[Note- BAA does not apply to the GSA Multiple Award Schedule Program but is an issue that is of importance to Federal Contractors.] Numerous changes to the Buy American Act (“BAA”) have been proposed and implemented in recent years, with another one coming this...
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Tuesday Insight – October 25th, 2022: The Nationwide Injunction on Contractors Vaccine Mandate is Lifted, But Agencies Told Not to Enforce It – Yet
A nationwide injunction on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors has been officially lifted, but the federal government told agencies to hold off on enforcing the mandate. In late August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that the...
Tuesday Insight – October 18th, 2022: GSA Leadership, IG Continue to Butt Heads Over Schedule Price Reasonableness
The long-standing debate over whether prices on the General Services Administration Schedule contract are “fair and reasonable” reached a new level of discord. GSA’s inspector general makes what some may say are a shocking series of recommendations about schedule...
Tuesday Insight – October 11th, 2022: GSA’s Inspector General Found the Transaction Data Reporting Program does not Guarantee Agencies are Getting the Lowest Contract Price Alternative.
The Office of Inspector General for the General Services Administration and the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service generally disagree about the success of the Multiple Award Schedule to guarantee agencies are receiving competitive contract prices. In particular, the...
Tuesday Insight – October 4th, 2022: Biden Signs Spending Bill that Averts Government Shutdown
President Biden has signed an interim funding bill to tide federal agencies over until mid-December. The House passed the measure Friday by a vote of 230-201, with ten Republicans joining all Democrats in voting to keep the government open. The Senate had approved it...
Tuesday Insight – GSA Extends Deadlines for Contractor Team Arrangement Modifications for the Packaged Furniture Schedule Subcategory
GSA announced the deadline to submit your Contractor Team Agreements (CTAs), to bring your contract into compliance with the new Packaged Furniture Subcategory requirements, has been extended to October 28, 2022. The previous deadline required the modifications to...
Tuesday Insight – September 20th, 2022: GSA Extends and Updates the Memorandum on Inflation
GSA released additional guidance to address delays processing Economic Price Adjustments (EPAs) in response to inflation on September 12, 2022, Background On March 17, 2022, Acquisition Letter MV-22-02 was issued by GSA to provide a temporary moratorium on the...
Tuesday Insight – September 13th, 2022: Procurement & the Acquisition Workforce
This week on Off the Shelf, Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration provides an update on the acquisition workforce, transactional data reporting (TDR), sustainability in procurement and the U.S. AbilityOne Commission. Koses...
Tuesday Insight – September 6th, 2022: GSA MAS Offer Submission Process Request for Information (RFI) Findings Now Available
SA thanks industry stakeholders who responded to the RFI on the MAS Offer Submission Process which closed on June 30, 2022. GSA received a total of 89 completed responses from current Schedule holders, most of which were small businesses. Your thoughts and ideas...
Tuesday Insight – August 30, 2022: How to Build and Maintain Sustainability in Government Contracting
In 2021, President Biden set forth an ambitious target: to increase the share of government contracts awarded to small disadvantaged businesses by 50%. The focus on increasing federal small disadvantaged business contracting comes at the same time that the government...
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