[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 211 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 61042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22147]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

48 CFR Chapter 1

[Docket No. FAR-2021-0051, Sequence No. 5]


Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 
2022-01; Small Entity Compliance Guide

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration 
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Small Entity Compliance Guide.

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SUMMARY: This document is issued under the joint authority of DoD, GSA, 
and NASA. This Small Entity Compliance Guide has been prepared in 
accordance with section 212 of the Small Business Regulatory 
Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996. It consists of a summary of the rules 
appearing in Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2022-01, which amends 
the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). Interested parties may obtain 
further information regarding these rules by referring to FAC 2022-01, 
which precedes this document.

DATES: November 4, 2021.

ADDRESSES: The FAC, including the SECG, is available via the internet 
at https://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For clarification of content, contact 
the analyst whose name appears in the table below. Please cite FAC 
2022-01 and the FAR Case number. For information pertaining to status 
or publication schedules, contact the Regulatory Secretariat Division 
at 202-501-4755 or [email protected]. An asterisk (*) next to a rule 
indicates that a regulatory flexibility analysis has been prepared.

                                           Rules Listed in FAC 2022-01
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               Item                           Subject               FAR case                 Analyst
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* I..............................  Revision of Definition of           2018-018  Delgado.
                                    ``Commercial Item''.
* II.............................  Consolidation and                   2019-003  Bowman.
                                    Substantial Bundling.
III..............................  Maximum Award Price for             2021-007  Jackson.
                                    Certain Sole Source
                                    Manufacturing Contracts.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Summaries for each FAR rule follow. For the 
actual revisions and/or amendments made by these FAR rules, refer to 
the specific item numbers and subjects set forth in the documents 
following these item summaries. FAC 2022-01 amends the FAR as follows:

Item I--Revision of Definition of ``Commercial Item'' (FAR Case 2018-
018)

    This final rule removes the definition of ``commercial item'' and 
replaces it with the definitions of ``commercial product'' and 
``commercial service''. The rule makes numerous conforming changes 
throughout the FAR. The rule implements section 836 of the John S. 
McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Pub. L. 
115-232). This final rule will not have a significant economic impact 
on a substantial number of small entities.

Item II--Consolidation and Substantial Bundling (FAR Case 2019-003)

    This final rule amends the FAR to implement section 863 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, as implemented 
in the Small Business Administration (SBA) final rule published at 84 
FR 65647 on November 29, 2019. Section 863 requires publication of 
public notices of determinations for consolidation and substantial 
bundling of contract requirements. Specifically, section 863 requires 
the head of an agency to publish a notice on a public website within 7 
days of making the determination that an acquisition plan involves a 
substantial bundling of contract requirements. Section 863 also 
requires the Senior Procurement Executive or Chief Acquisition Officer 
to publish a notice on a public website that consolidation of contract 
requirements is necessary and justified. In both cases, the agency may 
not issue the solicitation any earlier than 7 days after publication of 
the notices. The agency must also publish the justification along with 
the solicitation.

Item III--Maximum Award Price for Certain Sole Source Manufacturing 
Contracts (FAR Case 2021-007)

    This final rule amends the FAR to implement section 864 of the 
William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2021 (Pub. L. 116-283, January 1, 2021). Section 864 amends 
the Small Business Act to modify the maximum award price for 
manufacturing contracts to $7 million for 8(a) program participants, 
Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) program participants, Historically 
Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small business concerns, and 
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) concerns.

William F. Clark,
Director, Office of Government-wide Acquisition Policy, Office of 
Acquisition Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.
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