As the increase in product and services costs started to hit the federal sector last year, the General Services Administration heard the complaints and frustrations of vendors for how long it took to modify schedule contracts, especially for adjusting prices to...
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The Gormley Group to Offer OASIS+ Proposal Preparation Support – January 2023
The Gormley Group will offer OASIS+ Proposal Preparation Support for both existing and new clients when the final RFP is released by GSA in Government Fiscal Q2 2023. The OASIS+ first draft solicitation was released on November 15th and is available here:...
Tuesday Insight – December 20th, 2022 TDR: Common Sense Policy Supporting the MAS Marketplace
Over the last 30 years, GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program has evolved from exclusively focusing on static, contract-level pricing to driving pricing, performance, and best value through competition at the task and delivery order level for agency specific...
Tuesday Insight – January 3rd, 2023: Budget for All: What a Way to Celebrate the Holidays
Congress passed its whole-of-government funding package just before the end of the year. This past March, I scoured the $1.5 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that funded the government through the 2022 fiscal year to unearth IT and cyber spending, as well as...
Off the Shelf – November 14, 2022: Procurement & The General Services Administration
Bill Gormley, President of the Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for an in-depth discussion of the top procurement issues impacting the General Services Administration Listen to the Interview Here
Tuesday Insight – November 22, 2022: GSA’s OASIS+ MAC Draft Request for Proposal Released November 15, 2022
GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) is pleased to announce the release of the draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the OASIS+ Program, bringing the agency one step closer to standing up the next generation Best-in-Class Multi-Agency...
Tuesday Insight – October 18th, 2022: GSA Leadership, IG Continue to Butt Heads Over Schedule Price Reasonableness
The long-standing debate over whether prices on the General Services Administration Schedule contract are “fair and reasonable” reached a new level of discord. GSA’s inspector general makes what some may say are a shocking series of recommendations about schedule...
Tuesday Insight – October 11th, 2022: GSA’s Inspector General Found the Transaction Data Reporting Program does not Guarantee Agencies are Getting the Lowest Contract Price Alternative.
The Office of Inspector General for the General Services Administration and the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service generally disagree about the success of the Multiple Award Schedule to guarantee agencies are receiving competitive contract prices. In particular, the...
Tuesday Insight – September 20th, 2022: GSA Extends and Updates the Memorandum on Inflation
GSA released additional guidance to address delays processing Economic Price Adjustments (EPAs) in response to inflation on September 12, 2022, Background On March 17, 2022, Acquisition Letter MV-22-02 was issued by GSA to provide a temporary moratorium on the...
Tuesday Insight – August 9th, 2022: The State of Governmentwide Contracting
This week on Off the Shelf, Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, shared his insights, analysis, and observations on the state of governmentwide contracting, with a focus on GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. Gormley provided his take on the impact...
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