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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Government procurement regulators are tweaking the numbers on the simplified acquisition threshold, making it easier for agencies to make some purchases without going through burdensome procedures.

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 ...