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Welcome to Jenner & Block's Government Contracts Legal Round-Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update offers brief summaries of key developments for government contracts legal, compliance, [...]

Tendering & contractual liability for local governments When it comes to tenders, local government officers working in procurement are well aware of their regulatory obligations under Part 4 of the [...]

Last year, the UK Government published its green paper and consultation on Transforming Public Procurement. The government response to the consultation was published in December 2021 and on 11 May [...]

The Cabinet Office has produced a range of Procurement Policy Notes (PPNs) in the last two years, mainly to support contracting authorities and their suppliers in mitigating the immediate impact [...]

On April 18, 2022, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued preliminary guidance to federal agencies on how to implement the new 'Buy America' requirements applicable to federally [...]

On May 2, 2022 Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) will implement further changes to the Contract Security Program (CSP). These upcoming changes focus on the organization security screening process, [...]

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has been the cornerstone for infrastructure development and has been utilized in the past in Vietnam with varying degrees of success. Those agreements were often legally cumbersome [...]

Regulatory action around sustainable procurement and climate change continues to heat up. A recent Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) case on Sustainable Procurement takes another step towards implementing the Biden administration's [...]

Following events in Ukraine, Russia is finding itself subject to a broad range of new sanctions, internationally. As part of this collective response, the UK Government has implemented a series [...]

The Department of Defense (DOD) issued a final rule on March 18, 2022, that amends the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to require 'enhanced' post-award debriefings in certain DOD [...]

A provisional article was added to the Public Procurement Agreements Law (the 'Law') on 19.01.2022 in order to provide an additional price difference upon the request of the contractors and [...]

Background and Current Legislative Status Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) is seeking to implement a direct power purchase agreement (DPPA) pilot scheme which, for the first time, will [...]

Byline: Jeanne Whalen President Joe Biden is proposing strengthening the federal government's Buy American rules in what the administration is calling an effort to bolster domestic manufacturing. The proposal, to [...]

It has been more than two months since the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction of Executive Order 14042, the Biden Administration's [...]

On February 3, 2022, the Quebec government (Government) tabled Bill-12, An Act mainly to promote Québec-sourced and responsible procurement by public bodies, to reinforce the integrity regime of enterprises and [...]

Two federal agencies recently released a joint Request for Information ('RFI') in the latest in a series of concrete steps to meet the Biden Administration's goal to achieve 100 percent [...]

1. Please summarise briefly any relationship between the public procurement / government contracting laws in your jurisdiction and those of any supra-national body (such as WTO GPA, EU, UNCITRAL) There [...]

On Jan. 13, 2022, the Indian Health Service (IHS), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published a Final Rule governing implementation of the Buy Indian Act. [...]

The General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedule contracts are an efficient method for agencies across the Government to meet their needs for many commercially available supplies and services. For requirements [...]

The federal procurement landscape is layered with enforcement mechanisms and initiatives designed to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse, or what is commonly referred to as 'procurement fraud.' The [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The White House announced today that the US has shipped 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines around the world, a milestone that AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) described [...]

In its judgment of 21 December 2021 (C-497/20), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) confirmed that excluded tenderers may invoke all irregularities when challenging an award decision, [...]

Guideline on Procurement and Use of Medicines from Abroad ('Guideline') was amended by the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency ('Agency') and published on 23 October 2021. Accordingly, 'foreign suppliers' [...]

On March 2021 Law 4782/2021 (the 'Law') has passed, introducing a plethora of critical amendments to a wide range of the existing rules of the public procurement framework. One of [...]

self On November 17, 2021, McCarthy Tétrault hosted Part One of our Two-Part series on a Deep Dive into Canada's Public Procurement Law. The seminar, hosted by Robert A. Glasgow, [...]

The term 'public procurement' refers to the procurement of goods, services, and execution of works by the government departments and organisations functioning under their administrative control. There is no specific [...]

With annual purchases of over $100 billion in goods, services, and technology, contracting with the federal government can present a lucrative business opportunity for suppliers in Canada and abroad. However, [...]

Article summary The sustainable, green, digital era is well and truly upon us. Vast quantities of taxpayer's money are set to be spent on all sorts of investments that meet [...]

As federal agencies, and the Department of Defense in particular, increasingly allocate greater amounts of their annual budgets to nontraditional contracting arrangements generally known as other transactions ('OTs') or other [...]

The implications of the Federal Circuit's Blue & Gold waiver rule - pursuant to which a disappointed offeror waives any protest grounds it may have had to the terms of [...]

It can be challenging in the best of times for government contractors to 'see over the horizon' and plan for future risks to their business. As this fiscal year ends, [...]

May 2021 saw the election of seven 'Metro Mayors' outside London, underlining the government's renewed enthusiasm for devolving powers beyond Westminster as part of its 'levelling up' agenda. The powers [...]