2020 Federal Contracts: A Busy Year for New Regulations and Initiatives
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The VPP is intended to host authoritative product content such as standardized manufacturer names and part numbers with the aim of improving GSA’s supply chain risk management and modernizing the customer experience. L. 115-232), which allows GSA to implement “unpriced schedules.” immixGroup’s Division Counsel Jeff Ellinport explains Section 876 and how it benefits government contractors in his latest article for Washington Technology. Learn more about CMMC and the NIST 800-171 assessment requirements in my last blog and our on-demand video from the Arrow Technology Summit: Recent Cybersecurity Regulations Impacting the U.S. Government’s Supply Chain. On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from conducting “workplace training that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or any form of race or sex scapegoating.” The EO includes a contract provision to be included in federal prime contracts entered on or after November 21, 2020, with a mandatory flow down to subcontractors. However, while some agencies begin to issue class deviations to incorporate the EO, many observers expect it will be rescinded when President-Elect Joe Biden takes office in January.