Acquisition regulations

GSA is responsible for two acquisition regulations.

Federal Acquisition Regulation

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) was established to codify uniform policies for acquisition of supplies and services by executive agencies. It is issued and maintained jointly, pursuant to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) Reauthorization Act, under the statutory authorities granted to the Secretary of Defense, Administrator of General Services and the Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Statutory authorities to issue and revise the FAR have been delegated to the Procurement Executives in Department of Defense (DoD), GSA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The Federal Acquisition Policy Division writes and revises the FAR to implement laws, executive orders, other agency regulations, and governmentwide policies. The Division coordinates with the Office Federal Procurement Policy, other agencies, and various stakeholders in a highly collaborative and deliberative process to support the maintenance of the FAR and fulfill public policy objectives.

Open FAR cases

Information on FAR cases currently under development is available in the Open FAR Case Status Report.

GSA Acquisition Manual

The GSA Acquisition Manual (GSAM) incorporates the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) as well as internal agency acquisition policy on how to acquire goods and services. GSAR material is shaded. The shading helps users to distinguish and identify those parts that are regulatory from those that apply internally to GSA.

The General Services Acquisition Policy Division writes and revises the GSAM. The Division establishes and implements acquisition policies for the agency to fulfill immediate and long term acquisition goals and priorities.

Open GSAM cases

Last updated: 03/06/2025

Case number & title	Synopsis	Est. completion	Status
2020-G534 889 Extension to Leases & CSOs	Extension of Section 889 FY19 NDAA requirements to leases and commercial solution openings (CSO). Incorporates GSA Class Deviation (CD) 2020-15.	FY26 Q4	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2021-G505 Update Lease FAR & GSAR Clauses	Update FAR/GSAR Provisions and Clauses Tables 570.7 and Forms 570.8.	FY26 Q1	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2021-G520 Economic Price Adjustment for Deregulated Utilities	(GSAR Case) Incorporate an agency specific economic price adjustments clause for deregulated utilities (see FAR 16.203-4(a)(2) and CD-2020-02).	FY26 Q4	1 - Initiating Case
2021-G522 Identification of Leased Space Beneficial Owner	Implementation of requirements to identify beneficial owner information for lease contracts, from Secure Federal LEASEs Act.	FY26 Q4	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2021-G527 Identification of Leased Space Immediate & Highest-Level Owner	Implementation of requirements to identify immediate and highest-level owner information for lease contracts, including financing entitites, from Secure Federal LEASEs Act.	FY26 Q4	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2021-G530 Lease Labor Requirements	To extend the requirements of Executive Order (E.O.) 14026 (Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors to $15) and Department of Labor regulations (29 CFR part 23) to lease acquisitions by requiring inclusion of the related Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause.	FY26 Q1	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2022-G503 PIV Standards of Conducting Due Diligence	To provide additional guidance at 504.1370 on the process of corresponding with contract employees to ensure due diligence is performed to retrieve PIV cards.	FY25 Q4	6 - Routing Case for Internal Approval
2023-G502 Lease Forms Update	Specific to Leasing, update GSAM Clause Matrix at 552.3 and GSAM Form Matrix at 553.3.	FY26 Q4	1 - Initiating Case
2023-G507 Update TDR Elements for FSS and Non-FSS	To update and clarify TDR elements for FSS and Non-FSS contracts.	FY26 Q1	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2025-G501 Reducing PFAS through Schedules	GSA is exploring regulation that will encourage both offerors and buyers to procure products with an ecolabel that indicates a reduction or absence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) chemicals.	FY26 Q4	1 - Initiating Case
2025-G502 Cancellation Criteria for Non-FSS IDIQs	To provide cancellation criteria and clause for non-Federal Supply Schedule IDIQs.	FY26 Q1	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2025-G503 MAS Contractor Performance Information	GSA is exploring the ability to post Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contractor performance information on GSA eCommerce platforms such as GSA Advantage.	FY26 Q4	1 - Initiating Case
2025-G5XX Lease Tax Adjustment Clause	To update the Lease Tax Adjustment Clause currently found in the GSA Lease L100 Template at Section 2.07, and related guidance.	FY26 Q1	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2025-G5XX Acquisition 360 Implementation	To provide implementation guidance for Acquisition 360 requirements.	FY26 Q4	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2025-G5XX Cat Mgmt Guidance Updates for Small Business	To provide guidance for new Tier 2 - Socioeconomic Small Business (SB) SUM measures at GSAM 507.71, giving agencies automatic credit towards agency category management goals.	FY26 Q4	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2025-G5XX Non-Commercial Item Determination	To provide more detailed analysis/rationale when making a non-commercial determination.	FY26 Q1	1 - Initiating Case
2025-G5XX Revise “Region” References	To update regional references throughout the GSAM.	FY25 Q4	1 - Initiating Case
2025-G5XX Update GSA IT Requirements Guidance	To update GSA IT requirements guidance at 511.171 regarding authorized resellers, software and hardware, and CIO coordination.	FY26 Q1	2 - Drafting Case Documents
2025-G5XX Establish New GSAM Part 540	Mirror the establishment of the new FAR Part 40 for Information Security and Supply Chain Security in the GSAM.	FY26 Q4	1 - Initiating Case
2025-G5XX Reorganize FSS Guidance	To remove internal GSA guidance at 538.2 regarding Federal Supply Schedules from the GSAR to the GSAM and reorganize provisions within the GSAM.	FY26 Q1	3 - Internal Acquisition Workforce Review
2025-G5XX Remove Duplicative Construction Option Guidance	To remove language in GSAR 536.270-1 and 536.270-4 that directly duplicates language in FAR 17.2.	FY26 Q1	2 - Drafting Case Documents

Status key

1 - Initiating Case, 2 - Drafting Case Documents, 3 - Internal Acquisition Workforce Review, 4 - Internal Legal Review, 5 - Updating Case Documents, 6 - Routing Case for Internal Approval, 7 - External Stakeholder Review, 8 - Out for Public Comment, 9 - Publishing Case