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Welcome to Episode 1 of The FAR is Lava, where we teach the FAR and RFO through current procurement news.

In this episode, Ben Bunting and Will Roberts break down some of the biggest stories affecting federal acquisition right now:

• SBA’s proposal to overhaul small business size standards, potentially making more than 114,000 additional companies eligible as small businesses
• GSA’s scrutiny of the AbilityOne program over Buy American compliance, pricing, and country-of-origin concerns
• A VA contract dispute where a contractor may have used AI to manipulate financial documents
• The Technology Modernization Fund and how it could have roughly $200 million available for new IT modernization projects even without a new congressional appropriation
• A new GAO protest involving Wilson 5 Service Company that shows the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul in action
• RFO FAR Part 19 and what is changing for small business acquisition
• Listener questions about J&As, BPAs, IDIQs, and how to start a career as a federal contracting officer

We also take a trip through contract history and look at the Defense Production Act of 1950 and the federal contractor COVID-19 executive order.

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