The Trump administration has launched an effort to overhaul the Federal Acquisition Regulation with a focus on delivering a quicker, more efficient and less burdensome procurement process for federal ...

On July 24, 2025, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council published its latest rewrite to ...

President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders Tuesday to revamp the federal procurement and contracting processes, part of the administration’s sweeping takedown of government regulations.

The general idea of the FAR reforms is return to the basics of the 1994 Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act and the Clinger-Cohen era. “Commercial item acquisitions were governed by far fewer ...

Led by OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy, "the FAR Council will rewrite the FAR in plain English, eliminate non-statutory and duplicative regulations, remove DEI [diversity, equity and ...

OFPP and the FAR Council have unveiled changes and started issuing class deviations related to four parts of the rulebook so far: Part 1, which describes the federal acquisition regulation system ...

The Federal Acquisition Regulation system was established in the early 1980s to provide a uniform system of procurement for U.S. executive agencies.

A new version of Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 10 removes prescriptive requirements and adds a "practitioner album" with the goal of streamlining research processes.

The first set of changes focus on Part 1, which describes the federal acquisition regulation system; Part 34, which covers major system acquisitions; and Part 52, which covers solicitation ...

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council published on August 3, 2023, a proposed “Sustainable Procurement” rule that reorganizes FAR Part 23 for clarity, moves subparts unrelated to ...

The general idea of the FAR reforms is return to the basics of the 1994 Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act and the Clinger-Cohen era. “Commercial item acquisitions were governed by far fewer ...