(ASPR). The resulting system, the Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR), were announced in March 1959 and applied to the 45 independent civilian agencies of the executive branch. Due to the variety of agencies for whom the guidance was intended, guidance was provided at a high level and specific implementation was left to each agency. In practice, this meant that procurement policies varied between executive agencies and often within each agency's divisions and subdivisions.

In 1974, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy