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...
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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...
GSA Retiring SIN 561210FS Facilities Support Services – What you Need to Know
GSA announced on April 21, 2022, in the Advanced Notice for MAS solicitation Refresh #12, that SIN 561210FS (Facilities Support Services) would be retired on or about June 30, 2022. MAS Refresh #12, which was published on May 16, 2022, included a note in the...
Tuesday Insight – May 24, 2022: Don’t Have Two Years of Corporate Experience to Get on Schedule? Consider the Startup Springboard!
For years, GSA heard from industry partners that unique government practices such as the two-year corporate experience requirement for becoming a schedule contractor can be a barrier for small businesses, and particularly challenging for startups. The Startup...
Listen to Bill Gormley Discuss: The Inflation Challenge in Government Contracting
Listen to our very own, Bill Gormley, President of The Gormley Group, joined by the Off the Shelf host Roger Waldron provide an update on the key issues, opportunities, and challenges GSA contractors, and customer agencies are wrestling with in 2022. As Gormley...
GSA Revisions to the Packaged Furniture Program Announced – March 2022
GSA plans to release Solicitation Refresh 10 to the MAS Schedule, with this refresh GSA is making significant changes to the GSA Packaged Furniture Program. GSA is planning on releasing Refresh 10 on March 31, 2022. These changes are the result of a GSA Office of...
Tuesday Insight – March 22nd, 2022: To Address The Impact of Inflation, GSA Issues Acquisition Letter to Reduce Restrictions on EPA Price Increases on GSA Contracts
On Thursday, March 17, 2022, GSA issued an Acquisition Letter (the Letter) —effective immediately—to allow for greater flexibility to increase prices on GSA contracts that include certain Economic Price Adjustment (EPA) clauses, and to establish a temporary moratorium...
Updates and Actions Related to the Upcoming SAM and the New Unique Entity ID Changes
Starting Monday, April 4, 2022, the new Unique Entity ID (generated in SAM.gov) will be the official, governmentwide identifier used for federal awards. To reduce burden during the transition, there will be an automatic, 60-day extension for any existing SAM.gov...
Texas to Begin Accepting TXMAS Offer Packets Again on May 1, 2022
The Statewide Procurement Division’s (SPD) Texas Multiple Award Schedule (TXMAS) Program establishes TXMAS contracts to supplement SPD Term Contracts. The TXMAS Program adapts existing, competitively awarded, governmental contracts to service the procurement needs of...
Ten Checkpoints - On the Way to Your GSA Schedule
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