# 2025-06835: President Orders Feds to Buy Off-the-Shelf, Cut Custom Costs

2025-06835, Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-04-18, effective 2025-04-15 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-06835
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-06835
- Title: Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 16433
- Published: 2025-04-18
- Effective: 2025-04-15
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

President Orders Feds to Buy Off-the-Shelf, Cut Custom Costs

## Summary

The President wants federal agencies to buy more ready-made, commercial products and services instead of custom ones to save taxpayer money and speed things up. Agencies must review all current contracts within 60 days to make sure they follow this new rule. This change affects all federal departments and aims to cut waste and bring in fresh, cost-effective ideas from the private sector.

## Effects PRIA read

- Federal Preference for Commercial Products: benefit, medium. The President ordered that federal agencies shall procure commercially available products and services, including those that can be modified, 'to the maximum extent practicable' pursuant to the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA). This policy directs all executive departments, military depa…
- Mandatory Reviews and Market Research Deadlines: benefit, medium. Agencies must have their approval authority direct contracting officers to review all open solicitations for non-commercial products or services within 60 days of the order and consolidate them into proposed applications that include market research and price analysis. Approval authorities then hav…

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## Sources
- [2025-06835 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/18/2025-06835/ensuring-commercial-cost-effective-solutions-in-federal-contracts)
- [2025-06835 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-18/pdf/2025-06835.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-06835 (as of 2026-11-04).