SF 294 Non-substantive Change Justification

Non-Substantive Change Request for

Standard Form 294 (Information Collection 9000-0007)

By issuing FAR case 2019-013, DoD, GSA, and NASA have amended the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to further implement 41 U.S.C. 1908, Inflation adjustment of acquisition-related dollar thresholds. 

This statute requires an adjustment every five years of acquisition-related thresholds for inflation using the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, except for the Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute (Davis-Bacon Act), Service Contract Labor Standards statute, and trade agreements thresholds. 

This, in turn, will change Standard Form 294, specifically. In the General Instructions of the form, General Instruction number 3 has been amended by:

Removing from 3(a): $700,000 (over $1.5 million for construction of a public facility), and adding: the applicable thresholds found at 19.702(a), in its place.

DoD, GSA, and NASA are also using the same methodology to adjust non-statutory FAR acquisition-related thresholds in 2020.