SmallGovCon Week in Review: May 26-30, 2025

Happy Friday! The sun is shining here in the Midwest and after several days of rain, June is upon us. Time to get the lawn mower started this weekend. We hope you have some fun plans for the summer, other than mowing the lawn, with friends and family.

This week in federal government news, catch up on a potential small business rule of two statute, additional contract-cutting, and GSA becoming a central contracting power player.

• Protecting Small Business Competitions Act of 2025
• Trump’s contract-cutting blitz rattles a once-flourishing DC industry
• Trump administration moves to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard
• GSA has been given more of the government’s contracting authority
• OPM tries again to modernize HR systems with new RFP
• Bluster or brilliance: Browsing the FAR 2.0 rewrite
• DOGE receipts for SBA fall billions short of administrator’s cost-savings claim
• District judge further enjoins Trump’s reductions in force at federal agencies
• Homeland Security cuts off access to ChatGPT and other commercial AI
• Trump team looks to end $37B program designed to help minority business saying it violates the Constitution
• Justice Department Establishes Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
• DoD ends ‘what you did last week’ email, asks civilians for ideas to cut waste
• GAO raises concerns about behavioral health services for veterans from community providers

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