Ignore the (pre-established) name of the rule, and focus only on what it does: it allows the DoD to exclude a supplier from competitive bidding.

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adrr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It stop any one with government contracts from using anthropic. Not just bidding on government contracts.

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timr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The latter is how the former is accomplished. Government employees cannot simply choose not to work with an otherwise winning bidder, so the government has pre-defined rules that allow pre-exclusion from the bidding process. This is one.

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ted_dunning 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No. It is much more than this.

If I sell red widgets that I make by hand to the government, I won't be allowed to use Anthropic to help me write my web-site.

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timr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You’re just restating the implication of the rule, but the rule is as I stated. That’s the point of having such a rule.

	▲	clhodapp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As you said: focus on what it does. What it does is prevent companies that Anthropic needs to do business with from doing business with Anthropic.

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AlexCoventry 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is misinformation. It would be essentially a death sentence for a company like Anthropic, which is targeting enterprise business development. No one who wants to work with the US government would be able to have Claude on their critical path.

> (b) Prohibition. (1) Unless an applicable waiver has been issued by the issuing official, Contractors shall not provide or use as part of the performance of the contract any covered article, or any products or services produced or provided by a source, if the covered article or the source is prohibited by an applicable FASCSA orders as follows:

https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.204-30

	▲	timr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> That is misinformation. It would be essentially a death sentence for a company like Anthropic, which is targeting enterprise business development. "Misinformation" does not mean "facts I don't like". > No one who wants to work with the US government would be able to have Claude on their critical path. Yes. That is what the rule means. Or at least "the department of war". It's not clear to me that this applies to the whole government.

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tclancy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So tell us all the other similar times this has been done. Why are you so invested in some drunk and a his mob family being right?