Bill Gormley, President of the Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf for an in-depth discussion of the top procurement issues impacting the General Services Administration Listen to the Interview Here read more
This week on Off the Shelf, Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy (CPA) and Tom Sisti, vice president, and general counsel of the Coalition for Government Procurement discuss key developments in acquisition policy programs. (L-R) Tim... read more
Notices have gone to some contractors who objected to the release. As we previously reported, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs received a Freedom of Information Act request for the consolidated EEO-1 Reports of all federal contractors from 2016... read more
GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) is pleased to announce the release of the draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the OASIS+ Program, bringing the agency one step closer to standing up the next generation Best-in-Class Multi-Agency... read more
Inflation seems to be held in a category all to itself recently in terms of intractable factors that impact the cost or price of federal procurement. Why is this? What makes it uniquely vexing when compared to other factors driving cost and price? In reality, nothing.... read more
It’s now November, and the General Services Administration still hasn’t fixed the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) transition to the new validation service that began in April. And as many as 50,000 companies and grantees still are waiting to fix validation issues that... read more
[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
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
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
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