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Decoding the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

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On Oct. 30, the Biden administration took a decisive step into the future by issuing the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The President’s Competition Order – One Week On

On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (the “Order”).  The Order responds to what the President characterizes as a “failed experiment” in lax antitrust...more

Perkins Coie

DoD’s Revised Acquisition Policy Highlights Goals of Flexibility and Speed in Procurement

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In a new directive, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) revised acquisition policies across the DoD to emphasize flexibility, competition, affordability, and performance as among the high-level objectives of a broader push...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Brazil Initiates Process to Join the WTO Government Procurement Agreement

- On May 18, 2020, the government of Brazil submitted its application for accession to the WTO GPA, which will further open the Brazilian government procurement market to foreign producers and foreign service providers and...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

Small Business Runway Act Regulation Goes Into Effect – You May Have a Choice in How to Calculate Your Size

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

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

GAO Sustains a Protest of an Out-Of-Scope Contract Modification

Many government contractors do not know that they can protest a modification of a contract that was awarded to a competitor if that modification is materially beyond the scope of the original contract. It’s true: where a...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Court Rules Sole Source FSS Task Order Extension Permissible for Complex IT Project

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A recent protest decision highlights a little-known sole source authority unique to GSA Schedule procurements that could benefit federal contractors and their agency customers working on complex information technology...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Weekly Update Newsletter - April 2019

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HEARING ON THE SMALL BUSINESS RUNWAY EXTENSION ACT - PilieroMazza’s Megan Connor testified at the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Infrastructure’s hearing on March 26, 2019, concerning the...more

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