Congress is poised to overhaul the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System as it applies to Department of Defense contracts. The new DoD CPARS system will eliminate subjective performance assessments and focus exclusively on negative performance events. The...
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Finalized Increases to Micro-Purchase, Simplified Acquisition, and Other Thresholds – November 2025
The firm Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC noted last year that the FAR Council (DoD, GSA, and NASA) issued a proposed rule to adjust the statutory acquisition thresholds for inflation. Under 41 U.S.C. § 1908, the federal government must adjust these thresholds every five...
What Is Transactional Data Reporting (TDR)?
Introduction to GSA's Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Program If you're a government contractor with a GSA Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) Contract — especially in categories like IT, professional services, office products, or industrial supplies — you need to know...
Understanding Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs)
GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) accounted for 52 percent of GSA Schedule spending in 2024 and now recent FAR updates have made these acquisition methods even more valuable to government customers. What is a BPA? What is the...
Tuesday Insight – August 5, 2025: DOD Poised to Finalize CMMC Requirements for Government Contractors
For contractors within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), the time to ensure compliance with the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program (CMMC) 2.0 is now. DOD formally sent the final 48 CFR CMMC rule to the Office of...
Tuesday Insight – July 29, 2025: New OMB Memo Lays out GSA’s Plan to Consolidate Contracts
New rules that are coming will require agencies to use existing government-wide vehicles and best-in-class contracts before creating new ones. A new memo from the Office of Management and Budget describes how the General Services Administration will take over much of...
Use Capture Management and Competitive Intelligence to Gain Business Under Your GSA Schedule
In the competitive federal marketspace to truly thrive, contractors should strategically embrace in robust capture management and competitive intelligence. Capture management isn't just about responding to Request for Quotes (RFQs); it's a proactive, disciplined...
Urgent: Develop and Maintain Your Government Compliance Program – June 2025
The Gormley Group attended the Coalition for Government Procurement conference on June 25, 2025 and one legal panel in particular (The New Federal Market) drove home the point of prioritizing the development and maintenance of a compliance plan for any business...
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...
GSA FAS Catalog Platform (FCP) Town Hall Overview – January 2025
The GSA town hall conducted January 23, 2025 was the second in GSA’s series of trainings on services in FCP. Note FCP is the new GSA system replacing the current SIP program to add GSA text files and products to GSA Advantage. For vendors already in FCP, the...
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!