The administration is directing the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to strip the FAR down to provisions “required by statute or essential to sound procurement” within 180 days.
Currently, the FAR makes doing business with the federal government bureaucratic and difficult, the Trump administration said. The White House tied the coming changes to the procurement regulations to its broader efforts to deregulate, as well as the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The cost-cutting unit has touted its push to cancel government contracts, although its record of cancellations and savings has been riddled with inaccuracies.
The order calls for agencies to work with OFPP and the FAR Council on streamlining the FAR, and to also bringing agency supplements in line with the reform effort under the direction of guidance coming within 20 days. Agencies have 15 days to designate someone to work on the effort. There will be deviation and interim guidance to follow until final reform rules for the FAR are published, the order stated.
The executive order also directs that when a new final rule is issued for the FAR, any provisions not required by statute but still deemed necessary will expire after four years, unless the FAR Council renews them. The administrator and FAR Council are also told to consider whether any new, non-statutory FAR provisions issued after the date of the executive order should similarly be given a four-year expiration.
The order follows efforts undertaken by the General Services A ..
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