The General Services Administration is driving what it hopes to be a final nail in the LPTA coffin. As one of three major acquisition policy changes GSA is seeking over the next year, the proposal would remove language in the schedules program that many blame for why...
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Advanced Notice for MAS Refresh 18 and Upcoming Mass Modification – November 2023
The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to issue GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47QSMD20R0001 - Refresh # 18 and an associated mass modification (mass mod) to all existing contracts in December 2023....
Tuesday Insight – November 21st, 2023: GSA Issues a Proposed Rule to Permanently Maintain the Pandemic-Era Changes to the Economic Price Adjustment Clause
The General Services Administration (GSA) conducts routine reviews of its acquisition regulations and acquisition policies and procedures. The review indicated a need to standardize and simplify the Schedule clause for economic price adjustments. The Schedule program,...
Tuesday Insight – November 7th, 2023: New GSA MAS Contract Mod “Close Contract For New Awards” Enhances Transparency
A new modification type, Close Contract for New Awards, is now available in eMod. This mod allows contractors to notify potential and current customers of their MAS contract status for accepting new orders due to end of contract period approaching, business issues, or...
Tuesday Insight – October 30th, 2023: Is Your GSA Contract Eligible for Transition to the New FAS Catalog Platform?
GSA has begun to notify eligible Schedule holders that are eligible for transition to the new FAS Catalog Platform (FCP), this will be GSA’s modern replacement for the Schedule Input Program (SIP). The FCP is a new application that GSA hopes will streamline the...
Tuesday Insight – October 24th, 2023: The GSA FAS Realignment: Opportunities for ‘Dead Easy?’
With the start of the new fiscal year (FY24), the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) launched its much-anticipated organizational realignment. The realignment breaks down regional stovepipes across FAS, creating a more customer focused structure to support federal...
Tuesday Insight – October 17th, 2023: Mark Your Calendars: EEO-1 Reporting Season Is Almost Here!
Ready or not, reporting season is right around the corner. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that the 2022 EEO-Component 1 data collection will open on Tuesday, October 31, 2023, and the deadline for employers to file is Tuesday,...
Tuesday Insight – October 10th, 2023: DOL Increases Hourly Minimum Wage to $17.20 for Federal Contractors Starting January 1, 2024
Beginning on January 1, 2024, Executive Order 14026 (Order) will raise the minimum wage for workers performing work on or in connection with covered contracts to from $16.20 to $17.20 per hour, a second year of a significant adjustment to the minimum wage for service...
Tuesday Insight – October 3rd, 2023: Federal Acquisition Service’s New Structure Seeks to Break Down Long-Held Fiefdoms
Over the last 18 months, the General Services Administration has been asking some hard questions, mostly about itself. What does the Federal Acquisition Service need to look like? Does the current regional structure make sense anymore? A group of leaders and employees...
GSA Extends Policy Providing Inflation Relief – August 30, 2023
On Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, GSA’s Senior Procurement Executive Jeff Koses and GSA’s Assistant Commissioner for FAS Office of Policy and Compliance Mark Lee jointly signed Supplement 3 of Acquisition Letter MV-22-02, which extends the expiration of the temporary...
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