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

Tuesday Insight – September 6th, 2022: GSA MAS Offer Submission Process Request for Information (RFI) Findings Now Available

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

TGG News – September 21st, 2022: TGG Announces that Sean Nulty has been promoted to Senior GSA Schedule Consultant

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

Texas Began Accepting TXMAS Offer Packets Again after Lengthy Closure on September 1, 2022

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

Tuesday Insight – August 30, 2022: How to Build and Maintain Sustainability in Government Contracting

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