SA thanks industry stakeholders who responded to the RFI on the MAS Offer Submission Process which closed on June 30, 2022. GSA received a total of 89 completed responses from current Schedule holders, most of which were small businesses. Your thoughts and ideas... read more
The Gormley Group is proud to announce that Sean Nulty has been promoted to Senior GSA Schedule Consultant. As a Senior GSA Consultant at The Gormley Group (TGG), Sean provides advice and guidance from new offer development to contract management under the General... read more
The Statewide Procurement Division’s (SPD) Texas Multiple Award Schedule (TXMAS) Program establishes TXMAS contracts to supplement SPD Term Contracts. The TXMAS Program adapts existing, competitively awarded, governmental contracts such as GSA or VA Schedule contracts... read more
In 2021, President Biden set forth an ambitious target: to increase the share of government contracts awarded to small disadvantaged businesses by 50%. The focus on increasing federal small disadvantaged business contracting comes at the same time that the government... read more
The deadline to object is September 19. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that it plans to release Type 2 (or consolidated) EEO-1 Reports of all federal contractors for the past 5 years in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.... read more
On July 27, GSA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit on the use of the 4P Tool by the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) when performing price analyses for Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts. The 4P Tool was developed by FAS to help the organization... read more
This week on Off the Shelf, Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, shared his insights, analysis, and observations on the state of governmentwide contracting, with a focus on GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. Gormley provided his take on the impact... read more
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued an alert memorandum detailing that the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to expand the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Rule to the entire Multiple Award... read more
The Small Business Administration will provide small businesses with new ways to show past performance ratings to compete for prime federal contracts starting Aug. 22, 2022. A new final rule, published Friday by SBA in the Federal Register, offers small businesses two... read more
A GSA Schedule Contractor Teaming Arrangement (CTA) is an arrangement in which two or more Schedule contract holders partner with one another to provide a total solution to meet a buyer’s needs. By teaming together, GSA Schedule Contractors are able to meet a... read more
