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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 38: Federal Supply Schedule Contracting › Subpart 38.2

FAR 38.201 Coordination requirements.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This section requires contracting officers who award Federal Supply Schedule contracts to coordinate with and get approval from the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service before making certain changes to schedules. It matters because it sets a mandatory approval step for establishing, discontinuing, or modifying schedules and their item numbers.

Applies to: Contracting officers responsible for awarding Federal Supply Schedule contracts

What it requires

  • Coordinate and obtain GSA Federal Supply Service approval before establishing new schedules
  • Coordinate and obtain GSA Federal Supply Service approval before discontinuing existing schedules
  • Coordinate and obtain GSA Federal Supply Service approval before changing the scope of agency or geographical coverage of existing schedules
  • Coordinate and obtain GSA Federal Supply Service approval before adding or deleting special item numbers or national stock numbers, or revising their description

Key terms: Federal Supply Schedule contracts · General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service (FSS) · special item numbers · national stock numbers · interagency agreements

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) Subject to interagency agreements, contracting officers having responsibility for awarding Federal Supply Schedule contracts shall coordinate and obtain approval of the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Service (FSS) before—

(1) Establishing new schedules;

(2) Discontinuing existing schedules;

(3) Changing the scope of agency or geographical coverage of existing schedules; or

(4) Adding or deleting special item numbers, national stock numbers, or revising their description.

(b) Requests should be forwarded to the General Services Administration, Federal Supply Service, Office of Acquisition (FC), Washington, DC 20406.

← 38.101 General.

Rule changes for FAR Part 38

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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