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...
Insight Newsletter
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...
Tuesday Insight – August 23, 2022: Contractor EEO-1 Reports Will be Released Unless Objection Filed
The deadline to object is September 19. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that it plans to release Type 2 (or consolidated) EEO-1 Reports of all federal contractors for the past 5 years in response to a Freedom of Information Act request....
Tuesday Insight – August 16th, 2022: GSA OIG Releases Audit on Use of 4P Tool for Price Determinations
On July 27, GSA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit on the use of the 4P Tool by the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) when performing price analyses for Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts. The 4P Tool was developed by FAS to help the organization...
Tuesday Insight – August 9th, 2022: The State of Governmentwide Contracting
This week on Off the Shelf, Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, shared his insights, analysis, and observations on the state of governmentwide contracting, with a focus on GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. Gormley provided his take on the impact...
Tuesday Insight – July 26th, 2022: GSA FAS to Expand TDR Rule Despite Persistent Data Issues, OIG Says
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued an alert memorandum detailing that the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to expand the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Rule to the entire Multiple Award...
Tuesday Insight – August 2, 2022: SBA Publishes New Rule Designed to Help Small Federal Contractors Demonstrate Prior Experience
The Small Business Administration will provide small businesses with new ways to show past performance ratings to compete for prime federal contracts starting Aug. 22, 2022. A new final rule, published Friday by SBA in the Federal Register, offers small businesses two...
Tuesday Insight – July 19th, 2022: GSA Provides Industry with Advanced Notice for MAS Refresh 14
Following the the release of GSA Solicitation Refresh 13 this past week, GSA has already announced Refresh 14 will be released sometime in July 2022. Refresh 14 will temporarily close the Core Financial Management Solutions (Core FS) Subgroup of SIN 518210FM to new...
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!