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The Benefits of Commercial Item Contracting
On April 9, 2025, the Center for Indian Country Development published an interesting report on the impact of contract consolidation/bundling by the federal government on Native-owned government contractors. In Executive...more
Yogi Berra once said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Those who have spent a career in federal procurement have seen many cycles of well-intentioned procurement reform instead create a system that is more complex,...more
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on federal procurement titled "Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement" on April 15, 2025 (the April 15 EO), directing that the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) be...more
The Trump administration has issued two Executive Orders very recently that will drive changes in federal procurement and defense procurement and impact federal contractors in the very near future. The Executive Orders are...more
As both chambers of Congress worked to pass their versions of the budget resolution, tax writers on the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee, along with their respective leadership, had to decide...more
President Donald Trump on April 9, 2025, signed three executive orders (EOs) focused on accelerating defense procurement, improving foreign defense sales between the U.S. and its allies and revitalizing American maritime...more
On the heels of the Trump administration’s new guidance on federal agency AI use and procurement, the administration has taken another step aimed at accelerating how the government works with the private sector—this time...more
The Trump Administration issued another Executive Order impacting federal procurement—this one aimed at consolidating government purchasing at the General Services Administration (GSA). Released March 20, 2025, “Eliminating...more
On March 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to consolidate federal procurement under the General Services Administration (GSA). Framed as an effort to eliminate waste and save taxpayer dollars, the order...more
The Trump Administration on March 20, 2025, issued an executive order titled "Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement" (the EO), which will result in a major change in the landscape of...more
The Trump Administration issued an executive order (EO) on Feb. 26, 2025, implementing the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) "cost efficiency initiative" that seeks to transform federal spending on contracts,...more
The Trump Administration will most likely move quickly to align the federal government’s priorities with the President’s own. While the Administration has not detailed all of its plans for government contracting/procurement,...more
With former President Donald Trump winning election to be the 47th president of the United States, Americans should expect sweeping policy and regulatory changes, including in the federal procurement space. Based on Trump's...more
In 2024 the White House continues to place an emphasis on the U.S. Government’s longstanding domestic purchase preferences. The latest update implementing the domestic purchase preference is the Department of Defense’s Final...more
On June 9, 2023, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) issued a proposed rule to address domestic preferences – the Buy American Act – in DoD procurements. The proposed rule follows updates to the Federal Acquisition Regulation...more
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently issued a proposed amendment to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) that tightens “Buy American” thresholds for DoD procurements....more
On January 17, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice announced that it had obtained another in a recent string of guilty pleas as a result of investigations into government contracting by the Procurement...more
The Fifth Circuit in Louisiana v. Biden upheld a Louisiana federal district court in blocking President Biden’s vaccine mandate on December 19, 2022, in a 2-1 decision, prohibiting the Biden administration from enforcing the...more
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (the “FAR Council”) currently is considering amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) that would elevate the consideration of climate-related risks in Federal...more
The president’s executive order aims to use the US government’s procurement power to achieve “carbon pollution-free electricity” by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. On December 8, 2021, President Biden issued an...more
On December 27, 2021, President Biden signed the FY22 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law, authorizing more than $700 billion in defense spending. The NDAA also contains several provisions that shape federal...more
President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs through Federal Sustainability on Dec. 8, 2021, emphasizing the federal government's role and initiative "[a]s the single largest...more
The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that President Biden signed on November 15, expands the provisions supporting American manufacturing through federal procurement. The IIJA statutory directives...more
U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove of the Eastern District of Kentucky on Nov. 30, 2021, issued a preliminary injunction, halting the government's enforcement of the federal contractor vaccine mandate on federal...more
On July 30, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) published a proposed rule that would increase domestic content requirements for federal government procurements that are subject to the Buy American Act...more