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The bill increases transparency and fairness in how outside experts participate in and influence federal awards (improving public oversight and reducing conflicts) at the cost of added privacy exposure for SGEs, new administrative and IT costs, potential delays in awards, and a risk that experts or providers will be discouraged or excluded from participation.
Taxpayers and the public get much greater transparency because agencies will publish who is serving as special Government employees (SGEs), for how long, and (in many cases) their financial disclosures, making it easier to spot possible conflicts of interest.
Award applicants, nonprofit grantees, and contractors benefit from fairer competition for large awards (>$1,000,000) because SGEs with conflicts are barred from benefiting, reducing the risk of biased award decisions.
Federal employees and agencies get clearer, faster compliance rules because the Office of Government Ethics will issue guidance and agencies must update FAR/CFR guidance promptly (within 60 days), reducing uncertainty about SGE participation in awards.
Individuals designated as SGEs (and some outside experts) may face significant privacy exposure because their names, designation reasons, and financial reports will be published, which could be intrusive or risky for those individuals.
Experts, consultants, and private-sector partners may decline to serve or be barred from meaningful participation, reducing agencies' access to outside expertise and private‑sector collaboration.
Agencies and the Office of Government Ethics will incur new administrative and IT costs to collect, process, publish, and maintain SGE disclosures and a searchable database, which ultimately are paid by taxpayers and divert staff time from other tasks.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Bans most special Government employees from seeking or accepting large federal awards from their employing agency, expands public disclosure of SGE financial reports, and creates a public SGE database.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Dave Min · Last progress December 11, 2025
Prohibits special Government employees (SGEs) from knowingly seeking, accepting, or arranging to receive large federal awards (contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or similar instruments that provide more than $1,000,000 annually to the recipient) from the agencies that employ them, including indirect receipt through relatives or affiliated organizations. Requires agencies to revise procurement and grants rules, directs OGE to issue guidance, expands public disclosure of SGE financial reports, and creates a searchable public database of covered SGEs with service days and a description of why they were designated as SGEs.