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I. Mission and Overview

GSA oversees the business of the Federal Government. GSA’s acquisition solutions supplies Federal purchasers with cost-effective, high-quality products and services from commercial vendors. GSA provides workplaces for Federal employees and oversees the preservation of historic Federal properties. GSA helps keep the Nation safe by providing tools, equipment, and non-tactical vehicles to the U.S. military, and providing State and local governments with law enforcement equipment, firefighting and rescue equipment, and disaster recovery products and services.

GSA serves the public by delivering services directly to its Federal customers through the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), the Public Buildings Service (PBS), and the Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP). GSA has a continuing commitment to its Federal customers and the U.S.

taxpayers by providing those services in the most cost-effective manner possible. Federal Acquisition Service (FAS)

FAS is the lead organization for procurement of products and services (other than real property) for the Federal Government. The FAS organization leverages the buying power of the Government by consolidating Federal agencies requirements for common goods and services. FAS provides a range of high-quality and flexible acquisition services that increase overall Government effectiveness and

efficiency. FAS business operations are organized into four business portfolios based on the product or service provided to customer agencies: Integrated Technology Services (ITS); Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS); General Supplies and Services (GSS); and Travel, Motor Vehicles and Card Services (TMVCS). The FAS portfolio structure enables GSA and FAS to provide best value services, products, and solutions to its customers by aligning resources around key functions. Public Buildings Service (PBS)

PBS is the largest public real estate organization in the United States, providing facilities and workspace solutions to more than 60 Federal agencies. PBS aims to provide a superior

workplace for the Federal worker and superior value for the U.S. taxpayer. Balancing these two objectives is PBS’ greatest management challenge. PBS’ activities fall into two broad areas. The first is space acquisition through both leases and construction. PBS translates general needs into specific

requirements, marshals the necessary resources, and delivers the space necessary to meet the respective missions of its Federal clients. The second area is management of space. This involves making decisions on maintenance, servicing tenants, and ultimately, deciding when and how to dispose of a property at the end of its useful life.

Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP) OGP sets Governmentwide policy in the areas of personal and real property, travel and transportation, information technology, regulatory information, and use of Federal advisory committees. OGP also helps direct how all Federal supplies and services are acquired as well as GSA’s own acquisition programs. OGP’s regulatory function fully incorporates the provisions of the President’s priorities and objectives under Executive Order 12866 and 13563 with policies covering acquisition, travel, and property and management practices to promote efficient

Government operations. OGP’s strategic direction is to ensure that

Governmentwide policies encourage agencies to develop and utilize the best, most cost effective management practices for the conduct of their specific programs. To reach the goal of improving Governmentwide

management of property, technology, and administrative services, OGP builds and maintains a policy framework by (1) incorporating the requirements of Federal laws, Executive orders, and other regulatory material into policies and guidelines; (2) facilitating Governmentwide reform to provide Federal managers with business-like incentives and tools and flexibility to prudently manage their assets; (3) identifying, evaluating, and promoting best practices to improve efficiency of management processes; and (4) performing ongoing analysis if existing rules that may be obsolete, unnecessary, unjustified, excessively burdensome, or counterproductive. In regard to the retrospective analysis of existing rules, GSA’s plan (dated Aug. 18, 2011) has been approved by OMB.

OGP’s policy regulations are

described in the following subsections:

Office of Travel, Transportation, and Asset Management (Federal Travel Regulation)

Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) enumerates the travel and relocation policy for all title 5 executive agency employees. The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is available at

www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr. Each version is updated as official changes are

published in the Federal Register (FR). FR publications and complete versions of the FTR are available at www.gsa.gov/ ftr.

The FTR is the regulation contained in 41 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), chapters 300 through 304, that

implements statutory requirements and executive branch policies for travel by Federal civilian employees and others authorized to travel at Government expense.

The Administrator of General Services promulgates the FTR to: (a) Interpret statutory and other policy requirements in a manner that balances the need to ensure that official travel is conducted in a responsible manner with the need to minimize administrative costs and (b) communicate the resulting policies in a clear manner to Federal agencies and employees.

Office of Travel, Transportation, and Asset Management (Federal

Management Regulation)

Federal Management Regulation (FMR) establishes policy for aircraft, transportation, personal property, and mail management. The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR), and it contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that describes how to do business with the GSA.

Office of Acquisition Policy (Federal Acquisition Regulation and GSA Acquisition Regulation Manual)

GSA helps provide to the public and the Federal buying community the updating and maintaining of the rule book for all Federal agency

procurements, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). This is achieved through its extensive involvement with the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council. The FAR Council is comprised of senior representation from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Defense (DoD), and GSA.

