Under the President’s Executive Order, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement, the Federal government is undertaking the first-ever comprehensive overhaul of the FAR.
Led by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council), this initiative will return the FAR to its statutory roots, rewritten in plain language, and remove most non-statutory rules. In addition, non-regulatory buying guides will provide practical strategies grounded in common sense while remaining outside the FAR.
The goal is clear: faster acquisitions, greater competition, and better results.
The FAR Council is issuing model deviation guidance to kickstart FAR streamlining. The guidance, which will be released on a rolling basis by FAR part, will be adopted by agencies until the FAR is formally revised through rulemaking.
As the FAR is streamlined, helpful non-regulatory content will be moved to new Buying Guides, designed to support smarter and faster acquisitions.
