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48 CFR Chapter 1





Federal Acquisition Regulations; Final Rules

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

48 CFR Chapter 1

[Docket No. FAR-2024-0051, Sequence No. 7]


Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 
2025-02; Introduction

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration 
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Summary presentation of final rules.

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SUMMARY: This document summarizes the Federal Acquisition Regulation 
(FAR) rules agreed to by the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and 
the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council (Councils) in this Federal 
Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025-02. A companion document, the Small 
Entity Compliance Guide (SECG), follows this FAC.

DATES: For effective dates see the separate documents, which follow.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The analyst whose name appears in the 
table below in relation to the FAR case. For information pertaining to 
status or publication schedules, contact the Regulatory Secretariat 
Division at 202-501-4755 or [email protected].

                                           Rules Listed in FAC 2025-02
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              Item                           Subject               FAR case                  Analyst
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I...............................  Training to Prevent Human           2019-017  Jones.
                                   Trafficking For Certain Air
                                   Carriers.
II..............................  Certification of Service-           2022-009  Moore.
                                   Disabled Veteran-Owned
                                   Small Businesses.
III.............................  Technical Amendments........
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ADDRESSES: The FAC, including the SECG, is available at https://www.regulations.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Summaries for each FAR rule follow. For the 
actual revisions and/or amendments made by these FAR rules, refer to 
the specific item numbers and subjects set forth in the documents 
following these item summaries. FAC 2025-02 amends the FAR as follows:

Item I--Training To Prevent Human Trafficking For Certain Air Carriers 
(FAR Case 2019-017)

    This final rule amends the FAR to implement section 111 of the 
Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection 
Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115-425), enacted January 8, 2019. 
Section 111 requires that domestic carriers who contract with the 
Federal Government to provide air transportation submit an annual 
report with certain information related to prevention of human 
trafficking to the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of 
Transportation, the Secretary of Labor, the Administrator of the 
Transportation Security Administration, and the Commissioner of U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection. Section 111 does not apply to contracts 
awarded by the Department of Defense.
    This rule creates a new contract clause at FAR 52.247-69, Reporting 
Requirement for U.S.-Flag Air Carriers Regarding Training to Prevent 
Human Trafficking, to implement the statutory reporting requirement. 
Contracting officers will include this clause in solicitations and 
contracts for the transportation by air of passengers. The reporting 
requirement applies to U.S.-flag air carriers, including small business 
air carriers. The final rule is not expected to have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities within the 
meaning of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

Item II--Certification of Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small 
Businesses (FAR Case 2022-009)

    This FAR rule adopts, without change, an interim rule that amended 
the FAR to implement the Governmentwide certification requirement for 
service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) concerns seeking 
sole-source and set-aside awards under the SDVOSB Program. Effective 
January 1, 2024, an SDVOSB concern must have either been certified by 
the Small Business Administration (SBA), or have both submitted an 
application for certification to SBA on or before December 31, 2023, 
and represented that it is an SDVOSB in the System for Award Management 
(SAM), in order to be eligible for sole-source or set-aside awards 
under the SDVOSB Program. This rule required that an SDVOSB concern 
update its status in SAM no later than two days after the date of a 
final determination that the concern does not meet the requirements of 
the status the concern claims to hold. This rule also provided new 
SDVOSB protest and appeal procedures.

Item III--Technical Amendments

    Administrative changes are made at FAR 13.302-5, 25.101, 36.603, 
49.601-2, 52.204-2, 52.204-7, 52.204-8, 52.204-19, 52.212-5, 52.225-3, 
52.225-4, and 52.225-18.

William F. Clark,
Director, Office of Government-wide Acquisition Policy, Office of 
Acquisition Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.

    Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2025-02 is issued under the 
authority of the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of General 
Services, and the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration.
    Unless otherwise specified, all Federal Acquisition Regulation 
(FAR) and other directive material contained in FAC 2025-02 is 
effective December 16, 2024 except for Items I and III, which are 
effective January 3, 2025.

John M. Tenaglia,

Principal Director, Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition 
Policy, Department of Defense.

Jeffrey A. Koses,

Senior Procurement Executive/Deputy CAO, Office of Acquisition 
Policy, U.S. General Services Administration.

Karla Smith Jackson,

Assistant Administrator for Procurement, Senior Procurement 
Executive/Deputy CAO, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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