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Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Recent modifications to regulations and federal government acquisition policies portend big change for contractors across the US, and their suppliers around the world. Breaking away from traditional political positions, former President Donald Trump and newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden each took steps in January 2021 to revise Buy American Act (BAA) requirements, which could have significant impacts on companies doing business with the US government. F...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: President Joe Biden issued on January 25 an Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of Americas Workers (EO). This EO leaves in place key portions of the prior administration’s July 15, 2019 EO 13881 (Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials) and related implementing regulations, orders a sweeping review of multiple domestic preference rules, including proposing standards for dom...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 25, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” laying his administration’s foundation for further strengthening Buy American laws and encouraging domestic procurement. Using the broad phrase “Made in America Laws,” the EO aims to strengthen “all statutes, regulations, rules, and Executive Orders relating to Federal financi...

Advertisement The Biden Administration’s ‘Made in America’ Executive Order: A Move to Strengthen U.S. Preferences in Federal Spending Friday, January 29, 2021 On Jan. 25, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order (E.O.) entitled “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.” 1 This E.O. seeks to bolster American industry by strengthening policies and practices related to financial federal assistance awards and federal procurements that ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on “Ensuring the Future is Made in all of America by All of America’s Workers” (the “Order”) to advance the stated policy set forth in Section 1 of: “us[ing] terms and conditions of Federal financial assistance awards and Federal procurements to maximize the use of goods, products, and materials produced in, and services offered in, the United States.” The Or...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: President Joe Biden signed on Jan. 25, 2021, executive order (EO) "Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of Americas Workers," that directs a process for updating domestic preferences. This EO builds upon a previous executive order signed by former President Donald Trump (EO number 13881) that was just instituted with final regulations earlier this month (as discussed in a previous blog post). 1 The executive action sig...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Domestic preference rules are set to change again, as just recently (January 25, 2021), President Biden continued his series of first-week Executive Orders with a new Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers. The new Executive Order is part of the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better Recovery Plan, and its purpose is to enhance Buy American policies primarily through the federal procu...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 On January 25, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers,” laying his administration’s foundation for further strengthening Buy American laws and encouraging domestic procurement. Using the broad phrase “Made in America Laws,” the EO aims to strengthen “all statutes, regulations, rules, and Executive Orders relating to Federal financial assistance awards or...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order titled “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers” (Order), which is intended to be the first step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to commit to American businesses by strengthening domestic preference rules in government procurement. The Order states the administration’s policy that the US government should “use term...

Highlights President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Jan. 25, 2021, "Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of Americas Workers" (E.O.), aimed at strengthening Buy American provisions. The E.O. establishes the Biden Administrations policy that the U.S. government should spend taxpayer dollars on American goods made by American workers with American-made component parts, and seeks to tighten exceptions from, or waivers of, domestic preference requirements under U.S. procurem...