
More than eight months after issuing its proposed rules, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has finally issued the long awaited final rule amending its Veteran-Owned Small Business Guidelines. The final rule amends...more
9/25/2018
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Small Business ,
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VOSB
On Aug. 31, 2018, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued Class Deviation 2018-O00018, which increases the micro-purchase threshold for DoD procurements from $5,000 to $10,000. The deviation implements Section 821 of the...more
On May 1, 2018, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council published a final rule amending FAR 16.505(a)(10) to raise the minimum threshold for Government Accountability Office (GAO) protests of certain task and...more
5/7/2018
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This is the sixth blog post in a series of blogs analyzing the current draft of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as agreed-to by House and Senate negotiators on November 8, 2017. Stay tuned for additional...more
12/8/2017
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