On June 24, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction impacting the following three provisions of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (Department) final rule, Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations (“final rule”), which became effective on October 23, 2023: (1) the provision…
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In WHD’s continuing efforts to modernize the wage determinations program, effective July 1, 2024, food and lodging, halfway house, and moving and storage non-standard wage determinations will be withdrawn. Please incorporate the applicable area-wide wage determinations for food and lodging, halfway house, and moving and storage services in…
If you use SAM.gov's exclusions application programming interface (API), be aware that in mid-to-late September 2024, older versions of the API will retire and no longer be available. Version 4 (V4) of the exclusions API is the most updated version and includes a field indicating which exclusions are Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act (…
The FASCSA order rule is in effect. Use the new download button on SAM.gov to get a list of all FASCSA orders. We will show an alert to let you know the file is empty until agencies issue orders. See our blog for more details.
Executive Order (EO) 13658 generally applies to contracts subject to the Service Contract Act or the Davis-Bacon Act awarded between January 1, 2015, and January 29, 2022, and not renewed or extended on or after January 30, 2022. EO 13658 sets a minimum wage of $12.90 per hour for workers performing on or in connection with such contracts for…