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Tongue Twister: Commander Closes Construction Site for COVID and Contractor Can’t Recover Contract Costs

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2008), wherein a government contractor sought compensation for being barred from a military base for 41 days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The APTIM decision expressly addresses the Sovereign Acts defense, which ultimately denied the contractor’s claim for additional compensation. Geren , 550 F.3d 3d 1368 (Fed.

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

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Federal Government Proposes Greenhouse Gas Disclosures from Certain Vendors

Green Building Law Update

The Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation which will require select government vendors, from landlords to defense contractors, to indicate if and where they publicly disclose greenhouse gas emissions.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Partnering on defense contracts. Partnering for construction. excellence—A reality or myth? Building and environment, 41(12), 1924-1933. T., & Yeung, J. Achieving partnering. success through an incentive agreement: lessons learned from an underground railway. extension project in Hong Kong. Chinowsky P.S., Diekmann, J., O’Brien, J.

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A More Even Field: The Eleventh Circuit Overrules Its Precedent and Joins Most Circuits on the Applicability of Domestic FAA Grounds to Vacate Nondomestic Arbitration Awards[1]

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17] The court explained that its prior precedent erroneously “equated the defenses to recognition and enforcement with the grounds for vacatur” [18] and that this was “plainly and palpably wrong.” [19] 2008); Jacada (Eur.), 576 (2008); Lander Co. 3d at 1446 (“[T]he Convention’s enumeration of defenses is exclusive.”). [13]

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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Department of Defense recently started using public clouds to support some of its infrastructure. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. Most providers can create a plan to meet your needs, not to mention budget. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009.

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DoD FSRM, BUILDER SMS and the LEGACY of Wasteful Politics

Job Order Contracting

private interest sued the United States as a “bid protest to challenge the decision of the Department of Defense (“DOD”) to standardize its facility condition assessment needs through the Sustainment Management System (“SMS”)”2 2014: NNSA implements BUILDER with two pilots (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Pantex Plant) 1 S.

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