Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts : Office of the President of the United States , April 16 , 2025
Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts : Office of the President of the United States , April 16 , 2025
From the document: "By the authority vested in me as President, by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. A major goal of my Administration is to eliminate unnecessary and imprudent expenditures of taxpayer dollars. Previous administrations evaded statutory preferences and abused the Federal contracting framework by procuring custom products and services where a suitable or superior commercial solution would have fulfilled the Government’s needs. Doing so simultaneously stifled the integration of commercially available innovations in Government procurement while increasing Government spending, resulting in avoidable waste and costly delays to the detriment of American taxpayers. My Administration will enforce existing laws directing the Federal Government to utilize, to the maximum extent practicable, the competitive marketplace and the innovations of private enterprise to provide better, more cost-effective services to taxpayers.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of my Administration that agencies shall procure commercially available products and services, including those that can be modified to fill agencies’ needs, to the maximum extent practicable, including pursuant to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-355, as amended) (FASA).
Authors - Trump, Donald J.
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