Make Your Voice Count — FAR Overhaul

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The government is rewriting the rules of the federal marketplace — the Federal Acquisition Regulation — in the biggest overhaul since 1984. The proposed rules would change how opportunities get posted, whether agencies must consider small businesses at each step, and how the work you compete for reaches the market.

Commenting works. The first round drew about 1,600 comments, and the government changed course on several major provisions. What the record needs now is what only you can supply: real facts from real small businesses. The government's own small-business impact analysis is thin — your comment is the evidence it didn't gather.

The golden rules

Write in your own words. A thousand identical letters count as one comment; a thousand real stories count as a thousand pieces of evidence.
Be specific. Your company, city/state, industry, headcount, roughly what share of your revenue is federal.
Tell one story. Pick one or two topics you've actually lived. Half a page of truth beats ten pages of anything else.
Only true, verifiable facts. Every real story strengthens the record; anything exaggerated weakens all of us.
Support, don't attach. Your comment closes with a one-line statement of support — the tool adds it for you, so there's no need to paste the full filing.

What the proposed rules would change

Finding the work

Work in the $25,000–$45,000 range would still be posted, but lose its guaranteed 15-day head start before the solicitation — and announcing the largest awards would become optional.

Task orders & big vehicles

Agencies would no longer be required to consider small businesses when placing orders — while more work moves onto those vehicles.

Growing past small

Set-asides stay mandatory only for standalone contracts under $350,000; above that, considering small business becomes the buyer's choice.

The people & process that open doors

Required market research and the role of small-business specialists would be cut back.

1 · Which of these sounds like your firm?

Pick one and we'll surface the topics that fit you best. You can always open all of them.

2 · Draft your comment

We'll set up your name and firm — you write the story. Your one-line statement of support gets added automatically when you copy for each docket below.

3 · File it in both dockets

For each docket: copy your comment (we add your support line), open the docket on Regulations.gov, paste, and submit. Two dockets — a few minutes each.

FAR Case 2026-002 Competition, planning & market research · Read the rule

FAR Case 2026-005 Publicizing opportunities · Read the rule

✓ Both dockets opened. Nicely done — that's the part with the deadline behind you.
Next: tell your members of Congress where you stand.

In addition to your comment, a quick note to your representative and senators tells them where small businesses in their district stand on the FAR overhaul. This is separate from your comment — and you can come back to it later if you'd rather file first.

Find your representatives

This is the one step that needs your street address — it's how we match you to your House district and senators.

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Shell note: lookup is stubbed with sample officials so you can click the flow. Real version wires in the Geocodio district lookup + the district/state set-aside data, exactly as the existing tool does. INTEGRATION HOOK

Independent small-business advocacy. This site helps you file your own comment and contact your own representatives — it does not submit anything on your behalf. The organization's comments referenced above are posted on Regulations.gov in each docket.