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Broad Agency Announcement. The Broad Agency Announcement ( BAA) is a technique for United States government agencies to solicit proposals from outside groups for certain research and development. The agency will then select proposals to fund as contracts or grants.
The Buy American Act (originally 41 U.S.C. §§ 10a – 10d, now 41 U.S.C. §§ 8301 – 8305) passed in 1933 by the Congress and signed by President Hoover on his last full day in office (March 3, 1933), [ 1] required the United States government to prefer U.S.-made products in its purchases. Other pieces of federal legislation extend similar ...
A non-disclosure agreement ( NDA ), also known as a confidentiality agreement ( CA ), confidential disclosure agreement ( CDA ), proprietary information agreement ( PIA ), or secrecy agreement ( SA ), is a legal contract or part of a contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the ...
A master service agreement, sometimes known as a framework agreement, is a contract reached between parties, in which the parties agree to most of the terms that will govern future transactions or future agreements . A master agreement delineates a schedule of lower-level service agreements, permitting the parties to quickly enact future ...
Section 165 ( 49 U.S.C. § 5323 (j)) of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (commonly called the Buy America Act) is a section of the larger STAA that deals with purchases related to rail or road transportation. [ 1] Unlike the similarly titled Buy American Act (1933), the Buy America Act applies only to purchases related to rail ...
The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (BEA) (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 101–508, title XIII; 104 Stat. 1388-573; codified as amended at scattered sections of 2 U.S.C. & 15 U.S.C. § 1022) was enacted by the United States Congress as title XIII of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, to enforce the deficit reduction accomplished by that law by revising the federal ...
The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 ( TAA ), Pub. L. 96–39, 93 Stat. 144, enacted July 26, 1979, codified at 19 U.S.C. ch. 13 ( 19 U.S.C. §§ 2501 – 2581 ), is an Act of Congress that governs trade agreements negotiated between the United States and other countries under the Trade Act of 1974. It provided the implementing legislation for the ...
Strike action at six U.K airports, including London Heathrow, was avoided when union leaders accepted what they called a "much improved" pay settlement from BAA Ltd. The Unite union, which ...