GSA Expects Multiple Award Schedule Consolidation Finished this Year The General Services Administration expects to complete the third and final phase of its project consolidating 24 schedules for products, services and solutions into one Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)... read more
The OASIS follow-on: BIC MAC — The Conversation Continues! Over the last three months, the General Services Administration has been engaging stakeholders across the procurement community, sharing its initial thoughts on the potential acquisition strategy for the One... read more
IRS Offers First Look at $2.6B Contract Touching All Its IT Systems The IRS is building a $2.6 billion IT support contract with the potential to touch every major tax system managed by the U.S. government. The agency released a request for information for the new... read more
GSA Kicks Off Two-year Effort to Innovate Service Contracting beyond OASIS Let’s get the jokes about the General Services Administration’s working title of its new services governmentwide acquisition contract out of the way. Today it’s known as a BIC MAC—Best-in-Class... read more
We Already Have the Tool We Need to Get the Most Out of Federal Contractors It’s called CPARS, and we’re just not using it the way we should. Government services have never been more essential to the American people than they are today. The need for the government to... read more
Beginning March 8th, GSA Schedule vendors will be able to use GSA’s FAS ID to log in to eOffer/eMod, and will no longer need digital certificates to access these applications. FAS ID is a secure, centralized identity management system that allows you to access many... read more
Age-old Small Business Contracting Challenge Rears its Ugly Head, Again For the third time in five years, another court decision is opening the door to major changes to multiple award contracts. The Court of Federal Claims weighed in on the controversial “rule of two”... read more
‘Seeding the Schedules Cloud’ – What’s the Forecast? “Seeding the schedules cloud” means addressing 1980s-era Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) pricing policies that limit access to 21st-Century commercial solutions, especially leading-edge commercial technologies, like... read more
GSA Leadership Talks Priorities and Future of Trump-Era Initiatives The General Services Administration’s acting administrator and commissioner of the acquisition division discuss its technology programs, the beta.SAM migration, D-U-N-S transition, SolarWinds and... read more
US Government Contractors Beware: Evolving Buy American Requirements Signal Complex Future Legal Landscape Tuesday Insight Editor Note: The Buy America Act does not apply to the GSA Schedule (MAS) program, the applicable act is the Trade Agreement Act (TAA). The TAA... read more