The FAR Council directs the writing of the FAR cases, which is

accomplished, in part, by teams of

expert FAR analysts. All changes to the FAR are accompanied by review and analysis of public comment. Public comments play an important role in clarifying and enhancing this rulemaking process. The regulatory agenda pertaining to changes to the FAR are outside the scope of this discussion as GSA cannot speak on behalf of the FAR Council.

GSA’s internal rules and practices on how it buys goods and services from its business partners are covered by the General Services Administration Acquisition Manual (GSAM) and the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR). The GSAM is closely related to the FAR as it supplements areas of the FAR where GSA has additional and unique regulatory requirements. Office of Acquisition Policy writes and revises the GSAM and the GSAR. The size and scope of the FAR are substantially larger than the GSAR. In effect, the GSAR and the GSAM adds to the FAR by providing additional guidance to GSA officials and its business partners.

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR): The FAR was established to codify uniform policies for acquisition of supplies and services by executive agencies. It is issued and maintained jointly, pursuant to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP)

Reauthorization Act, under the statutory authorities granted to the Secretary of Defense, Administrator of General Services, and the Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Statutory authorities to issue and revise the FAR have been delegated to the procurement executives in Department of Defense (DoD), GSA, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

GSA Acquisition Regulation Manual (GSAM) along with Acquisition Letters: The GSAM incorporates the GSAR, as well as internal agency acquisition policy. The rules that require publication fall into two major categories:

• Those that affect GSA’s business partners (e.g., prospective offerors and contractors).

• Those that apply to acquisition of leasehold interests in real property. The FAR does not apply to leasing actions. GSA establishes regulations for lease of real property under the authority of 40 U.S.C. 490 note.

GSA Acquisition Regulation (GSAR): The GSAR establishes agency

acquisition rules and guidance, which contains agency acquisition policies and practices, contract clauses, solicitation provisions, and forms that control the

relationship between GSA and

contractors and prospective contractors.

II. Statement of Regulatory and Deregulatory Priorities

FTR Regulatory Priorities

In fiscal year 2012, GSA plans to amend the FTR by:

• Revising the Relocation Income Tax (RIT) Allowance; amending coverage on family relocation;

• Amending the calculations regarding the commuted rate for employee-managed household goods shipments; and

• Removing the Privately Owned Vehicle (POV) rates from the FTR; amending reimbursement for employees staying in their privately owned homes/ condos while on TDY.

FMR Regulatory Priorities

In fiscal year 2012, GSA plans to amend the FMR by:

• Revising rules regarding management of government aircraft;

• Revising rules regarding mail management;

• Amending coverage in motor vehicle management by revising the definition of ‘‘motor vehicle rental’’;

• Migrating the provisions of the Federal Property Management

Regulations (FPMR) regarding purchase of new motor vehicles to the FMR;

• Migrating the provisions of the Interagency Fleet Management Systems from the Federal Property Management Regulations (FPMR) into the FMR;

• Incorporating the requirements of the Presidential Memorandum on Federal Fleet Performance of May 24, 2011, that all agencies develop annual vehicle allocation methodologies to rightsize their fleets and that by fiscal year 2015 all light duty vehicles acquired be alternatively fueled;

• Amending transportation management regulations by revising coverage on open skies agreements, obligation authority, and training for civilian transportation officers, and transportation data collection;

• Amending Transportation

Management and Audit by revising the requirements regarding the refund of unused and expired tickets;

• Publishing procedures for handling the transfer of title for vehicles to donees via State Agencies for Surplus Property; removing activities related to the Federal Asset Sales program, which initiated the program (policies began rulemaking process in fiscal year 2011);

• Removing aircraft, aircraft-related parts, fire control equipment, and guided missiles from the exchange/sale prohibited list; and

• Migrating supply and procurement policy from the FPMR to the FMR. GSAR Regulatory Priorities

GSA plans, in fiscal year 2012, to finalize the rewrite of the GSAR to maintain consistency with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and to implement streamlined and innovative acquisition procedures that contractors, offerors, and GSA contracting personnel can utilize when entering into and administering contractual relationships. Currently, there are only a few parts of the GSAR rewrite effort still

outstanding.

