---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 7.403"
title: "48"
number: "7.403"
heading: "General Services Administration assistance and OMB guidance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/7.403"
---

# §7.403. General Services Administration assistance and OMB guidance.

- (a) When requested by an agency, the General Services Administration (GSA) will assist in rent, lease, or purchase decisions by providing information such as—
  - (1) Pending price adjustments to Federal Supply Schedule contracts;
  - (2) Recent or imminent technological developments;
  - (3) New techniques; and
  - (4) **Industry or market trends.**
- (b) **For additional GSA assistance and guidance, agencies may—**
  - (1) Request information from the GSA FAS National Customer Service Center by phone at 1-800-488-3111 or by email at ncsccustomer.service@gsa.gov; and
  - (2) **See GSA website, Schedule 51 V Hardware Superstore-Equipment Rental, (<I>https—** //www.gsa.gov/buying-selling/products-services/industrial-products-services/rental-of-industrial-equipment).
- (c) **For additional OMB guidance, see—**
  - (1) [Section 13](/cfr/48/13.md), Special Guidance for Lease-Purchase Analysis, and paragraph 8.c.(2), Lease-Purchase Analysis, of OMB Circular A-94, Guidelines and Discount Rates for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Federal Programs, (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/legacy_drupal_files/omb/circulars/A94/a094.pdf); and
  - (2) Appendix B, Budgetary Treatment of Lease-Purchases and Leases of Capital Assets, of OMB Circular A-11, Preparation, Submission, and Execution of the Budget, (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/app_b.pdf).

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 42124, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 54 FR 29280, July 11, 1989; 61 FR 41468, Aug. 8, 1996; 62 FR 40236, July 25, 1997; 77 FR 56743, Sept. 13, 2012; 86 FR 31072, June 10, 2021; 88 FR 25477, Apr. 26, 2023]

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42124, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 42124, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 54 FR 29280, July 11, 1989; 61 FR 41468, Aug. 8, 1996; 62 FR 40236, July 25, 1997; 77 FR 56743, Sept. 13, 2012; 86 FR 31072, June 10, 2021; 88 FR 25477, Apr. 26, 2023]