Insight Newsletter

We Already Have the Tool We Need to Get the Most Out of Federal Contractors It’s called CPARS, and we’re just not using it the way we should. Government services have never been more essential to the American people than they are today. The need for the government to...

Age-old Small Business Contracting Challenge Rears its Ugly Head, Again For the third time in five years, another court decision is opening the door to major changes to multiple award contracts. The Court of Federal Claims weighed in on the controversial “rule of two”...

‘Seeding the Schedules Cloud’ – What’s the Forecast? “Seeding the schedules cloud” means addressing 1980s-era Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) pricing policies that limit access to 21st-Century commercial solutions, especially leading-edge commercial technologies, like...

GSA Leadership Talks Priorities and Future of Trump-Era Initiatives The General Services Administration’s acting administrator and commissioner of the acquisition division discuss its technology programs, the beta.SAM migration, D-U-N-S transition, SolarWinds and...

US Government Contractors Beware: Evolving Buy American Requirements Signal Complex Future Legal Landscape Tuesday Insight Editor Note: The Buy America Act does not apply to the GSA Schedule (MAS) program, the applicable act is the Trade Agreement Act (TAA). The TAA...

21 for 2021: Opportunities to Improve Federal Procurement As we kickoff 2021, with a new administration and a new Congress, the Coalition for Government Procurement takes this opportunity to highlight 21 opportunities to improve the procurement system’s support of...

Biden turns to ‘Buy American’ Law to Aid US Manufacturing Order revises definition of U.S.-made products as president seeks to boost domestic manufacturing. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Monday to tighten “Buy American” rules to boost federal...

GSA Kicks Starts 2021 with an Acquisition Potpourri When it comes to federal procurement, the General Services Administration takes no off days. While the GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service employees will never be mistaken for elite athletes — where this concept of no...

What you Need to Know about the Polaris Draft Solicitation The General Services Administration released the draft solicitation for its Polaris small business vehicle just as 2020 was coming to an end and industry has nearly the entire month of January to respond....

GSA Releases Draft of New Government IT Services Contract Polaris The General Services Administration released the draft framework for its new governmentwide small business IT services contract, dubbed Polaris, including a list of service offerings covered under the...