Tuesday Insight – November 1st, 2022: Buy American Act (BAA) Content Requirements Are Tightening Again, Are You Prepared?

[Note- BAA does not apply to the GSA Multiple Award Schedule Program but is an issue that is of importance to Federal Contractors.]  Numerous changes to the Buy American Act (“BAA”) have been proposed and implemented in recent years, with another one coming this... read more

Tuesday Insight – October 25th, 2022: The Nationwide Injunction on Contractors Vaccine Mandate is Lifted, But Agencies Told Not to Enforce It – Yet

A nationwide injunction on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors has been officially lifted, but the federal government told agencies to hold off on enforcing the mandate. In late August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that the... read more

TGG News – November 1st, 2022: Wade Prince has been named Chief Market Intelligence Officer

The Gormley Group proudly announces that Wade Prince has been named our Chief Market Intelligence Officer. In this new role, he will manage the gathering and analyzing of government market data to create innovative approaches for generating and delivering timely and... read more

Tuesday Insight – October 18th, 2022: GSA Leadership, IG Continue to Butt Heads Over Schedule Price Reasonableness

The long-standing debate over whether prices on the General Services Administration Schedule contract are “fair and reasonable” reached a new level of discord. GSA’s inspector general makes what some may say are a shocking series of recommendations about schedule... read more

Tuesday Insight – October 11th, 2022: GSA’s Inspector General Found the Transaction Data Reporting Program does not Guarantee Agencies are Getting the Lowest Contract Price Alternative.

The Office of Inspector General for the General Services Administration and the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service generally disagree about the success of the Multiple Award Schedule to guarantee agencies are receiving competitive contract prices. In particular, the... read more

Tuesday Insight – October 4th, 2022: Biden Signs Spending Bill that Averts Government Shutdown

President Biden has signed an interim funding bill to tide federal agencies over until mid-December. The House passed the measure Friday by a vote of 230-201, with ten Republicans joining all Democrats in voting to keep the government open. The Senate had approved it... read more

Tuesday Insight – GSA Extends Deadlines for Contractor Team Arrangement Modifications for the Packaged Furniture Schedule Subcategory

GSA announced the deadline to submit your Contractor Team Agreements (CTAs), to bring your contract into compliance with the new Packaged Furniture Subcategory requirements, has been extended to October 28, 2022. The previous deadline required the modifications to... read more

September 26, 2022: GSA Extends Deadlines for Contractor Team Arrangement Modifications for the Packaged Furniture Schedule Subcategory

GSA announced the deadline to submit your Contractor Team Agreements (CTAs), to bring your contract into compliance with the new Packaged Furniture Subcategory requirements, has been extended to October 28, 2022. The previous deadline required the modifications to... read more

Tuesday Insight – September 20th, 2022: GSA Extends and Updates the Memorandum on Inflation

GSA released additional guidance to address delays processing Economic Price Adjustments (EPAs) in response to inflation on September 12, 2022, Background On March 17, 2022, Acquisition Letter MV-22-02 was issued by GSA  to provide a temporary moratorium on the... read more

Tuesday Insight – September 13th, 2022: Procurement & the Acquisition Workforce

This week on Off the Shelf, Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration provides an update on the acquisition workforce, transactional data reporting (TDR), sustainability in procurement and the U.S. AbilityOne Commission. Koses... read more