Insight Newsletter

Advanced Notice for MAS Refresh 6 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 # 6 and an associated mass...

Biden Taps Former Missouri Secretary of State to Lead GSA President Biden announced on Tuesday afternoon his intent to nominate the former secretary of state of Missouri to be head of the General Services Administration. Robin Carnahan served as Missouri secretary of...

GSA Expects Multiple Award Schedule Consolidation Finished this Year The General Services Administration expects to complete the third and final phase of its project consolidating 24 schedules for products, services and solutions into one Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)...

The OASIS follow-on: BIC MAC — The Conversation Continues! Over the last three months, the General Services Administration has been engaging stakeholders across the procurement community, sharing its initial thoughts on the potential acquisition strategy for the One...

IRS Offers First Look at $2.6B Contract Touching All Its IT Systems The IRS is building a $2.6 billion IT support contract with the potential to touch every major tax system managed by the U.S. government. The agency released a request for information for the new...

GSA Kicks Off Two-year Effort to Innovate Service Contracting beyond OASIS Let’s get the jokes about the General Services Administration’s working title of its new services governmentwide acquisition contract out of the way. Today it’s known as a BIC MAC—Best-in-Class...

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...