Insight Newsletter

The PRC – Opportunity continues to knock - On May 28, the General Services Administration published a notice in the Federal Register seeking input from industry regarding the extension of GSA Acquisition Regulation clauses 552.216-75, “Transactional Data Reporting,”...

GAO’s Top 10 Agency Legacy Systems in Need of Modernization - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified 10 agency legacy systems in most critical need of modernization in a June 11 report. Download Newsletter

GSA IG Reviews IT Reseller Contracts - The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the General Services Administration (GSA) has released a report detailing its findings from a recent review of GSA’s management of contracts for resellers on IT Schedule 70.  To read...

GSA Announces FAST Conference for April 2020 - On Thursday, May 16, GSA Administrator Emily Murphy provided the Keynote Address at the Coalition’s 2019 Spring Training Conference. During her remarks, Administrator Murphy announced that GSA will be hosting a Federal...

WDOL.gov Officially Decommissions on June 13 - The federal website Wage Determinations OnLine.gov (WDOL.gov) will decommission on June 13, 2019. That makes three down and seven to go in our effort to combine 10, independent websites into one, streamlined system.  If...

GSA taking the bite out of buying commercial products - By the end of 2019, the General Services Administration plans to begin testing the first online marketplace to see if the government can buy commercial items more easily.GSA laid out its plans Thursday to...

OMB issues a new model for federal shared services - The Office of Management and Budget issued a shared services policy Friday designating four initial agencies as leads on governmentwide standardization efforts around technology and other common solutions. Through...

How GSA is making software contracts more like commercial sales - The General Services Administration has adjusted some components of its IT Schedule 70 contract, the federal government’s largest IT purchasing vehicle, to give agencies a more efficient way to buy...

GSA Releases Q&A Document on New Sales Reporting Portal - The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories has released a questions and answers (Q&A) document from its recent Industry Partner Briefing on...

GSA’s acquisition systems modernization effort buoyed by new contract writing system -   GSA released a notice to industry through eBuy on March 28 detailing its initial plans to work with industry on a modernized tool. GSA said phase 1 will kick off with an April 18...