GSA is clarifying the GSAR by—

• Providing consistency with the FAR;

• Eliminating coverage that duplicates the FAR or creates inconsistencies within the GSAR;

• Correcting inappropriate references listed to indicate the basis for the regulation;

• Rewriting sections that have become irrelevant because of changes in technology or business processes or that place unnecessary administrative burdens on contractors and the Government;

• Streamlining or simplifying the regulation;

• Rolling up coverage from the services and regions/zones that should be in the GSAR;

• Providing new and/or augmented coverage; and

• Deleting unnecessary burdens on small businesses.

Specific GSAR cases that the agency plans to address in FY 2012 and 2013 include:

• The rewrite of GSAM part 515, Contracting by Negotiation.

• The rewrite of GSAM part 538, Federal Supply Schedule Contracting.

• The rewrite of GSAM part 536, Construction and A/E Contracts.

These cases are more fully described in the Agency’s approved Final Plan for Retrospective Analysis of Existing Rules (Aug. 18, 2011), created in response to Executive Order 13563.

Regulations of Concern to Small Businesses

FAR and GSAR rules are relevant to small businesses who do or wish to do business with the Federal Government. Approximately 18,000 businesses, most of whom are small, have GSA schedule contracts. GSA assists its small

businesses by providing assistance through its Office of Small Business Utilization. In addition, GSA extensively utilizes its regional resources, within FAS and PBS, to provide grass-roots outreach to small

business concerns, through hosting such outreach events, or participating in a vast array of other similar presentations hosted by others.

Regulations Which Promote Open Government and Disclosure

While there are currently no regulations which promote open Government and disclosure, all

Government contract spend transactions are available online through Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation (FPDS–NG).

Regulations Required by Statute or Court Order

GSA plans to publish FTR Case 2011– 308; Payment of Expenses Connected with the Death of Certain Employees in FY 2012. Presidential Memorandum ‘‘Delegation Under Section 2(a) of the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act’’, dated September 12, 2011, delegates to the Administrator of General Services the authority to issues regulations under Public Law 111–178, the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act, codified at 5 U.S.C. 5724d, relating to the payment of certain expenses when a covered employee dies as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of his or her official duties. GSA is amending the FTR to establish policy for the transportation of the immediate family, household goods, personal effects, and one privately owned vehicle of a covered employee whose death occurred as a result of personal injury sustained while in the performance of the employee’s duty as defined by the agency.

Regulation Required by Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP)

A FAR case will be necessary to implement OFPP Policy Letter 11–01; Performance of Inherently

Governmental and Critical Functions.’’ Updates will be provided in the Spring Regulatory Agenda.

III. Retrospective Review of Existing Regulations

Pursuant to section 6 of Executive Order 13563 ‘‘Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review’’ (January 18, 2011), the following Regulatory Identifier Numbers (RINs) have been identified as associated with retrospective review and analysis in the Department’s final retrospective review of regulations plan. Some of these entries on this list may be completed actions, which do not appear in The Regulatory Plan. However, more information can be found about these completed

Unified Agenda on Reginfo.gov in the Completed Actions section for that agency. These rulemakings can also be found on Regulations.gov. The final agency plans can be found at:

www.gsa.gov/improvingregulations.

FAR Rules

• 9000–AL93 FAR Case 2007–012; Requirements for Acquisitions Pursuant to Multiple-Award Contracts; yes, this rule increases competition which will benefit small businesses.

• 9000–AL46 FAR Case 2008–025; Preventing Personal Conflicts of Interest for Contractor Employees Performing Acquisition Functions; no specific impact on small businesses.

• 9000–AL82 FAR Case 2011–001; Organizational Conflicts of Interest; no specific impact on small businesses.

• 9000–AL88 FAR Case 2011–004; Socioeconomic Program Parity; this rule, implementing Section 1347 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, specifically impacts small businesses; however, no overall negative impact is expected.

• 9000–AM12 FAR Case 2011–024; Set-Asides for Small Business; yes, this rule, implementing Section 1331 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, will increase opportunities for small business contractors authorizing agencies to set aside more work for small businesses under multiple award contracts.

GSAR Rules

• 3090–A177 GSAR Case 2006– G507; Rewrite of GSAR Part 538, Federal Supply Schedule Contracting.

• 3090–A176 GSAR Case 2008– G506; Rewrite of GSAR Part 515, Contracting by Negotiation.

• 3090–A181 GSAR Case 2008– G509; Rewrite of GSAR Part 536, Construction and A/E Contracts.

Note: The GSAR cases do not specifically provide relief to small businesses or additional administrative flexibility to state, local or tribal governments. However, we do believe that updating and clarifying the regulation will benefit all contractors (and Schedule users).