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The General Services Administration (GSA) has issued its latest set of deviations to the GSA Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) as part of the Revolutionary GSAR Overhaul (RGO). The latest updates include several provisions and clauses, including: GSAR 552.239-7001, Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems GSAR 552.238-116, Option to Extend the Term of the FSS Contract (The Evergreen Clause) The deviations are available in the January 15, 2026 memo, RGO-2026-01, GSA Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) Class Deviations in Response to Executive Order 14275, issued by GSA Senior Procurement Executive Jeff Koses. Attachment A to the memorandum identifies the GSAR parts covered by the deviations, along with their effective dates and dates signed. The corresponding GSAR regulations within the memo have also been updated to reflect the latest deviation language.

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced that it has identified more than $1.2 billion in suspected fraud across five COVID-era contracts supporting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). intended to address outlier pricing and modify how market thresholds are calculated. According to GSA, this change is intended to better align government pricing benchmarks with commercial market rates.

As part of the Coalition’s continuing effort to provide value to our members, we would like to present our Fiscal Year 2025 Federal Market Report. The report takes a deep-dive into the Federal marketplace with insights about contract compliance as well as trends on the GSA and VA Schedules, government-wide contract vehicles, the Federal healthcare market, and more.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has released its FY26 Q1 Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Newsletter, featuring updates and guidance for FSS contractors across a range of contracting, compliance, and program management topics.

GSA has released preliminary findings from its January 2026 Request for Information (RFI) on the role of Value-Added Resellers (VARs) under Special Item Number (SIN) 33411. GSA received 136 responses from industry stakeholders.