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President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Jan. 25, 2021, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America s Workers (E.O.), aimed at strengthening Buy American provisions.
The E.O. establishes the Biden Administration s 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. procurement laws.
President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Jan. 25, 2021, Ensuring the Future is Made in All of America by All of America s Workers (E.O.), aimed at strengthening Buy American provisions. The E.O. was one of a number of actions intended to quickly follow through on pledges made on the campaign trail last year. President Biden announced last summer in his Plan to Fight for Workers by Delivering on Buy America and Make It in America that the Biden-Harris Administration woul
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Articulates Administration Policy And Creates New Made In America Office To Review Proposed Waivers Of “Made In America Laws”
On January 25, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed an Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers (the “Made-in-America E.O.”). According to the White House, the Made-in-America E.O. “directs a process for updating domestic preferences to fit the current realities of the American economy” and is designed to ensure “that when the federal government spends taxpayer dollars, they are spent on American made goods by American workers and with American-made component parts.” In remarks at the signing ceremony, President Biden stated that the Executive Order is designed to “get to the core issue with a centralized, coordinated effort.”
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of my Administration that the United States Government should, consistent with applicable law, use 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 United States Government should, whenever possible, procure goods, products, materials, and services from sources that will help American businesses compete in strategic industries and help America’s workers thrive. Additionally, to promote an accountable and transparent procurement policy, each agency should vest waiver issuance authority in senior agency leadership, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law.
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On January 20, 2021, the first day of the Biden Administration, the President took several executive actions that affect government contractors. The President is expected to sign an additional Executive Order (EO) today that addresses several federal worker issues.
First, the President rescinded several Executive Orders (EOs) issued by the prior administration that either directly affected contractors or the regulatory process as a whole.
Section 10 of the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government rescinds Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. EO 13950 had prohibited certain types of training programs by contractors and federal grantees and imposed serious sanctions for contractors or grantees who ran afoul of the EOs limitations. Section 10 also instructs agencies to consider actions to suspend agency actions arising fr
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The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council recently issued a final rule that implements the requirements of the Maximizing Use of American-Made Goods, Products, and Materials Executive Order. As discussed below, the final rule – which largely adopts the proposed revisions set forth in the FAR Council’s September 14, 2020, proposed rule contains important amendments concerning domestic component thresholds and domestic pricing preferences, as well as reintroduces the domestic content test for commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) items as it relates to certain steel and iron products.
Domestic Content Cost Threshold Changes