The SBA’s David Wm. Loines, Director Office of Government Contracting issued a memo to large business contractors extending the the time for submitting 2020 fiscal-year end Individual Subcontracting Reports and Summary Subcontract Report. The SBA memo states... read more
GSA Finally Pushing Price Competition to Where it Belongs: At the Task Order Level Emily Murphy, the General Services Administration’s administrator, uttered her “famous” words during her nomination hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs... read more
The Latest Trends in ProcurementThis week on Off the Shelf, Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group and chair of the Coalition for Government Procurement, provides and update on current trends in the federal procurement market. Gormley focuses his comments on... read more
Listen to Bill Gormley, President of the Gormley Group and chair of the Coalition for Government Procurement interviewed on Federal News Network Off the Shelf program. Bill provides updates on current trends in the federal procurement market. He focuses his comments... read more
DOD gets Temporary Waiver from Chinese Tech BanThe Department of Defense has been granted a temporary reprieve from a law that bans the entire government from contracting with companies that use the technology of five major Chinese companies and their subsidiaries,... read more
Multi-Factor Authentication Replace Digital Certification and PIN Requirements for Signing GSA Mass ModificationsThe General Services Administration (GSA) announced the elimination of the digital certification requirement for mass modifications, which will be replaced... read more
GSA MAS Consolidation Moves Into Final Phase to Consolidate All Contractors Down to One ContractThe U.S. General Services Administration today announced the successful completion of the second phase of its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) consolidation, a three part... read more
SBA looks to tighten up certification process for women-owned small businesses – Women-owned small businesses, take note: the Small Business Administration is changing the certification process for doing business with the federal government. Following a 2015... read more
GSA MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE AND NDAA 2018 SECTION 889 (a)(1)(B) – Effective August 13, 2020 Where Section (a)(1)(A) prohibited the SALE of certain telecommunications and video surveillance equipment and services, Section (a)(1)(B) prohibits the USE of such... read more
Helpful Hints for beta.SAM.gov: Searching by Phrase – GSA makes regular updates to beta.SAM.gov to improve your experience, such as recently improving the Help section. Following are some of the big changes they have made to help you get more relevant... read more
