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NCR-THE OVERHAUL OF FAR PART 15 - A REVIE.pdf
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From The Nash & Cibinic Report, November 2025 "The Revolutionary Overhaul of FAR Part 15: A Review" The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul of Part 15.pdf
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@Anthony03 By HSE are you referring to Health, Safety and Environment?
What are the advantages?
This thread is locked due to negative comments made about a named public official in a response to the opening post. Such comments are not permissible. Appropriate inquiries and comments relate to contracting concepts and procedures.
A new article from The Nash & Cibinic Report, August 2025, about risk management in the revolutionary FAR overhaul has been posted to the Bulletin Board: https://www.wifcon.com/discussion/uploads/pages_media/NCR_39_8_46_wbox.pdf?_cb=1753899926
A new article from The Nash & Cibinic Report, June 2025, about the futility of FAR reform has been posted to the Bulletin Board: https://www.wifcon.com/discussion/uploads/pages_media/NCR_39_6_31wbox.pdf?_cb=1748886086
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A new article from The Nash & Cibinic Report, May 2025, about the FAR reform project has been posted to the Bulletin Board: https://www.wifcon.com/discussion/uploads/pages_media/NCR_39_5_26.pdf?_cb=1746558027
Wifcon guests, including Ralph Nash, Jim Nagle, Don Mansfield, and Vern Edwards, discuss the White House's executive order on "Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement."
@overmyhead Please do not use abbreviations like FCL. We presume FCL means facility clearance. If that is not the case, please tell us what it means. The answers to your questions are: No. Read your contract. It should include the clause at FAR 52.216-22, Indefinite Quantity (OCT 1995). Read paragraph (d). Ask your customer if they can and will. Ask your customer.
In light of recent comments in this discussion, a pdf of OMB Circular A-109 has been posted to the Wifcon Bulletin Board.
In our September issue, Ralph wrote about the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals' decision in the matter of Red Bobtail Transportation, ASBCA 63771, 24-1 BCA ¶ 38,591, 2024 WL 2873960. See Performance Incentives: Follow the Rules, 38 NCRNL ¶ 50. That case involved a firm-fixed-price “performance-based” contract for transportation services in Afghanistan that was awarded in 2014 by the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM). Please Read: Postscript: Following The Rules About Performance Incentives
I found the SCOTUS case too. UNITED STATES ex rel. POLANSKY v. EXECUTIVE HEALTH RESOURCES, INC.
I found this blurb a few moments ago. Case No: 8:19-cv-01236-KKM-SPF
You may also want to read: Truth, Lies, and O-rings.
In the July issue, we told of a U.S. Army procurement of grounds maintenance services in which the agency conducted a simplified acquisition for commercial services, set aside for small businesses, to mow less than two acres of grass 18 times a year for one year with four one-year extension options. The work will include edging, trimming, pruning, and general cleanup at a small Army facility in suburban Virginia. We told how in order to do that the Army issued a 90-page Request for Quotations containing 105 Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense FAR Supplement solicitation provisions and contract clauses and incorporating a 525-page Army grounds maintenance regulation as the standard of quality. See Simplification, Reform, Streamlining, and Innovation: The Government Is Immune to Those Things, 38 NCRNL ¶ 44. Please read: Postscript: Simplification, Reform, Streamlining by Vernon J. Edwards
This article appeared in the September 2024 issue of Contract Management magazine, published by the National Contract Management Association. Used with permission. Much is being said these days about the importance of lifelong (continuous) learning in the contracting profession. That’s a good thing, but what does it mean, and how should one go about it? Please Read: Lifelong Learning, Cultivated Curiosity and Self-Interrogation - By Vernon J. Edwards