The Defense Department released the final rule for the long-awaited Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program today, further paving the way for CMMC requirements to show up in contracts starting next year. The final CMMC program rule was released for public... read more
The GSA should strengthen its price analyses when consolidating multiple award schedule contracts “so customer agencies can rely on MAS pricing to ensure that their orders will result in the lowest overall cost alternative,” an inspector general report has said. The... read more
Mass Modification A885 was issued to incorporate the latest version of the MAS Solicitation (Refresh #22) and was initially released mid-August 2024. Acceptance of this modification is mandatory and the deadline for accepting this modification is 90 days after the... read more
The U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) Categories announced the first phase of apparent awardees for three separate socioeconomic contracts for the new One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus... read more
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration (GSA) joins Roger Waldron of the Coalition for Government Procurement’s Off the Shelf for a focused discussion on GSA’s current procurement policy priorities. Koses talks about the... read more
The Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) has decided to make GSA eBuy the mandatory task order solicitation tool for the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+) program. This decision was made after careful... read more
Presented below is an update on the overall OASIS+ award timeline as well as information to help Federal agencies acquire a full range of (non-IT) services to meet their mission requirements. OASIS+ Small Business On August 13, 2024, the Office of Professional... read more
The Trade Agreements Act (TAA) (along with its cousin, the Buy American Act) is one of the more complex acts to deal with in federal government contracting. We have taken a look at the TAA before, noting that it does not apply to small business... read more
On August 5, 2024, the General Services Administration (GSA) took a step forward by publishing a final rule to “standardize and simplify the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) clauses for economic price adjustments.” The final rule consolidated procedures spread across... read more
NASA published Amendment 9 to the SEWP Solicitation. This Amendment corrected an error in Amendment 8, where the updated Exhibits 3a, 4, and 5 were published in PDF format rather than the proper Excel format. There were no other material changes. NASA’s announcement... read more
