Which clauses does statute actually require?
The agent maps each FAR/DFARS clause to the authority behind it and proposes a disposition: statutory (a statute mandates it — retain), protective (an essential procurement protection worth keeping — retain), or discretionary (a prescriptive layer beyond statute — a candidate to deviate away under the FAR Overhaul). You confirm or override each call, and the record becomes the basis for a documented deviation determination.
For one solicitation, what can actually come out?
Given a solicitation's clause set, the agent applies the crosswalk to produce a deviation review: which clauses stay because statute or an essential protection requires them, and which prescriptive clauses can be deviated away. Pick a solicitation to see the review and the compliance burden it removes.
| Clause | Disposition | Basis for the agent's call | Compliance burden |
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Across the portfolio, what does deviation free up?
The per-solicitation burden reduction, rolled up. This is the figure the reform memo needs: how many prescriptive clauses the office can deviate, the combined contractor-plus-government compliance cost that removes each year, and the program obligations it sits against. Adjust the burden assumptions — every input is visible and editable.
How the agent works (and its limits)
Two cooperating agents share one knowledge base. The crosswalk agent retrieves the governing authority for each FAR/DFARS clause (the U.S. Code section, executive order, or FAR policy that prescribes it) and proposes a disposition — statutory, protective, or discretionary — with a confidence score, a short rationale, and citations. Every call is agent-proposed; a contracting officer confirms or overrides, and that determination is what the summary reflects and what a class-deviation package would rest on.
The solicitation-review agent takes a solicitation's clause set and reports which clauses are deviatable and how much compliance burden that removes. A clause's action is derived from its disposition: discretionary clauses are deviated, statutory and protective clauses are retained.
Architecture. This build runs against a FastAPI backend that puts the reasoning model behind one swappable interface (Anthropic Claude via Bedrock in cloud/GovCloud; an open-weight model on vLLM/Ollama for air-gapped enclaves; a deterministic mock for offline demos) and retrieval behind another (pgvector on Postgres in production; in-memory lexical for the demo). The frontend is dependency-free static files and does not know which is live.
Limits. Disposition classifications are legal and procurement judgements: the agent accelerates the analysis, it does not replace the contracting officer, counsel, or the class-deviation approval process. Nothing here is a determination of statutory applicability or a legal opinion. The clause set, dispositions, and burden estimates in this build are illustrative and abbreviated for demonstration.