The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to issue GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47QSMD20R0001 - Refresh # 25 in March 2025. Outlined below are the upcoming changes associated with Solicitation...
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Tuesday Insight – March 11, 2025: Driving Best Value Pricing – Let’s Go for a Ride
There are many variables that drive best value pricing. Suppliers take into consideration many factors, including pricing to address excess inventory, pricing to meet sales goals or drive market penetration, and pricing in response to the buyer’s requirements. This...
Tuesday Insight – March 4, 2025: Coalition for Government Procurement – Acquisition Reform through Best Value and the Schedule
The FoRGED Act is the procurement blueprint for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026. A section of the FoRGED Act contains language that will change the statutory authority for the General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) to...
Tuesday Insight – February 25, 2025: Coalition for Government Procurement – An Acquisition Reset: Deregulating to Deliver Best Value Mission Support for the American People
Unfortunately, the last 30 years have seen the determined, inexorable re-regulation of commercial item contracting. As highlighted in previous blogs, the number and scope of unique federal clauses that now apply to commercial item contracts render the term “commercial...
Tuesday Insight – February 18, 2025: FAR Review and Reform
In the spirit of procurement reform, efficiency and economy, and to be consistent with the Coalition For Government Procurement blogs in the prior weeks, the Coalition and its members have undertaken an effort to review the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), to...
Tuesday Insight – February 11, 2025: Government Procurement Efficiency List: Reducing Regulatory Burden
In keeping with prior Coalition for Government Procurement FAR & Beyond blogs on ways to improve the efficiency of the federal procurement process, this blog will focus on regulatory burdens that impose costs on government contractors and impede entry into the...
Tuesday Insight – February 4, 2025: SBA Resets Some Small Business Goals for 2025
The Small Business Administration removed agency specific prime contracting goals for prime awards to small disadvantaged businesses. Agencies have some new small business contracting goals for fiscal 2025 and they are more in line with traditional targets. The Small...
Tuesday Insight – January 28th, 2025: GSA Releases Modification to Schedule MAS Refresh 24 (A888)
Mass Modifications are administrative modifications that occur whenever the solicitation has been updated with new regulatory changes. GSA requires that all schedule contractors, review and accept the new and existing terms and conditions of the latest solicitation....
Tuesday Insight – January 21st, 2025: The Government Procurement Efficiency List
This focus on government efficiency provides an important opportunity for a holistic review of the procurement system. On Monday, the new administration begins with a focus on operational reform as represented by the Department of Government Efficiency (the DOGE)....
Tuesday Insight – January 14th, 2025: The Top Five Procurement Themes for 2025
We begin the new year with the top five procurement themes that will shape the federal acquisition marketplace in 2025 and beyond. Procurement Reform 2025 provides an opportunity to meaningfully reduce regulatory burdens and eliminate barriers to entry for commercial...
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