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
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
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
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
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
