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Legislative proposals transmitted to Congress by OMB in support of the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) can be viewed in this document [PDF - 2 MB]. A summary of the proposals is below.
Title | Synopsis |
|---|---|
| (1) Streamlining Compliance and Competition Procedural Requirements | This proposal would increase the Simplified Acquisition Threshold to $500,000 for all acquisitions. For commercial products and services, the threshold would be further raised in phases to $10 million over 5 years; the limits for Special Simplified Procedures would be raised from $5 million to $50 million over the same period in order to streamline compliance and competition procedural requirements and accelerate time to mission. |
| (2) Common Sense Procedures for Small Purchases | This proposal would increase the Micro-purchase Threshold in phases from $15,000 to $100,000 over 5 years to eliminate government-unique barriers for the smallest buys while maintaining application of the Buy American Act to ensure domestic sourcing remains front-of-mind for buyers and sellers. |
| (3) Ensuring Federal Purchasing Efficiency | This proposal would shift the re-calculation period for inflation-related automatic adjustments for acquisition-related threshold increases from once every five years to once every three years. This will ensure Federal acquisition processes better align with purchasing power. |
| (4) Acquisition Workforce Training Investments | This proposal would increase the share of fees paid from certain interagency contracts to the Acquisition Workforce Training Fund to increase funds available for training the acquisition workforce. |
| (5) Improvements To Task and Delivery Order Contract Procedures | This proposal would make a technical correction to a provision in the FYI 9 NDAA that will promote task order level competition on multiple award contracts and enable greater savings for the taxpayer. |
| (6) Promoting Small Business Innovation | This proposal would facilitate assisted acquisition services to support Small Business Innovator Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts. |
| (7) Providing Best Value Through the Multiple Award Schedule Program | This proposal would update the standard for the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedules program to seek out the best value for the Government, rather than the “lowest overall cost alternative,” which may not account for administration costs, product quality, delivery time, and other factors. |
| (8) Increasing Efficiency with Acquisition Threshold Parity | This proposal increases dollar thresholds in title 41 to match increases made to title 10 thresholds by the FY 26 NDAA relating to the applicability of procurement procedures for major systems; the use of procedures other than competitive procedures; and submissions of cost or pricing data. |
| (9) Conforming Increase of Limitation on Fee Architectural and Engineer (A&E) Services | This proposal raises the civilian fee cap for A&E services to match the 10% cap applicable to the Department of War (DOW). |
| (10) Consumption-Based Solutions Parity | This proposal would extend consumption-based solutions acquisition procedures authorized under title 10 by section 1825 of the FY 2026 NDAA to other executive agencies under title 41. |
| (11) Expanded Authority to Withhold Contract Payments during Period of Pendency of a Bid Protest | This proposal aligns defense and civilian agencies on handling of protests by incumbents by providing to civilian agencies the same mechanism to discourage the strategic use of protests solely to extend existing contracts, while maintaining the integrity of the bid protest system for contractors with valid legal and factual challenges to agency procurement decisions. |
| (12) Task and Delivery Order Protest Parity | This proposal seeks to standardize the task and delivery order protest dollar threshold for defense and civilian agencies by raising the civilian agency threshold from $10 million to equal the defense agency threshold at $35 million. |
| (13) Authority to Acquire Commercial Products, Commercial Services, or Non-developmental Items Using General Solicitation Competitive Procedures | This proposal would grant the General Services Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Central Intelligence Agency permanent Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO) Authority. This would make permanent pilot authority first granted to GSA and DHS in the Fl 7 NDAA and would mirror authority granted to DOW in 2022. |
| (14) NASA Authority for Follow-on Production Service Contracts Following Other Transaction Prototype Projects | This proposal would allow NASA to award follow-on Other Transaction Authority contracts for products and services to more quickly and more cost effectively transition capabilities that have been proven as a prototype project. |
| (15) Additional Clarifications for Payments for Commercial Products and Commercial Services | This proposal would extend the advance payment authority for commercial products and services provided under title 10 by section 1827 of the FY 26 NDAA to other executive agencies under title 41. |
| (16) Common Sense Fees for the Integrated Award Environment | This proposal would allow GSA to collect user fees, capped at $50 per year, for non-Federal users maintaining registration in the Integrated Award Environment. These small fees would close long-standing shortfalls in the cost of operating this important government-wide resource that supports a robust Federal contracting base. |
| (17) Repeal of Restrictions on Membership of the Cost Accounting Standards Board | This proposal restores DOW’s ability to identify the most qualified representative to serve on the Cost Accounting Standards Board. |
| (18) Service Contract Inventory Burden Reduction | This proposal would eliminate two reporting requirements for inventories of service contracts that require annual analysis for 80,000 total contracts, but has provided little to no value in return. This change would substantially reduce a bureaucratic burden on agencies and allow a better allocation of oversight staff. |
| (19) Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act Burden Reduction | This proposal amends the FAIR Act reporting to eliminate certain outdated and burdensome requirements, while still requiring annual public reporting by agencies. |
| (20) Sudan Waivers Report Transfer | This proposal would shift the Congressional reporting requirement for Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act waivers from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to individual agencies. Due to the rarity of waivers, individual reporting would be more cost effective and efficient than the current biannual collection and reporting efforts by OMB. |
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