The General Services Administration (GSA) announced a delay in implementing certain amendments to its acquisition regulations, initially published on December 27, 2024. This postponement aligns with a Presidential Memorandum from January 20, 2025, which called for a regulatory freeze for review. The affected regulations' effective date has been moved from January 2025 to May 2025. This change is officially recorded in the Federal Register with document number 2025-05430.
Simple Explanation
The General Services Administration is pressing pause on their new rules for buying stuff until May because they want time to review them, even though the rules were supposed to start being used in January 2025. This delay follows a request from a former president, which might seem a bit confusing because he wasn't in office at that time.