An Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) was issued May 13 seeking input on how the government can best implement a policy of posting government contracts online. FAR Case 2009-004, Enhancing Contract Transparency, notes that while no policy mandating the online posting of contracts exists yet, the Councils anticipate that one could be coming soon.
They point to the general tone of several of President Obama's memoranda (including the Freedom of Information Act Memorandum and the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum) and other points of executive branch policy and conclude that given the shift to more open government, a requirement to post government contracts online is coming. The ANPR asks for suggestions for how best to revise the FAR to facilitate such posting without violating statutory and regulatory prohibitions against disclosing protected information that belongs to the government or to contractors.
AGC will closely monitor the development of this ANPR and will soon solicit ideas from contractors on how to proceed.
If you would like to submit comments on this rule to AGC, please contact Marco Giamberadino at giamberm@agc.org or (703) 837-5325.
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