GSA extends comments on sweeping AI clause after industry pushback

SOURCE: FEDSCOOP

The General Services Administration pushed back the timeline for draft contract language that would define the government’s relationship with AI service providers in a major federal acquisition program, citing industry requests for an extension.

In an update to its Multiple Award Schedule Refresh 31 webpage Thursday night, GSA said that comments on the draft are now due April 3, and consideration of the proposed clause would also be pushed to the next scheduled modification to the contracting program, “Refresh 32.”

It wasn’t immediately clear when that future modification might take place, but in the meantime, the decision gives the private sector more time after the original deadline last Friday sent companies and lawyers into a two-week scramble to analyze the language and provide comments before the clock ran out.

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