# 2025-06839: Government Overhauls Buying Rules to Trim Trillion-Dollar Waste

2025-06839, Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement, 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/2025-06839
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-06839
- Title: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 16447
- 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

Government Overhauls Buying Rules to Trim Trillion-Dollar Waste

## Summary

The government is fixing its super complicated buying rules to make shopping for goods and services faster, easier, and less costly. This change affects all federal agencies and the companies that work with them, aiming to save taxpayers money and speed up purchases starting now. By cutting red tape in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the government plans to spend nearly $1 trillion smarter every year.

## Effects PRIA read

- Major Rewrite of the FAR Rules: benefit, high. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) must be amended so it only keeps rules required by law or needed for simplicity, usability, procurement effectiveness, or national/economic security. The Administrator must begin those amendments within 180 days of April 15, 2025, affecting all agencies and…
- Four-Year Sunset for Nonstatutory Rules: benefit, medium. The order directs the Administrator and FAR Council to consider making any FAR provisions not required by statute expire 4 years after the final rule's effective date unless the FAR Council renews them. It also directs consideration that new nonstatutory FAR provisions include a 4-year expiration u…
- Policy To Expand Industrial Bases: benefit, medium. The order states policy goals to remove undue barriers and to allow expansion of the national and defense industrial bases by simplifying procurement rules. This is an explicit objective in the order’s procurement reform policy.

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## Sources
- [2025-06839 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/18/2025-06839/restoring-common-sense-to-federal-procurement)
- [2025-06839 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-18/pdf/2025-06839.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-06839 (as of 2026-11-04).