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In March 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that described changes it anticipated making to it's Davis-Bacon Act regulations.  In this episode of The GovCon Video Blog,™ we briefly discuss three of the proposed changes that government contractors should be aware that may impact the prevailing wage determinations in their localities.

In March 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued regulations under the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) that implemented most of the enhanced postaward debriefing rights mandated in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (NDAA 2018).  The enhanced postaward debriefing rights under DFARS include the right to debriefings in connection with contract awards and task and delivery orders over $10 million, the right to submit follow-up questions and receive responses after a debriefing, and under certain circumstances the right to receive an agency's written source selection decision document.  In this episode of The GovCon Video Blog,™ we briefly discuss the enhanced postward debriefing rights under DFARS.

After the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued an Interim Rule in September 2020 announcing that it's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) would be fully implemented by October 2025, DoD received significant public comment that informed its subsequent revisions to the CMMC framework.  Those revisions are reflected in an updated iteration of CMMC, now called CMMC 2.0.  In this episode of The GovCon Video Blog,™ we give a quick update of CMMC and DoD's transition to CMMC 2.0.

Subpart 19.6 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) sets out the rules covering the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Certificate of Competency Program, which, although not as familiar to small business government contractors as other SBA Programs, provides small businesses a unique chance to open doors to contracting opportunities that otherwise seemingly have closed shut.  In this episode of The GovCon Video Blog,™ we discuss briefly four things that small business government contractors should know about the SBA's Certificate of Competency Program.