Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts
Directs federal agencies to prefer off-the-shelf solutions over custom-built alternatives.
Section by Section
What each section does, and how they differ.
Prior administrations procured custom products and services where a suitable commercial solution would have served, stifling commercial innovation and increasing spending; the order commits to using the competitive marketplace to the maximum extent practicable to cut that waste.
Agencies shall procure commercially available products and services, including those that can be modified to meet needs, to the maximum extent practicable, consistent with the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (FASA).
Defines agency, approval authority, contracting officer for order purposes.
Agencies review all open solicitations within 60 days; consolidate non-commercial proposals for approval authority review.
Contracting officers provide approval authorities with market research and price analysis; approval authorities review and OMB Director assesses.
Standard boilerplate: preserves existing agency authority, conditions the order on appropriations, and creates no enforceable private rights.