Tuesday Insight – August 2, 2022: SBA Publishes New Rule Designed to Help Small Federal Contractors Demonstrate Prior Experience

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

Contractor Teaming Arrangements (CTA) – Responsibilities and Elements

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

ACTION REQUIRED of All GSA Package Furniture SIN Holders – Updated July 2022

GSA with the release of Solicitation Refresh 10 to the MAS Schedule back on March 22, 2022, required all vendors holding the SIN 33721P – Packaged Office Furniture to submit Schedule Level Contractor Teaming Agreements (CTAs) to GSA via modification. The CTA... read more

Tuesday Insight – July 19th, 2022: GSA Provides Industry with Advanced Notice for MAS Refresh 14

Following the the release of GSA Solicitation Refresh 13 this past week, GSA has already announced Refresh 14 will be released sometime in July 2022. Refresh 14 will temporarily close the Core Financial Management Solutions (Core FS) Subgroup of SIN 518210FM to new... read more

Tuesday Insight – July 12th, 2022: Modification to Schedule MAS Refresh 13 – Released as Mass Mod A847

GSA has been emailing authorized negotiators for those contractors holding GSA MAS contract regarding mass mod A847 during the past week. The changes include the addition/updated of FAR clauses, including Contractors that have not yet accepted the modification to... read more

Tuesday Insight – July 5th, 2022: GSA Hits the Play Button on POLARIS by Finalizing Solicitation Updates

After nearly a two-month pause, the POLARIS small business IT services governmentwide acquisition contract is back in play. The General Services Administration re-released the solicitation on June 30 with updates to the mentor-protégé and joint venture experience... read more

GSA MAS Refresh 13 – Significant Changes Questions and Answers

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GSA MAS Refresh 13 – Significant Changes Document

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Tuesday Insight – June 21, 2022: GSA Eyes Early Alliant 3 Release

The General Services Administration plans to release an Alliant 3 draft request for proposals in the coming months potentially increasing the ceiling of the acquisition contract for IT. Alliant 3 remains in the market research phase as GSA considers the ceiling... read more

Tuesday Insight – June 28, 2022: OASIS+ or OASIS-Plus? Either way, GSA puts the next generation services contract on the fast track

Just when you thought government contracting was about to get fun, again, the General Services Administration decided boring is the right approach. That’s right, I’m saying government procurement and fun in the same sentence because we had an upcoming contract that... read more