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Originally Posted by whell
Also, Federal Contracting rules - those that govern the actual terms of the contract and have an economic impact on the contractor - are typically codified in law, not presidential fiat.
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Not so. The bible for Federal contracting is the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) that, like
all other Federal regulations, is developed and approved within the Executive Branch pursuant to the legislation that created the need for said regulation(s). The birth control mandate for secular church institutions was developed in a draft regulation by HHS pursuant to the PPACA, not by Executive fiat (i.e., an Executive Order).
For the record, I was a Federal Contracting Officer for 5 years and taught courses in Federal contracting and participated in the development of numerous Federal regulations for DoD, Department of Labor and the Department of Energy.