Regulations
April 16, 2025
GSA, OMB launch deregulation recommendations initiative
WASHINGTON — Recently, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced a first of its kind initiative to allow the public to submit ideas for ending existing rules and regulations through an online form on Regulations.gov.
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April 16, 2025
Contractor remedies amid overhaul of federal spending
A February 11, 2025 Executive Order (EO) and a February 26, 2025 Trump Administration memorandum aimed to transform the federal government’s contract, grant, and loan spending.
The EO implementing the Department of Government Efficiency’s cost efficiency initiative, and the guidance that followed, required a sweeping review of “all existing covered contracts and grants,” as well as a comprehensive review of their contracting policies, procedures, and personnel over a 30-day period that ended on March 28, 2025.
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April 14, 2025
Where in Federal Contracting is BACK!
Welcome to the new WIFCON.com
The WIFCON forum, blog topics, and contracting updates including federal contracting regulations, the contract award process, pricing, administration, and subcontract management. We facilitate knowledge sharing and problem-solving within the FAR contracting community.
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March 24, 2025
GAO Sustains Protest Over Agency’s Failure to Conduct Price Risk Analysis Under DFARS 252.204-7024
In the recent MicroTechnologies LLC and SMS Data Products Group, Inc. decisions, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained protests challenging the Agency’s failure to perform the required price risk analysis under DFARS 252.204-7024. These cases mark the first time the GAO has addressed the application of the relatively new DFARS provision.
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March 10, 2025
Understanding the Proposed Updates to Organizational
Conflict of Interest Rules
On January 15, the Department of Defense, GSA, and NASA published proposed rules that would implement the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act. The Act was enacted on December 27, 2022.
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March 26, 2024
Modifications to DoD Mentor-Protégé Program
Effective March 26, 2024. DoD is issuing a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement a section of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 that permanently authorizes and modifies the DoD Mentor-Protégé Program. (DFARS Case 2023-D011). Federal Register :: Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: DoD Mentor-Protégé Program (DFARS Case 2023-D011)
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