As discussed previously in this FAR and Beyond blog, the General Services Administration (GSA) has proposed to amend the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) of 1984 to adjust the statutory authority for the Federal Supply Schedule (Schedule) program by clarifying... read more
GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) and the OASIS+ program are excited to share that we have launched the first phase of our new OASIS+ website. This site is designed to provide buyers and sellers the information they need to... read more
The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to issue GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47QSMD20R0001 – Refresh # 21 and an associated mass modification (mass mod) to all existing contracts in May 2024.... read more
No discussion of the effective administration of Federal procurement can ignore the reality that the Executive Branch and Congress have leveraged the procurement system to affect important social policy goals. For example, leveraging takes place through the... read more
On April 22, 2024, GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) released Amendment 0006 in compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Case 2020-11, as prescribed in FAR 4.2306(c), and to incorporate solicitation changes to update... read more
Attention from GSA all current MAS Contractors! If you have two or more MAS contracts with the same Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), you may be a part of MAS Consolidation Phase 3 and need to take action to get down to one contract. Contractors who have not yet... read more
This week Jason Miller, executive editor at Federal News Network, joins Roger Waldron, President, Coalition for Government Procurement on Off the Shelf, for a wide-ranging discussion of the policies, regulations, legislation, trends, and programs shaping the federal... read more
Flow-down requirements are a unique, yet ubiquitous, feature of the federal acquisition system. Flow-down requirements impact prime contractors, subcontractors, customer agencies, contracting activities, and contracting officers. The Federal Acquisition Regulation... read more
The General Services Administration has issued a request for information to solicit industry input on how to better align Multiple Award Schedule pricing with commercial practices. The issuance of the RFI comes as GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service assesses existing... read more
NASA today released the SEWP VI RFP and can be found here, the current RFP submission date is July 11th, 2024 by Noon EST. The originally estimated timeline for submission was originally planned by NASA to be 60 days, but given the newly released due date vendors... read more
