Koprince McCall Pottroff – In Spring 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14271, titled “Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions for Federal Contracts,” which informed agencies that they should emphasize procuring commercially available products and services as much as possible. Fast forward a year later, and it would seem the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) is not seeing the push for utilizing commercially available products and services they expected among federal agencies. So a few weeks ago, almost a year to the day of President Trump’s 2025 Executive Order, OMB issued a memo to federal agencies driving home the points of President Trump’s 2025 Executive Order and placing reporting requirements on agencies, which could affect the direction of future possible procurements across federal contracting.
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OMB Continues Push for Commercial Products and Services
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