SmallGovCon Week in Review: December 30-January 3, 2025

Happy Friday and Happy New Year to all of our SmallGovCon readers! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are looking forward to 2025. As we look forward to the new year and close out the old, there are sure to be lots of developments in the federal contracting space. So, as you batten down the hatches for the polar vortex, it’s time for a nice, warm fire, maybe some hot cocoa and the latest in federal contracting news.

Stories included a new law on custom software, and rules on small business representation and debarments.

• What will 2025 bring for CISA?
• Agencies required to share custom software under new law
• Federal Acquisition Regulation: Rerepresentation of Size and Socioeconomic Status
• Federal Acquisition Regulation: Improving Consistency Between Procurement and Nonprocurement Procedures on Suspension and Debarment
• Congressional and Presidential Transition
• IG Raises Further Concerns with Collection of Tax Debt by Contractors
• Biden Orders Agencies to Close January 9 as Day of Mourning for Carter
• DOJ Issues Final Rule for Enhancing Data Security EO
• NIH’s acquisition arm launches online educational courses for IT contracts
• Here comes AI: How federal contractors are preparing
• DoD’s multi-billion dollar moving contract faces another legal challenge