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The BIOSECURE Act (“the Act”), which received bipartisan support in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in 2024 but was not ultimately passed into law, has re-emerged in this session of Congress, but with...more
WHAT: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently submitted to Congress 16 proposed changes to procurement laws in support of the “Revolutionary FAR Overhaul” effort, which Wiley has been chronicling here. These...more
The federal government is actively trying to reduce its size and deregulate agencies across the Executive Branch. As noted in a previous Client Alert by Sam Finnerty, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) has not been...more
At the end of 2024, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) published a plan (“Restoring Freedom’s Forge: American Innovation Unleashed”) and introduced a bill (the Fostering Reform and Government Efficiency in Defense Act or FoRGED...more
On December 23, 2024, President Biden signed the Source Code Harmonization and Reuse in Information Technology Act (“SHARE IT Act” or “the Act”), which provides a formal mechanism for federal agencies to store and share...more
On June 30, 2023, the United States House of Representatives passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2024, H.R. 2670 (Rep. No. 118-125) (the “NDAA”)....more
On June 2, 2023, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council issued an interim rule to implement a new statutory requirement that, in short, bans the TikTok app from devices used in...more
On April 27, 2023, the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a final rule, finalizing a September 9, 2022 proposed rule, and making a myriad of changes to the Small Business Regulations. Those changes are effective at...more
On December 27, 2022, President Biden signed the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act (P.L. 117-324 or the “Act”). The law aims to tighten regulations on potential organization conflicts...more
WHAT: President Biden signed into law the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act, Pub L. No. 117-324, which mandates updates to the Federal Acquisition Regulation’s (FAR) provisions...more
On December 27, President Biden signed the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act into law. The legislation, ushered through Congress by a bipartisan group of backers, strengthens existing...more
In the midst of the year-end legislative push, Congress last week passed S. 3905, the "Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act." This "good government" law requires the Federal Acquisition...more
On June 8, 2022, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill, referred to as H.R. 7694, “Strengthening Subcontracting for Small Businesses Act of 2022” (the Bill). The Bill seeks to amend the Small Business Act by...more
The U.S. government has issued a long-awaited rule implementing legislation to prevent federal agencies from contracting with entities that use telecommunications equipment or services produced or provided by Huawei...more
Being a small business can have its advantages. Federal procurement rules provide that certain contracting opportunities may be set-aside for small business competition. Small businesses also may be exempt from certain...more
2018 was a busy year in terms of changes to the statutes and regulations that govern small business and socioeconomic set-aside procurement activities for small and large firms alike. This Miles Alert discusses two of the...more
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT - Class Deviation-Commercial Items Omnibus Clause for Acquisitions Using the Standard Procurement System - According to an article on acq.osd.mil, this class deviation rescinds and supersedes Class...more