GovConDash Weekly · September 21, 2026
The week of September 14, 2026 to September 20, 2026
What changed in government contracting this week. Every item links to its source: the memo, the Federal Register, eCFR or the decision itself.
This Week in GovCon
- Comment deadlines: 4 proposed rules published this week. The next comment deadline is September 21, 2026 (today): Small Business Size Standards: Revised Size Standards Methodology.
- Audit guidance: DCAA reissued 4 Contract Audit Manual chapters (1, 4, 8 and 12).
- GAO protests: GAO released 1 protest decision.
- Courts and boards: New decisions: Court of Federal Claims 2.
- Enforcement: 2 False Claims Act releases, with $25,499,950 in stated recoveries. The largest: $25,000,000, Accenture.
Proposed rules for every contractor(6)
Rules that would change the FAR, DFARS, the Cost Accounting Standards or the SBA contracting programs, soonest comment deadline first. Rules scoped to one industry are left out.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or Agency) advises the public that it has revised its white paper explaining how it establishes, reviews, and modifies small business size standards. The revised white paper provides a detailed description of SBA's size standards...
Small Business Administration · Amends 13 CFR 121 · Published August 20, 2026
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or the Agency) is proposing new size standards for 338 industry groups and industries. The new size standards are designed to better reflect the nature of the markets in which small businesses compete. SBA seeks comments on its...
Small Business Administration · Amends 13 CFR 121 · Published August 20, 2026
OFPP, DoD, GSA, and NASA (collectively referred to as the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council or FAR Council) are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement Executive Order (E.O.) 14275, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement. The E.O...
Management and Budget Office, Federal Procurement Policy Office, Defense Department, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Amends 48 CFR 14, 28, 36, 52 · Published September 18, 2026
OFPP, DoD, GSA, and NASA (collectively referred to as the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council or FAR Council) are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement Executive Order (E.O.) 14275, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement. The E.O...
Management and Budget Office, Federal Procurement Policy Office, Defense Department, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Amends 48 CFR 9, 27, 47, 52 · Published September 18, 2026
OFPP, DoD, GSA, and NASA (collectively referred to as the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council or FAR Council) are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement Executive Order (E.O.) 14275, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement. The E.O...
Management and Budget Office, Federal Procurement Policy Office, Defense Department, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Amends 48 CFR 16, 17, 35, 52 · Published September 18, 2026
OFPP, DoD, GSA, and NASA (collectively referred to as the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council or FAR Council) are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement Executive Order (E.O.) 14275, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement. The E.O...
Management and Budget Office, Federal Procurement Policy Office, Defense Department, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Amends 48 CFR 8, 12, 13, 15, 38, 44, 51, 52 · Published September 18, 2026
DCAA updates(4)
Everything DCAA changed this week: new Memoranda for Regional Directors (MRDs), and any Contract Audit Manual (CAM) chapter, audit program or Selected Areas of Cost Guidebook chapter it reissued, with the version each one replaces.
Contract Audit Manual (4)
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Contract Audit
Revised September 18, 2026 · replaces the July 16, 2026 revision
- Chapter 4: General Audit Requirements
Revised September 18, 2026 · replaces the September 30, 2025 revision
- Chapter 8: Cost Accounting Standards
Revised September 17, 2026 · replaces the February 24, 2026 revision
- Chapter 12: Auditing Contract Terminations Delay/Disruption and Other Requests for Equitable Adjustment or Claims
Revised September 18, 2026 · replaces the February 23, 2026 revision
Case law this week(3)
The most authoritative forum first: the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims, GAO, the boards of contract appeals and SBA OHA. Within each, decisions that granted relief lead.
Court of Federal Claims (2 new)
Decided September 10, 2026 · 25-928 · Bid protest
Decided September 10, 2026 · 26-32 · Bid protest
GAO bid protests (1 new)
Decided September 10, 2026 · B-424508.2,B-424509.2,B-424510.2
The requester contends that our decision erroneously concluded that submitting copies of protests filed with our Office to the contracting officers cannot constitute agency-level protests under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) section 33.103, and therefore erred in dismissing the protests as untimely filed.
Timeliness
False Claims Act enforcement(2)
Department of Justice releases that involve federal procurement, largest recovery first.
$25,000,000 · Accenture · Published September 14, 2026
$499,950 · University of Hawaii · Published September 15, 2026