HHS Acquisition Regulation (HHSAR) Overhaul Initiative

Background:

On April 15, 2025, EO 14275, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement, was signed. Section 2 of the EO establishes the policy that the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) “should only contain provisions required by statute or essential to sound procurement, and any FAR provisions that do not advance these objectives should be removed.”

The FAR is being updated to:

• Remove language that is not required by statute
• Remove duplicative or outdated language
• Clarify or provide more plain language
• Revise language for the new FAR framework
• Retain language necessary for governmentwide acquisition standards.

This project is referred to as the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul (RFO) initiative. The RFO initiative is led by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council). The FAR Council will issue model deviation guidance on a rolling basis by FAR part and will publish these updates on the FAR Overhaul page of Acquisition.gov.

HHS Action Plan:

• HHS FAR CDs are posted at FAR Parts and Agency Deviations.

After HHS adopts the FAR model deviation text, HHS will follow up with HHSAR and HHSAM updates, as appropriate.

• RFO HHSAR CDs will be listed in the table below.
• Other active HHSAR CDs are posted at https://www.hhs.gov/grants-contracts/contracts/contract-policies-regulations/index.html. The table below will indicate HHSAR parts that are currently deviated by other active HHSAR CDs.

Please continue to monitor this page for updates.