GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories’ (PSHC) OASIS+ program has made several updates to the new OASIS+ website. The updates provide buyers and sellers with information to access and use the new contract program. Recent updates include: A...
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Tuesday Insight – June 25th, 2024: FAR & Beyond: The Nexus Between Data Management Tools, Transparency and Procurement Policy
Data management tools, like pricing algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), are playing an ever-larger role in Federal procurement as agencies look to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and improve contract outcomes. Just last month, at the Coalition’s...
Tuesday Insight – June 18th, 2024: GSA IDIQ Update: Status of Alliant3, Polaris, and OASIS+
Three critical GSA Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts are all at different stages of development, though communication on just one of them is reasonably clear and consistent. The OASIS+ team routinely updates its Interact page, including three times in...
Tuesday Insight – June 11th, 2024: GSA Advantage & GSA Global Supply Combined Delivery Scorecards
Beginning June 20, 2024, your GSA Delivery Metrics Scorecards will look a little different. Monthly Distributions Our Supplier Accountability Office has combined the Advantage Order Status and the GSA Global Supply (GGS) Scorecard emails into one easy to decipher...
Tuesday Insight – June 4th, 2024: GSA Schedule MAS Refresh 21 (A883) Released to All Contract Holders
Please see the below updates within Refresh 21 (Mass Mod A883), see the attached documents that explain the changes to the solicitation. Mass Modifications are administrative modifications that occur whenever the solicitation has been updated with new regulatory...
Tuesday Insight, May 28th, 2024: NASA SEWP VI RFP Drops
NASA today released the SEWP VI RFP and can be found here, the current RFP submission date is July 11th, 2024 by Noon EST. The originally estimated timeline for submission was originally planned by NASA to be 60 days, but given the newly released due date vendors...
Tuesday Insight, May 21st, 2024: The Benefits of ‘Best Value’ for Small Businesses in the Federal Market
As discussed previously in this FAR and Beyond blog, the General Services Administration (GSA) has proposed to amend the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) of 1984 to adjust the statutory authority for the Federal Supply Schedule (Schedule) program by clarifying...
Tuesday Insight, May 14th, 2024: Advanced Notice for MAS Refresh 21 and Upcoming Mass Modification
The General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to issue GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47QSMD20R0001 - Refresh # 21 and an associated mass modification (mass mod) to all existing contracts in May 2024. NOTE:...
Tuesday Insight, May 7th, 2024: The Unintended Consequences of Policy and Data Overreach
No discussion of the effective administration of Federal procurement can ignore the reality that the Executive Branch and Congress have leveraged the procurement system to affect important social policy goals. For example, leveraging takes place through the...
Tuesday Insight, April 30th, 2024: Attention MAS Contractors: MAS Consolidation Phase 3 FY24 Plans
Attention from GSA all current MAS Contractors! If you have two or more MAS contracts with the same Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), you may be a part of MAS Consolidation Phase 3 and need to take action to get down to one contract. Contractors who have not yet...
Ten Checkpoints - On the Way to Your GSA Schedule
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