Government Contracting Updates & Trends
Hello everyone, so far Canada (where I was born) is not the 51 st state. In other news: GSA Consolidation Executive Order 14240 mandates that GSA submit a plan today, June 18, 2025, to centralize procurement of common goods, services and GWACS for IT. This was supposed to be a dance of agencies proposing how to consolidate procurements within GSA and GSA developing a plan for how that will be implemented. So far no one has agreed on what kind of DJ will host the event and who is bringing the snacks. FAR Redo So far (excuse the pun), nothing major has been done under the FAR redo. The Trump administration issued the third set of changes under the “Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Overhaul,” revamping FAR Part 18 (Emergency Acquisitions), Part 39 (Information and Communication Technology), and Part 43 (Contract Modifications) through proposed class deviations. Those changes have not been signif...