The Federal Acquisition Regulation, initially issued on April 1, 1984, appears poised to be rewritten. Several online sources reference a GSA announcement posted on Friday, April 4, that supposedly heralded a bottom-up rewrite of the regulation to streamline acquisition. Unfortunately, the link provided across the sources seems inoperable. The sources suggest a forthcoming executive order will direct OFPP to take the lead in simplifying the regulatory framework, keeping only what is essential and required by statute and removing outdated content from the FAR. At least one source suggests the overhaul will proceed in two phases, with the first phase focused on revising each FAR part immediately available through issuance of class deviations (April 2025–October 2025). The second phase seemingly will finalize the new FAR through formal notice and comment rulemaking (October 2025, on). Non-regulatory content will be moved to “buying guides” to support smarter, faster acquisitions aligned with the simplified FAR. The last significant revision of the FAR by executive order dates to the Clinton administration and involved revising Part 15, Contracting by Negotiation, which took four years to proceed from executive order to final rule.
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