FAR Council Releases Modifications to Three Sections | Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

The FAR Council is undertaking a systematic approach to revising the FARs. On Friday, June 13, 2025, it launched its revisions to FAR Part 18 – Emergency Acquisitions, FAR Part 39 – Acquisition of Information and Communication Technology, and FAR Part 43 – Contract Modifications.

Listed here are the next redlines displaying the additions and deletions to every of those three sections of the FAR:

FAR Part 18 – Emergency Acquisitions

• • The adjustments to FAR Half 18 consist primarily of the deletion of provisions that reference different elements of the FAR, together with people who referenced award of contracts beneath the HUBZone and eight(a) Applications.
  • As a substitute, the revised FAR Half 18 now states:

Contracting officers ought to use the flexibilities included within the FAR to reply shortly for an emergency or pressing want. See the record of FAR flexibilities out there at https://acquisition.gov/emergency-procurement

FAR Part 39 – Acquisition of Information and Communication Technology,

• • Renamed and broadened to cowl “Info and Communication Expertise (ICT)” as a substitute of simply “Info Expertise.”
  • Added language stating that this FAR Half “emphasizes methods that promote sooner acquisition and safe deployment of expertise that’s new or rising.”
  • Reorganized FAR Half 39 to incorporate ICT accessibility beneath Subpart 39.104.
  • Offered new threat and modular contracting steering:
    • Modular contracting strongly inspired for each main and non-major IT programs.
    • Added give attention to managing speedy technological change and threat (together with use of expertise refresh strategies).

FAR Part 43 – Contract Modifications

• • Eradicated the regulation provisions that contracting places of work and officers shall:
    • “set up suspense programs ample to make sure correct identification and immediate definitization of unpriced change orders;” and
    • “be certain that a value evaluation is made, if applicable, beneath 15.404-1(c) and shall contemplate the contractor’s segregable prices of the change, if out there.”
  • The revised rules additionally get rid of the steering relating to discipline pricing guides.