Insight Newsletter

Schedules Consolidation – An Integrated Commercial Services Marketplace! GSA’s Schedules Consolidation initiative continues apace, with the agency and its contractors implementing Phase 3, the consolidation of multiple schedule contracts into a single contract for...

DOL Publishes Guidance on Diversity Training Executive OrderOn September 22, 2020, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13950 (the Order) prohibiting workplace training that involves “sex stereotyping” or “scapegoating.”  The Order is applicable to federal...

Independent Contractor v. Employee: DOL Releases Proposed Rule Clarifying Test for Classification of WorkersOn September 22, 2020, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) released a long-awaited proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) providing guidance for...

10 Tantalizing Topics Testing Procurement in the New Fiscal Year This week marked the Autumnal Equinox, and change is in the air. The leaves are beginning to fall to the ground, the morning air is turning crisp, the days are getting shorter — all signaling that we are...

FPDS Reports Transition Oct 17: What are the Differences Between Standard and Ad Hoc Contract Data Reports Contract data reports capabilities are transitioning from FPDS.gov to beta.SAM.gov on October 17, 2020. At that time, the FPDS reports module will retire and...

Schedule Contractors must Update their Catalog to MAS by October 31, 2020 and New Monthly Office Hours REMINDER: To be in full compliance with the MAS Consolidation Mass Mod A812, all contractors must complete these two important steps: 1. Update their catalog in GSA...

New World of the Multiple Award Schedule Program If your awareness of GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule or MAS program stops with the year 2019 - or earlier - it’s time to give us another look. 2019 is when the world of the Multiple Award Schedules program began to morph...

GSA Finally Pushing Price Competition to Where it Belongs: At the Task Order Level Emily Murphy, the General Services Administration’s administrator, uttered her “famous” words during her nomination hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...

The Latest Trends in ProcurementThis week on Off the Shelf,  Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group and chair of the Coalition for Government Procurement, provides and update on current trends in the federal procurement market. Gormley focuses his comments  on...

DOD gets Temporary Waiver from Chinese Tech BanThe Department of Defense has been granted a temporary reprieve from a law that bans the entire government from contracting with companies that use the technology of five major Chinese companies and their subsidiaries,...