Agencies are starting to implement and issue guidance to carry out the Biden administration’s vaccine attestation and testing protocols for onsite contractors. President Biden announced on July 29 that onsite federal contractors, as well as federal employees, must... read more
The SBA made numerous changes to its regulations in the past year, but the FAR Council has largely failed to keep pace. Then, earlier this month, the FAR Council published three final rules to implement long-awaited changes to the FAR’s small business contracting... read more
BACKGROUND: In March 2021, the GSA Office of the Inspector General released the report detailing their findings after an audit of the GSA Packaged Office Furniture SIN 33721P. Since the release of that audit report, the GSA Integrated Workplace Acquisition Center that... read more
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council published three final rules on Aug. 11, 2021, amending the FAR to implement changes mandated by various National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs) and to homogenize the FAR with regulatory changes made by the U.S.... read more
The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to issue GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47QSMD20R0001 – Refresh # 7 and an associated mass modification (mass mod) to all existing contracts in August, 2021.... read more
Look to GSA’s +$50 Billion Schedules Program The federal government’s total contract spending reached $682 billion in fiscal year 2020, a 14 percent increase from FY 2019 spending of $599 billion. Nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and not-for-profits (NFPs) that... read more
GSA Phase 3 Consolidation plans for those vendors with more than one current GSA Schedule is due December 31, 2021. Again this requirement only applies to those vendors with more than one GSA Schedule contract and is important to start the consolidation process as... read more
GSA Gives Final Deadline for Transition from DUNS to Unique Entity ID The agency also confirmed that all current SAM registrants should have already been assigned their new identifier. The Biden administration is moving forward with the transition from a nearly... read more
Making Cost-Reimbursement Task Orders Part of the MAS Program Recently, this blog focused on the benefits of adding cost reimbursement capability to the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program so that contractors with commercial item goods and services on Schedule also... read more
