Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement
Directs Federal Agencies to Reform Government Contracting Rules
What it does
Agencies must amend procurement regulations to keep only statutory or essential provisions and adopt streamlined acquisition guidance.
Real-world impact
- Changes how federal agencies write and use procurement rules for contracts.
- Affects businesses that sell goods and services to the government, including defense contractors.
- Creates review and possible four-year expiry for non-statutory procurement rules.
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Summary
This order requires a major rewrite of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to remove unnecessary rules and keep only provisions required by law or essential for simple procurement. The Administrator and the FAR Council must amend the regulation and issue interim guidance.
The order directs each agency to name senior procurement officials to coordinate reforms and asks the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue implementation guidance; it sets a process to let non-statutory rules expire after four years. The goal is to reduce costs, speed federal purchases, and make contracting easier for businesses and taxpayers.
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