This is great, and how I feel sometimes reading the FAR.

Go to it FAR Council.  The future change to this FAC--removing the youtube clip--will provide another opportunity for me to post a FAR change.   I've been waiting since January.

Maybe the FAR Council delayed the issuance of this FAC to make it a seasonal change.   

I heard they recently hired a former Disney designer/artist known for their hidden images and Easter Eggs.

Weren't the FAR Councils required by Trump's Executive Order to remove two YouTube links before adding a YouTube link?

Sort of makes me look forward to dinner with the family.

Looks like Acquisition.gov is also having trouble with how to interpret FAC 2005-96.  It seems they've backdated all the provision/clause changes to "OCT 2017."  I think something must've been rotten in the Swedish Chef's kitchen.

Maybe they were going for a Reps and Certs tutorial video

This will appear in tomorrow's issue of the Federal Register.

In regard to  FAC 2005-96; FAR Case 2017-015

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Rule document 2017-23590 originally published on pages 51527 through 51531 in the issue of Monday, November 6, 2017, with an extraneous web address inadvertently inserted. The corrected document is published here in its entirety.

A change like that requires public comment. 

Seems to me to be a technical correction that does not require public comment.  On what basis do you assert that this requires public comment?  

6 hours ago, policyguy said:

Seems to me to be a technical correction that does not require public comment.  On what basis do you assert that this requires public comment?  

I base it on 41 U.S.C. 1707(a), which clearly states:

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§1707. Publication of proposed regulations

(a) Covered Policies, Regulations, Procedures, and Forms.-

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30ERequired comment period.-Except as provided in subsection (d), a procurement policy, regulation, procedure, or form (including an amendment or modification thereto) may not take effect until 60 days after it is published for public comment in the Federal Register pursuant to subsection (b) if it-

(A) relates to the expenditure of appropriated funds; and

(B)(i) has a significant effect beyond the internal operating procedures of the agency issuing the policy, regulation, procedure, or form; or

(ii) has a significant cost or administrative impact on contractors or offerors.

 

It seems to me that the FAC reference is certainly afowl of the law.

Ha!  "inadvertently inserted", that's funny.  Refreshing to see someone breech (if only for a moment) the sanctimonious self-serious tone that usually pervades these things to have a little fun.  Too bad the stiffs got to it.  Or maybe I'm being too harsh, maybe the "stiffs" knew about this all along and just agreed to leave the link up for a day or so.  I just hope whoever "inadvertently inserted" this doesn't get in any trouble.