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GovConDash Weekly · October 5, 2026

The week of September 28, 2026 to October 4, 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

  • Executive orders: 3 executive orders published in the Federal Register.
  • Comment deadlines: 6 proposed rules open for comment. The next comment deadline is October 19, 2026 (in 14 days): Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 14, 28, 36, and 52.
  • Audit guidance: DCAA reissued 1 Contract Audit Manual chapter (13) and 1 audit program, and issued 2 new MRDs.
  • GAO protests: GAO released 5 protest decisions: 5 denied.
  • Courts and boards: New decisions: ASBCA 18, CBCA 8.
  • Codified: 17 Cost Accounting Standards sections changed on eCFR: 10 amended, 7 removed.
  • Enforcement: 3 False Claims Act releases, with $9,650,000 in stated recoveries. The largest: $4,900,000, Frazier Aviation, Inc..

Executive orders(3)

Orders the Federal Register published this week. Each links to the order on federalregister.gov, and orders that reach federal procurement lead.

Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence
Artificial intelligenceGrants and cooperative agreements

Executive Order 14434 · 91 FR 63129 · Signed September 29, 2026 · Published October 2, 2026

Federal Register PDF
Eliminating Disease-Carrying Pests and Restoring Enjoyment of the Great Outdoors
Grants and cooperative agreements

Executive Order 14433 · 91 FR 63125 · Signed September 29, 2026 · Published October 2, 2026

Federal Register PDF
Streamlining Access to Government Services Through America.gov

Executive Order 14432 · 91 FR 63121 · Signed September 29, 2026 · Published October 2, 2026

Federal Register PDF

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.

Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 14, 28, 36, and 52
FAR, 48 CFR chapter 1

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

Comments close October 19, 2026 (in 14 days)Submit a comment
Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 9, 27, and 47
FAR, 48 CFR chapter 1

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

Comments close October 19, 2026 (in 14 days)Submit a comment
Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul Parts 16, 17, and 35
FAR, 48 CFR chapter 1

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

Comments close October 19, 2026 (in 14 days)Submit a comment
Federal Acquisition Regulation: Revolutionary FAR Overhaul Parts 8, 12, 13, 15, 38, 44, and 51
FAR, 48 CFR chapter 1

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

Comments close October 19, 2026 (in 14 days)Submit a comment
General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation; GSAR Implementation of Executive Order 14275, Federal Supply Schedule Ordering Procedures
GSAR (GSA), 48 CFR chapter 5

GSA is proposing to amend the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to move Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) ordering procedures from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to GSAR part 538. This rule would direct ordering activities to use the FSS...

General Services Administration · Amends 48 CFR 538 · Published September 22, 2026

Comments close October 22, 2026 (in 17 days)Submit a comment
Small Business Size Standards
Small business size standards, 13 CFR 121

On August 20, 2026, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA or the Agency) published a notice of proposed rulemaking and a notice of availability of Revised Size Standards Methodology in the Federal Register to solicit public comments on the revised methodology and proposed...

Small Business Administration · Amends 13 CFR 121 · Published September 24, 2026

Comments close November 20, 2026 (in 46 days)Submit a comment

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 (1)

Audit programs (1)

Case law this week(31)

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.

GAO bid protests (5 new)

5 denied
  • Cinteot, Inc.Denied

    Decided September 28, 2026 · B-424433.18 · Department of the Army

    The protester contends the solicitation contains various flaws, and that these flaws prevent offerors from competing intelligently and on a common basis.

  • Patriot Contract Services, LLCDenied

    Decided September 17, 2026 · B-424516.2,B-424516.3 · Department of the Navy

    Patriot primarily contends that the agency's proposed corrective action is unreasonable.

    Corrective Action
  • Tryfacta, Inc.Denied

    Decided September 17, 2026 · B-424600,B-424600.2 · Defense Health Agency

  • iWorks CorporationDenied

    Decided September 14, 2026 · B-424555,B-424555.2,B-424555.3 · Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

    The protester alleges that the agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's and its quotation in several respects, failed to assess risk associated with the awardee's quotation, applied unstated criterion in evaluating the protester's quotation, disparately evaluated the protester's and awardee's technical approaches...

    Best-Value / Source Selection
  • SOLPAC Construction, Inc., d/b/a Soltek Pacific Construction Company; The Whiting-Turner Contracting CompanyDenied

    Decided September 4, 2026 · B-424537,B-424537.3,B-424537.6 · Department of the Navy

    Technical EvaluationPast Performance

ASBCA (18 new)

CBCA (8 new)

4 dismissed on other grounds4 settled

Regulation text changes(17)

FAR, DFARS and Cost Accounting Standards sections whose text changed on eCFR this week. Changes to agency supplements are summarized in one line.

ChapterAmendedAddedRemoved
Chapter 99, Cost Accounting Standards Board, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget1007

False Claims Act enforcement(3)

Department of Justice releases that involve federal procurement, largest recovery first.

Defense contractor’s former chief executive to pay $4.9M to resolve False Claims Act allegations
SettlementDepartment of WarQui tam

$4,900,000 · Frazier Aviation, Inc. · Published September 29, 2026

Flores Family Agrees to Pay Additional $2.5 Million in Civil Penalties for Defrauding United States
SettlementDepartment of War

$2,500,000 · KDHK, Inc. · Published September 28, 2026

Enterprise Technology Solutions, Inc. Agrees to Pay $2.25 Million to Settle Allegations of Small Business Program Fraud
SettlementSmall Business AdministrationQui tam

$2,250,000 · Enterprise Technology Solutions, Inc. · Published October 1, 2026

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