General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation; Standardizing the Identification of Deviations in the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation

GSA is issuing this final rule amending the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to standardize the language used to identify and communicate when there has been an approved FAR deviation within the GSAR. This action is necessary in order to provide consistency for readers of the GSA regulations. The intended effects of this rule are: first, the standardized text will allow readers consulting the table of contents of a given GSAR subpart to easily locate sections containing FAR deviations; and second, standardized language at the beginning of individual GSAR subdivisions containing FAR deviations will both identify the use of and specify the actions authorized by the deviation.