Regulation & law · 03/01/2012

DOD, GSA, and NASA Issue Final Rule to Update Time-and-Materials and Labor-Hour Contracts for Commercial Items

The Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have issued a final rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) in response to Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations, aiming to ensure the use of time-and-materials and labor-hour contracts only for commercial services that cannot be acquired through other contract types, and to establish discipline in contract type determination to mitigate government risk.