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November 19, 2020 By cs

What a Biden administration will mean for contractors

For federal contractors, much will change under a Biden administration.

Some changes will return the familiar.  Some wags are already calling the next presidency a third Obama term.  That may or may not be accurate, much less fair to Biden.

One thing is certain, the government won’t retreat one dollar from its $500 billion-a-year contracting appetite.  Beyond that, the pH of the procurement waters will change.

The agency to watch, if you’re a contractor, and by extension a contracting officer, is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.  This Labor Department unit is the source of many policies that apply to contractors, starting with ensuring contractors follow what used to be called employment standards.  Mainly that contractors don’t, in their own employment practices, violate equal opportunity laws and regulations.

Administrations use it as one of the levers of power the general public doesn’t see, unlike, say, the Environmental Protection Agency or Justice Department.  Its policies apply to contracts and contractors.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/11/what-a-biden-administration-will-mean-for-contractors/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: DOJ, DOL, EPA, federal contractors, government spending, Justice Dept., Labor Dept., OFCCP, spending, White House

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