Los Angeles Harbor Pier 400 shown above. The notice creates a framework for a new part 40 of the FAR, although it does not immediately populate it with those policies. Image: trekandshoot/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe GSA has laid the groundwork to consolidate rules on information security and supply chain security into a new section of the Federal Acquisition Regulation to “provide a location to cover broad security requirements that apply across acquisitions.”
“Currently, the policies and procedures for prohibitions, exclusions, supply chain risk information sharing, and safeguarding information that address security objectives are dispersed across multiple parts of the FAR, which makes it difficult for the acquisition workforce to locate, understand, and implement applicable requirements,” says an April 1 notice in the Federal Register.
The notice creates a framework for a new part 40 of the FAR, although it does not immediately populate it with those policies. That will be done through later rulemaking, the notice says.
It adds: “This new part will provide contracting officers with a single, consolidated location in the FAR that addresses their role in implementing requirements related to managing information security and supply chain security when acquiring products and services. This is also helpful to contractors who may want to review the information security and supply chain security policies and procedures in FAR part 40.”
The new FAR section will cover “security requirements designed to bolster national security through the management of existing or potential adversary-based supply chain risk across technological, intent-based, or economic means (e.g., cybersecurity supply chain risks, foreign-based risks, emerging technology risks)” as well as “security-related requirements that include, but are not limited to, information and communications technology.”
Security-related requirements that only apply to information and communications technology acquisitions and supply chain and information risks that are unrelated to security risks will remain in other parts of the FAR, it said.
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