The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council has released new model deviation text as part of the ongoing Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Overhaul (RFO) Initiative, in accordance with Executive Order 14275 and OMB Memorandum M-25-26. The following RFO...
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It’s Time to Submit Your EEO-1 Data – May 2025
The 2024 EEO-1 Component Data Collection opened on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. The deadline to file the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 report is Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Filers should read the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 Instruction Booklet to ensure they are in compliance with the...
VA Sets New Rules for Contracts Worth More Than $10 Million – May 2025
The Veterans Affairs Department is turning up the scrutiny for all of its information technology, professional services and any other new contracts valued at least at $10 million. A new memo from Joseph Maletta, the acting principal executive director in the Office of...
Tuesday Insight – May 27, 2025: GSA Prepping Plans to Move NASA SEWP and NIH Contract Vehicles Under its Management
The General Services Administration is working with the Office of Management and Budget, NASA and the National Institutes of Health on transfer plans for several major governmentwide contracting vehicles through which more than $100 billion in spending on information...
Tuesday Insight – May 20, 2025: GSA’s Procurement Chief Details Administration’s Acquisition Reform Plans
Larry Allen’s expertise in government contracting spans four decades; three books he either authored or contributed to on the subject, and a college course he created and taught for several years at The George Washington University. In March, Allen was appointed as...
Tuesday Insight – May 13, 2025: Trump Administration Kicks Off Federal Acquisition Overhaul With New Website
The Trump administration has launched an effort to overhaul the Federal Acquisition Regulation with a focus on delivering a quicker, more efficient and less burdensome procurement process for federal agencies. To provide details on the progress of the so-called...
Tip of the Month – May 2025: Tariff’s and the GSA Schedule
For vendors that have pricing impacted by any of the recent tariffs, modifying your GSA Schedule contract to increase pricing is an available remedy. All GSA Schedule contracts contain an Economic Price Adjustment clause in the contract that allow for price...
Tuesday Insight – May 6, 2025: GSA Unveils New Unified Procurement Strategy
The General Services Administration aims to streamline the federal buyer-seller relationship with the launch of the new initiative.The General Services Administration launched its latest effort to overhaul the federal government technology acquisition process Tuesday...
Trump Administration to Consolidate Certain Domestic Federal Procurements into GSA – April 2025
The Trump Administration on March 20, 2025, issued an executive order titled "Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement" (the EO), which will result in a major change in the landscape of federal procurement by making the U.S. General...
Tuesday Insight – April 29, 2025: GSA Begins to Issue Unilateral Mass Mods for Removal of SINs
On April 25, 2025 GSA began to issue Unilateral Mass Mods for removal of SINs under Mod: #A892. All vendors with impacted SIN's slated for deletion will be receiving an notice from GSA via email from contract.mods@gsa.gov. SINs being deleted from the GSA Solicitation...
Ten Checkpoints - On the Way to Your GSA Schedule
Download our new step-by-step guide to learn the process for getting your own GSA Schedule!