# 2025-00615: Federal Acquisition Regulation: Small Business Participation on Certain Multiple-Award Contracts

2025-00615, Federal Acquisition Regulation: Small Business Participation on Certain Multiple-Award Contracts, is a Federal Register proposed rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-15, effective Comments on the proposed rule must be submitted on or before March 17, 2025. (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00615
- As of: 2026-06-11
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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00615
- Title: Federal Acquisition Regulation: Small Business Participation on Certain Multiple-Award Contracts
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-15
- Effective: Comments on the proposed rule must be submitted on or before March 17, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## Summary

The Department of Defense, GSA, and NASA want to make sure small businesses get a fair shot at winning spots on certain big government contracts. They’re proposing new rules to boost small business participation and want your feedback by March 17, 2025. This could open up more opportunities and money for small businesses in the near future!

## Abstract

DoD, GSA, and NASA are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to issue policy on small business participation on certain multiple-award contracts.

## Effects PRIA read

- Mandatory Order Set-Asides for Small Business: benefit, medium. If you are a small business on a multiple-award contract, contracting officers must set aside an order for small business when they reasonably expect offers from two or more responsible small business contract awardees that are competitive on price, quality, schedule, and past performance. This set…
- Set-Asides Built Into New Contract Ordering Rules: benefit, medium. New multiple-award contracts must include ordering procedures that allow orders to be set aside for small business awardees when the set-aside conditions are met, and the rule clarifies that the set-aside requirement can apply to existing contracts if the contract's ordering procedures allow it and…
- On‑Ramps Required to Be Considered for Long-Term Contracts: benefit, low. When planning long-term multiple-award contracts (defined as more than five years in duration, including options), agencies must discuss the use of on-ramps that allow additional small and large businesses to become contract holders during the contract period. If on-ramps are not included but small…
- No New Requirements for SAT or Commercial Items: benefit, low. The proposed rule does not add new requirements for contracts at or below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) or for commercial products (including commercially available off-the-shelf items) or commercial services. Clauses continue to apply to such acquisitions as before.
- Potential Increase in Small Business Contracting Opportunities: benefit, medium. The agencies say this rule is intended to increase the number of multiple-award contracts and orders that are set aside for small businesses and to reverse declining small business participation. The rule could affect any of the roughly 384,100 small entities currently registered in SAM that seek t…

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## Sources
- [2025-00615 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/15/2025-00615/federal-acquisition-regulation-small-business-participation-on-certain-multiple-award-contracts)
- [2025-00615 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-15/pdf/2025-00615.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00615 (as of 2026-06-11).