Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement

This EO aims to remove barriers for federal procurement and remove all FAR provisions not required by statute or essential to sound procurement. Within 180 days, the Administrator of the Office of Federal Public Procurement Policy (“Administrator”) shall take appropriate actions to amend the FAR to ensure that it contains only provisions that are required by statute or that are otherwise necessary to support simplicity and usability, strengthen the efficacy of the procurement system, or protect economic or national security interests. Within 15 days of the date of this order, each agency exercising procurement authority pursuant to the FAR shall designate a senior acquisition or procurement official to work with the Administrator and the FAR Council to ensure agency alignment with FAR reform and to provide recommendations regarding any agency-specific supplemental regulations to the FAR. The Administrator shall consider adding 4-year sunset provisions on the FAR provisions to be removed or reworked until this EO.

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Immediate, 20, 180.

Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Administrator, shall issue a memorandum to agencies that provides guidance regarding implementation of this order (20 days).

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