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Three FAR Council proposed rules published Sept. 18 would let contracting officers narrow competitive ranges, negotiate with one offeror at a time, buy construction as a commercial service and pick contract types more freely. Comments are due Oct. 19, 2026.
Read the story →AbilityOne Commission Directive 27-01 makes TAA compliance mandatory for AbilityOne products on GSA schedules and BPAs from Nov. 12, 2026, requires country-of-origin certification for new items and price changes, and follows GSA's removal of 244 Chinese products.
A GSA proposed rule would move utility-services buying procedures from FAR part 41 into a new GSAR part 541, require most agencies to contact GSA first, and steer orders toward GSA areawide contracts. Comments are due Nov. 4, 2026.
GSA finalized XTec's $237.6M ceiling award to rebuild USAccess, the PIV badge service for 100+ agencies, after protests by IDEMIA and incumbent Peraton. The deal shifts the program to government-owned infrastructure with performance through June 2036.
GSA's final LLM data clause takes effect Oct. 19 with self-deleting carve-outs and limited flowdown, but contractors selling LLM tools still face 72-hour violation notices, 120-day disclosures, a ban on training with government data and certified deletion of fine-tuned weights at closeout.
Enterprise Technology Solutions and two principals will pay $2.25 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that the IT contractor won 150+ set-aside awards with false HUBZone and women-owned claims while operating from Pakistan. Whistleblower Kyle Harris gets $337,500.
A GAO report finds federal awards generally do not require beneficial-ownership disclosure, leaving hundreds of billions exposed to shell-company and pass-through fraud while the Section 885 contractor ownership database waits on FAR Case 2021-005.
NASA selected 16 companies, seven of them Alaska Native or tribal subsidiaries, for $1.4 billion in Enterprise Logistics Support Services BPAs placed on GSA's OASIS+, covering property management, transportation, disposal, export control and flight hardware support for up to 8.5 years.
SAIC won a $742 million, five-year Alliant 2 recompete task order to support CBP systems that assess security risk from travelers and cargo, running Sept. 15, 2026 through Sept. 14, 2031.
GAO-26-108174 finds federal awards generally don't require beneficial-owner disclosure, FinCEN's registry now exempts about 99 percent of formerly covered entities, and the FAR rule mandated in 2021 has a drafting deadline extended to at least September 2026.
GSA Schedules, GWACs, and open-market solicitations get to the same buyer through very different doors. A framework for deciding which path fits a given requirement, built from FAR 8.4 ordering rules, GSA's own GWAC program pages, and the competition thresholds that govern each route.
Accenture Federal Services beat four rivals for a five-year, $821M task order to integrate the Pentagon's War Data Platform, CDAO's post-Advana data foundation for agentic AI, awarded via GSA's Alliant 2 vehicle.
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