An Inside Look at Changes within the GSA Schedule Federal Acquisition Program On September 9th, 2020 Robin Bourne, Subject Matter Expert at The Gormley Group spoke on the Off the Shelf podcast hosted by Roger Waldron of the Coalition for Government Procurement. Robin...
GSA and VA Schedule Maintenance
Tuesday Insight – January 7, 2020
New MAS Consolidated Solicitation Refresh #1 - The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to refresh MAS solicitation 47QSMD20R0001. This refresh is tentatively scheduled for January 15, 2020 and will address some...
Tuesday Insight – November 5, 2019
Trump Revokes Obama Order That Had Limited Hiring Options for Some Contractors - To “promote economy and efficiency in federal government procurement,” the Trump administration on Thursday rolled back an Obama policy that had limited some contractors’ hiring...
Tuesday Insight – October 29, 2019
For 2020, DOL Raises Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors to $10.80 - The Department of Labor annually increases the minimum wage for federal contractor employees in accordance with Executive Order 13658. It recently noticed, via the Federal Register, that the 2020...
Tuesday Insight – October 22, 2019
How GSA plans to capture $6B in under-the-radar spending - Each year, federal agencies spend billions of dollars collectively making purchases using their federal government purchase cards or other micro-purchase methods, which receive little notice on a...
Tuesday Insight – August 13, 2019
GSA Update on FAST 2020 - GSA is hosting a national acquisition training conference for the Federal Acquisition Workforce and Industry from April 14-16 in Atlanta, GA. GSA stated that the purpose of the meeting is to strengthen the federal acquisition marketplace and...
Tuesday Insight – June 11, 2019
New Rule Streamlines GSA Schedules Program Clauses - Big News! General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) Case 2013-G502 Federal Supply Schedule Contracting (Administrative Changes) has been published as a final rule and became effective May 23,...
Tuesday Insight – June 4, 2019
GSA Announces Senior Level Appointments - The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announces Julie Dunne as Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Reynold Schweickhardt as Senior Advisor for Technology. Dunne and Schweickhardt, appointees of President Donald J....
Tuesday Insight – December 18, 2018
2018 the year of Multiple Award Schedules, what will 2019 bring? In many ways, 2018 has turned out to be the year of the GSA MAS program. GSA took a series of steps to streamline MAS processes and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the MAS program, which...
Tuesday Insight – July 18, 2017
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) making it even easier for VA acquisition professionals to access verified VA’s Vendor Information Pages (VIP) Veteran...
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