Sources & Endnotes

From the Essential Guide to the FAR Overhaul Crisis

1. OMB Memorandum M-25-25: FAR Reform Implementation Guidance. Office of Management and Budget, May 2, 2025. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/M-25-25.pdf
2. FAR Council Memorandum M-25-25 (2025). https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/M-25-25.pdf
3. Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 10: Market Research. https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-10
4. Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses. https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52
5. Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 1.404: Class Deviations. https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-1#FAR_1_404
6. Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 1.5: Agency and Public Participation. https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/practitioner_albums/far-part-1-FAR-system/content/index.html#/
7. Restore Fair Access™ Interactive District Map (Texas District 25). https://restorefairaccess.org/local-impact
8. Restore Fair Access™ Interactive District Map (New York District 01). https://restorefairaccess.org/local-impact
9. Restore Fair Access™ Interactive District Map (Georgia District 03). https://restorefairaccess.org/local-impact
10. Restore Fair Access™ Interactive District Map (Delaware At-Large). https://restorefairaccess.org/local-impact
11. Restore Fair Access™ Interactive District Map (State of Iowa). https://restorefairaccess.org/local-impact
12. Government Accountability Office, Small Business Vendor Base Decline Report. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105458
13. Institute for Defense Analyses, Market Concentration Impacts on Federal Procurement. https://www.ida.org/research-and-publications/publications/all/m/ma/market-concentration-and-federal-procurement
14. Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. §551 et seq.). https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/laws/administrative-procedure
15. Acquisition.gov, Practitioner Album - FAR Part 1 Redlined Version (2025). https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/practitioner_albums/far-part-1-FAR-system/content/index.html#/
16. Congressional Research Service, Small Business Contracting and the Rule of Two: Legislative History and Policy Implications. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45015
17. Federal Acquisition Regulation 1.304: Class Deviations. https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-1#FAR_1_304
18. U.S. Government Accountability Office, "Implementation of the Small Business Act's Set-Aside Provision (1986)." https://www.gao.gov/assets/130518.pdf
19. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "AI Risk Management Framework: Bias and Fairness in Automated Decision-Making." https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework