White House Changes Federal Contracting Rules to Eliminate DEI Considerations

The Trump administration is directing federal agencies to no longer consider a company’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices when deciding whether to procure its goods or services, according to an announcement from the General Services Administration.

The new policy reverses a Biden administration initiative that asked the government to weigh a company’s internal DEI practices as one of many factors when considering whether to purchase that company’s products or services.

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The moves are the first in what the GSA says will be an overhaul of federal procurement practices. {snip}

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The new GSA directives call for renegotiations if six months or more are remaining on a contract, in order to remove clauses relating to DEI. Companies won’t be penalized for continuing internal DEI programs under the new policy, but those programs won’t be considered as a factor in contract awards, according to a spokesman for the GSA.