BLUF: The General Services Administration (GSA) proposed a rule on September 22, 2026 to relocate Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) ordering procedures from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) into a new GSA Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) part 538.

The proposed rule implements Executive Order 14275 and would direct ordering activities across the government to use the FSS ordering procedures as established by GSA rather than the FAR.

Why it matters: Contractors holding Multiple Award Schedule contracts, and contracting officers who place orders against them, should watch where this rule lands — moving FSS ordering procedures out of the FAR and into GSAR part 538 changes which regulation contracting officers and schedule holders must consult for order-level rules, and gives GSA more direct control over how those procedures are set and updated going forward.

By the numbers:

• Publication date: September 22, 2026
• Document type: Proposed Rule
• Issuing agency: General Services Administration
• New regulatory home: GSAR part 538
• Authority: Executive Order 14275

The Federal Register notice does not specify an effective date for the relocated procedures beyond the proposed rule's publication; GSA's notice indicates the rule is intended to formally direct ordering activities to GSA's FSS procedures rather than substantively rewrite the underlying ordering rules themselves.

Source: Federal Register