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		<title>Happy 25th Birthday False Claims Act! – By Alexandra C. Mims</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/02/happy-25th-birthday-false-claims-act-by-alexandra-c-mims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil lawsuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[False Claims Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[qui tam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, January 31, the Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the False Claims Act Amendments of 1986.  Among the guests who joined the event, were Representative Howard Berman (the House sponsor of the law), Attorney General Eric Holder, Senator Patrick Leahy (chairman of the Judiciary Committee), and Sen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s Gold in Them There IP Number Blocks! &#8211; By Julie M. Nichols, Esq.</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/theres-gold-in-them-there-ip-number-blocks-by-julie-m-nichols-esq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/theres-gold-in-them-there-ip-number-blocks-by-julie-m-nichols-esq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP address]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP number blocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, do you happen to have an unused Internet Protocol number block sitting around?  If so, you might unwittingly be sitting on a valuable asset.  A battle is brewing to determine whether an IP number block should be recognized as a registration (like a phone number) with no inherent asset value, no right to title, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Week, Another Critical Assessment Targeting Service Contractors &#8211; By Brian C. Caney, Esq.</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/another-week-another-critical-assessment-targeting-service-contractors-by-brian-c-caney-esq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/another-week-another-critical-assessment-targeting-service-contractors-by-brian-c-caney-esq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeland Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OMB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Contractors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.centreknowledge.com/?p=1128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From insourcing initiatives to the widespread use of increasingly aggressive investigation and enforcement tactics by inspectors, as well as general and federal agencies such as the Department of Labor (DOL), service contractors have arguably been the biggest target of recent policy changes in the procurement arena.  According to the policy makers, these changes are designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back on a Tumultuous 2011 and Predictions of a Better 2012 &#8211; By Eric Crusius, Esq.</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/looking-back-on-a-tumultuous-2011-and-predictions-of-a-better-2012-by-eric-crusius-esq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/looking-back-on-a-tumultuous-2011-and-predictions-of-a-better-2012-by-eric-crusius-esq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Predictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bid protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For some contractors, 2011 was “not a year on which [we] shall look back with undiluted pleasure,” as once phrased by Queen Elizabeth II. From the threatened government shutdowns and debt ceiling crises to promises of budgetary cuts, many contractors lived the year with additional stress from market uncertainty, if not a decline in business.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GSA Schedules – A Great Federal Test Market for Your Green Technologies by Justin Swartzlander</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/gsa-schedules-%e2%80%93-a-great-federal-test-market-for-your-green-technologies-by-justin-swartzlander/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2012/01/gsa-schedules-%e2%80%93-a-great-federal-test-market-for-your-green-technologies-by-justin-swartzlander/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiple Award Schedules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green products]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GSA Schedules]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many will consider this ironic, but the Federal Government, which was once considered the slowest mover in keeping up with the times, is now in a full-court press to cut budgets and increase spending efficiency. In perhaps one of their most shocking moves, they are looking to increase cost-savings by procuring…Green products and services! Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cheeky Christmas Poem from Centre Law Group &#8212; by Sarah C. Schauerte, Esq.</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/a-cheeky-christmas-poem-from-centre-law-group-by-sarah-c-schauerte-esq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/a-cheeky-christmas-poem-from-centre-law-group-by-sarah-c-schauerte-esq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.centreknowledge.com/?p=1065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months before the holiday season, everyone anticipates only the clichés of Christmas – the colorful holiday cards, candy canes, snow-covered windowpanes, candy… You know, the parts of Christmas we enjoy effortlessly. What we DON’T remember is all of the effort that goes into Christmas. Like, who is obligated to drive seven hours to New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandatory Set-Asides &amp; the Schedules – A Clash of Objectives &amp; Realities   By Jim Phillips, Esq.</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/mandatory-set-asides-the-schedules-%e2%80%93-a-clash-of-objectives-realities-by-jim-phillips-esq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/mandatory-set-asides-the-schedules-%e2%80%93-a-clash-of-objectives-realities-by-jim-phillips-esq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiple Award Schedules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buy America Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small businesses]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.centreknowledge.com/?p=1049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a keen observer of both the blogosphere and acquisition policy discussions, it has not escaped my notice that the subject of small business set-asides is very much on people’s minds.  For example, the Veteran’s Administration (VA) has recently found itself in the undesirable position of having taken exception to a recent GAO protest, ruling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 12 Days of Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/the-12-days-of-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/the-12-days-of-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas pranks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office pranks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are getting into the spirit of the holidays here at Centre and possibly starting new traditions.  Our Executive VP, Jim Phillips started it all with his 12 Days of Christmas gifts to the staff.  Jim&#8217;s gracious gifts have included such treasures as a yodeling pickle, an extendable back scratcher and a rubber band shooting ball point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a $400,000 Contractor Pay Cap Reasonable? by Alexandra C. Mims</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/is-a-400000-contractor-pay-cap-reasonable-by-alexandra-c-mims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/is-a-400000-contractor-pay-cap-reasonable-by-alexandra-c-mims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>clewandowski</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2012 Defense Authorization bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARWG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defense contractor salaries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Senator Barbara Boxer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.centreknowledge.com/?p=984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Should there be a salary cap for defense contractors? Is it fair for an employee serving the executive branch to make more money than the commander in chief? These are some of the questions raised with the recent amendment to the 2012 Defense Authorization bill.  The amended bill was passed by a the Senate last week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Super Committee” to America: Don’t Loosen Those Belts for the Holidays – Tighten Them by Eric S. Crusius, Esq.</title>
		<link>http://www.centreknowledge.com/2011/12/the-%e2%80%9csuper-committee%e2%80%9d-to-america-don%e2%80%99t-loosen-those-belts-for-the-holidays-%e2%80%93-tighten-them-by-eric-s-crusius-esq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Centre Consulting, Inc.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government shutdown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Widely reported in recent weeks, the so-called “Super Committee” has failed to come to a resolution on how to come up with an extra $1.2 billion for the federal coffers.  That means beginning January 13, 2013, automatic spending triggers that will cut domestic and military budgets at the same levels, will now take hold.  While some Congressional members of the GOP are balking and looking for a way to alter the automatic spending cuts, President Obama has promised to veto changes to how the cuts are allocated.  Oh, and the federal government is only funded for a few more weeks.  ]]></description>
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