Today, Commerce has published an interim final rule (IR) which, effective March 22, 2021, will implement the May 15, 2019 Executive Order 13873 that relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to authorize sweeping power to block or undo any transaction – including use, purchases or importation – of virtually any “information and
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DoD Releases Interim Rule on Cloud Service Acquisitions
By Olivia Lynch & Peter J. Eyre on
Posted in GSA Schedule/Commercial Items


On August 26, 2015, the DoD published an Interim Rule to implement DoD policy on the acquisition of cloud services. This Interim Rule provides a list of terms and conditions regarding cloud computing services to be used in DoD contracts for information technology services as well as introduces the requirement that offerors responding to DoD…