Last month, the SBA Office of Hearing and Appeals (“OHA”) issued a decision which has clarified that, as in the past, for procurements conducted under simplified acquisition procedures, offerors who ...

Not being included, or being purposely excluded, may remind some of adolescence, and may remind others of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) simplified acquisition procedures. The recent ...

Simplified acquisition procedures for smaller purchases have returned to the contracting officer's toolbox. (GSA image) One of the products of the procurement reform efforts of the 1990's was ...

In particular, this rulemaking revises the VAAR concerning Acquisition of Commercial Items and Simplified Acquisition Procedures, and affected parts Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses, and ...

Congress should think twice before giving agencies permanent authority to bypass certain procurement rules on small and medium-sized purchases, according to the General Accounting Office. In a new ...