We recently reported several milestones and accomplishments from the inaugural year of the Antitrust Division’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force. To kick off its second year, the Strike Force has now formally announced a...more
11/23/2020
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Exactly one year ago, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) unveiled its Procurement Collusion Strike Force – an interagency partnership created to target collusion in public procurement and government...more
On October 20, 2020, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced that it had reached a $4.1 million settlement with Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., the multinational conglomerate holding company...more
On October 1, 2020, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued guidance warning of potential sanctions risks for making ransomware payments related to malicious cybersecurity incidents. The same day, the Financial...more
On August 6, 2020, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) issued a temporary final rule modifying the list of Personal Protective Equipment (“PPE”) subject to FEMA’s export restrictions and extending the...more
An executive order signed by President Trump on August 3, 2020 (“Order”) prompts federal contractors to review their hiring practices and, if they offshored federal contract work, to determine the impact on hiring U.S....more
On July 10, 2020, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (“FAR”) Council released a prepublication version of an interim rule, FAR Case 2019-009 (the “Interim Rule”), amending the FAR to prohibit federal agencies from contracting...more
Government contractors operate in a constantly changing regulatory environment, and in certain circumstances, a contractor may be contractually entitled to receive a price adjustment when it must comply with a new federal law...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) had a busy week last week. The Department of the Treasury, which chairs CFIUS, released its Annual Report for 2018 and additional statistics for 2019 that...more
V&E’s Government Contracts practice authored the US procurement law section of Chambers’ 2020 Global Practice Guide on Public Procurement, which was released April 6, 2020. The Guide covers core legislation and regulations,...more
On Thursday, April 16 and Monday, April 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) made announcements to address the global COVID-19 crisis, recognizing both that providing...more
On April 27, 2020, the Department of the Treasury issued an interim rule establishing a filing fee for certain transactions filed with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). The fees only apply to...more
On April 21, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) published a notification detailing ten exemptions to the export restrictions on personal protective equipment (“PPE”) that FEMA implemented in a temporary final...more
On April 7, 2020, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) issued a temporary final rule to restrict exports of respirators, masks and gloves used by healthcare providers. The restrictions, which will remain in effect...more
On Friday, March 20, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), an Executive Office within the White House, released guidance to federal department and agency heads on dealing with federal contractors as the nation...more
Energy companies often find themselves in business with the federal government—selling natural gas and electricity to federal facilities, providing energy savings services, supplying jet fuel, furnishing renewable power, and...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) had a busy week last week. In addition to adding names of individuals to its list of Specially Designated Nationals (“SDNs”) and releasing its...more
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion substantially clarifying how supplies delivered to the Government can qualify as “U.S.-made end products” under the contract clauses implementing...more
New rules governing the review of transactions by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) take effect today.
CFIUS, an inter-agency panel of the U.S. government, reviews foreign investment for...more
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), released the final regulations to implement the 2018 CFIUS reform law, the Foreign...more
2/4/2020
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