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A New Dawn or New Nightmare: Will Transactional Data Reporting Reduce, or Merely Shift, GSA Schedule Contractors' Compliance Burden?

Client Alert | 1 min read | 06.23.16

Despite competing concerns expressed by both contractors and the IG, on June 23, 2016, GSA published a final rule proceeding with a pilot program imposing substantial monthly transactional data reporting obligations on contractors but relieving them from the burden of both commercial sales practices data submissions and the monitoring of commercial sales to tracking customers, as well as from the threat of price readjustments and possible FCA liability under the Price Reduction clause. The pilot program will initially apply to new contracts (and existing contracts where contractors elect to participate) under select GSA Schedules accounting for approximately 43 percent of GSA Schedule purchases, including Schedule 70 (Information Technology) and 00CORP (Professional Services), and continue for at least one year as GSA evaluates its ability effectively to collect and use transactional data and price analysis to assure better pricing for GSA Schedule customers.

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.03.26

Important EU Court Judgment Clarifies Rules on Interest Due in Cartel Damages Cases

In a judgment that will have direct and immediate consequences, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has clarified that for all competition damages actions brought after 26 December 2014, interest runs from the date on which the harm occurred. The ruling addressed two important questions: (1) whether national provisions implementing Article 3(2) of the EU Damages Directive — which requires interest to run from the date harm occurred —apply to cases in which the harm preceded the adoption of those provisions; and (2) how the date of harm should be determined in cartel cases involving the purchase of goods at inflated prices....

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