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DoD is issuing a final rule to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to further implement 41 U.S.C. 1908, Inflation Adjustment of Acquisition-Related Dollar Thresholds. This statute requires an adjustment every five years of acquisition-related thresholds for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all urban consumers, except for the Construction Wage Rate Requirements statute (Davis-Bacon Act), Service Contract Labor Standards statute, and trade agreements thresholds. DoD is also proposing to use the same methodology to adjust some nonstatutory DFARS acquisition-related thresholds in 2015.  DoD does not expect this rule to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities because the rule maintains the status quo by adjusting thresholds for actual inflationary increases in the CPI.