Eliminating the Price Reduction Clause is an Opportunity to Increase Competition Last week’s far-reaching Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy included language that carried implications for government procurement generally, including... read more
Section 889 Part B Redux: What Are Contractors’ Compliance Obligations in 2021? In July 2020, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council published the interim final rule implementing Section 889(a)(1)(B) (Section 889 Part B) of the John S. McCain National... read more
GSA Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Rejects IG Recommendation to End Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Program Last month, as detailed in our prior advisory, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced that the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR)... read more
Advocacy Group Asks Biden Administration to Consider 7 Reforms for Governmentwide Contracts A group of federal contractors want to see the governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, program process improved for innovative and non-traditional vendors. The Biden... read more
GSA Set to Alter Cloud Buying Landscape with New Policy Since agencies began to talk about moving to the cloud in 2010, public and private sector advocates played up the idea that programs could “pay by the drink” or buy services on a consumption basis. The fact is,... read more
This week on Off the Shelf, Bill Gormley, President of The Gormley Group, and Tom Sisti, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at the Coalition for Government Procurement, provide a mid-year update on current programmatic, policy, and market trends in federal... read more
Small Business GWACs: A History of Success in Promoting Governmentwide Opportunities for Small Businesses The Biden administration’s focus on enhancing opportunities for small businesses provides a timely occasion for federal managers to take stock of current... read more
GSA Posts 2nd New Services IDIQ RFI on SAM.gov On June 2, 2021, GSA’s Office of Professional Service and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) posted the second request for information (RFI) for the new services multi-agency contract (MAC) contract on SAM.gov The second... read more
FSS BPAs: Back to the Future or ‘Déjà vu all over again!’ On May 13, the General Services Administration issued a request for information (RFI) seeking industry feedback on a “governmentwide cloud acquisition strategy and Blanket Purchase Agreement.” The RFI details... read more
President Biden’s Recent Cybersecurity Executive Order Will Increase Compliance Obligations on the Private Sector Companies providing information technology products and services to U.S. government agencies are now required to notify such agencies of cyber incidents... read more
