Not yet. On August 14, 2026, federal agencies submitted the SF330 to OMB for a routine three-year renewal and opened a second comment window that closes September 14. One comment was filed asking for form changes. The FAR Council replied that those changes would require rulemaking, through FAR Case 2026-010.
What Happened on August 14, 2026
Every federal form that collects information from the public has to be re-authorized by the Office of Management and Budget on a fixed cycle, usually every three years. That is the Paperwork Reduction Act, and the SF330 entered that process on May 22, 2026. The first comment window closed July 21.
On August 14, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the Department of Defense, GSA, and NASA submitted the collection to OMB and opened a second window. That one closes September 14, 2026. The docket is 2026-0168 and the OMB control number is 9000-0157.
The notice describes the request as "an extension of a previously approved information collection requirement." Nothing in it proposes a change to the form, and the burden estimate did not move from May. The notice says the comment received "did not change the estimate of the burden."
What the One Comment Asked For
Exactly one comment was filed in the July window. The notice records that the respondent asked for "updates for the SF 330 form, aiming to modernize the form and reduce administrative burdens," in three specific pieces.
| What was requested | Why it matters in practice |
|---|---|
| An official editable Microsoft Word version of the form | The government publishes a PDF, so firms rebuild the layout by hand or buy something to do it for them |
| Updated contact-information blocks | The blocks do not reflect how firms and agencies actually route a submittal and its questions today |
| Date fields for proposal due dates and amendment acknowledgments | Nothing on the form records which amendment a submittal answers, so that compliance has to be tracked somewhere else |
Note who wrote that list. None of it is a policy position. Those are the observations of somebody who has assembled a submittal recently and knows where the minutes go. It is the most modest possible version of a complaint firms have been making for years, and it is worth reading as a measure of how little the industry is actually asking for.
What "Would Require Rulemaking" Means
The FAR Council's response, in full:
The FAR Council appreciates the feedback received. The revisions to the SF 330 recommended by the commenter would require rulemaking. The respondent will have the opportunity to provide feedback when proposed changes to FAR Part 36 are published for comment soon as part of FAR Case 2026-010, Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul parts 14, 28, and 36.
In practice, a Paperwork Reduction Act renewal is the wrong door for a form change. Its job is to re-authorize the collection and test the burden estimate. Changing what the form asks for means amending FAR Part 36, and that runs through notice-and-comment rulemaking.
The right door now has a number attached to it. FAR Case 2026-010 covers Parts 14, 28, and 36, and it is the reason Part 36 was left out of the overhaul's published proposed rules. The notice says the proposed changes will publish "soon" and gives no date.
Why One Comment Is the Real Finding
One comment. On a form that roughly 400 firms file about 1,600 times a year, and that generates more grumbling than any other document in federal A/E procurement.
The June piece argued that a comment naming a specific problem and proposing a concrete fix is the kind that gets read. That is precisely what the single comment did, and the answer was: right instinct, wrong process, come back when Part 36 opens. That is not a brush-off. It is the system behaving as designed, and it settles something the June piece could only guess at. The SF330's design is now formally attached to the FAR overhaul rather than to its own renewal cycle.
Should You File a Comment Before September 14?
Be clear about what this window is for. It asks whether the collection is still necessary, whether the burden estimate is accurate, and how the burden might be reduced. It is not a design review. A comment about Section F formatting will get the same answer the first one did.
Where a comment does have purchase is on the burden number itself. The agencies estimate the collection at 46,632 hours across 1,608 annual responses. If a routine Part I submittal costs your team several times the per-response figure that implies, that is a burden-estimate comment, and it is exactly what this window exists to collect.
Knowing your own number is the harder half, and most firms do not track it. Firms that keep staff and project records as structured data rather than as finished documents can see where submittal hours actually go, which is what RFPM.ai is built around and also what tells you how many pursuits you can realistically support. Your team still decides which people and projects belong in the package.
To file, the docket is 2026-0168 on regulations.gov. Some agency dockets display a September 15 date; the Federal Register notice says September 14, so treat that as the deadline. Trade associations such as ACEC also submit consolidated comments, which for a single firm is usually the higher-impact route.
What This Means for the SF330 You Are Filing Now
Nothing changes. The form is the 07/2021 version and it will still be the 07/2021 version this fall. The section-by-section requirements are unchanged, keeping Part II current is still an annual discipline, and if a revision ever does land through FAR Case 2026-010, it arrives with its own proposed rule, its own comment period, and its own lead time.
One thing did change, and it belongs on a watch list. Before August 14, "is the SF330 changing" was a question with no venue attached. Now it has one. When Part 36's proposed rule publishes, that is the document to read.
If your work is mostly state and local, none of this reaches you. State DOT prequalification runs on each state's own forms and its own cycles, and those change on schedules of their own.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the SF330 changing in 2026?
Not through the renewal now in progress, which extends the form's information collection rather than redesigning it. On August 14, 2026 the FAR Council said the changes one commenter requested would require rulemaking, through FAR Case 2026-010. No proposed rule has published and no date has been given.
When does the SF330 comment period close?
September 14, 2026, according to the Federal Register notice published August 14. Some agency dockets on regulations.gov display September 15. File by September 14 to be safe. The window covers the information collection's necessity and burden estimate, not the design of the form itself.
What is FAR Case 2026-010?
It is the FAR overhaul case covering Parts 14, 28, and 36, the part that governs architect-engineer services. Part 36 was left out of the four proposed rules published on June 23, 2026, and sits in this case instead. Any SF330 redesign would travel through it.
Which version of the SF330 should I be using?
The version dated 07/2021, which is current and stays current until a revision publishes through rulemaking. The August 14 renewal does not alter the form. If you are assembling a submittal this fall, nothing about the sections, the codes, or the page limits has changed.