Insight Newsletter

GSA Gives Final Deadline for Transition from DUNS to Unique Entity ID The agency also confirmed that all current SAM registrants should have already been assigned their new identifier. The Biden administration is moving forward with the transition from a nearly...

Making Cost-Reimbursement Task Orders Part of the MAS Program Recently, this blog focused on the benefits of adding cost reimbursement capability to the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program so that contractors with commercial item goods and services on Schedule also...

Eliminating the Price Reduction Clause is an Opportunity to Increase Competition Last week’s far-reaching Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy included language that carried implications for government procurement generally, including...

Section 889 Part B Redux: What Are Contractors’ Compliance Obligations in 2021? In July 2020, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council published the interim final rule implementing Section 889(a)(1)(B) (Section 889 Part B) of the John S. McCain National...

GSA Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Rejects IG Recommendation to End Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Program Last month, as detailed in our prior advisory, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced that the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR)...

Advocacy Group Asks Biden Administration to Consider 7 Reforms for Governmentwide Contracts A group of federal contractors want to see the governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, program process improved for innovative and non-traditional vendors. The Biden...

Small Business GWACs: A History of Success in Promoting Governmentwide Opportunities for Small Businesses The Biden administration’s focus on enhancing opportunities for small businesses provides a timely occasion for federal managers to take stock of current...

GSA Posts 2nd New Services IDIQ RFI on SAM.gov On June 2, 2021, GSA’s Office of Professional Service and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) posted the second request for information (RFI) for the new services multi-agency contract (MAC) contract on SAM.gov The second...

FSS BPAs: Back to the Future or ‘Déjà vu all over again!’ On May 13, the General Services Administration issued a request for information (RFI) seeking industry feedback on a “governmentwide cloud acquisition strategy and Blanket Purchase Agreement.” The RFI details...

President Biden’s Recent Cybersecurity Executive Order Will Increase Compliance Obligations on the Private Sector Companies providing information technology products and services to U.S. government agencies are now required to notify such agencies of cyber incidents...