Insight Newsletter

RFI Impacts on Professional Services Contractors -  Last week, the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories released the results of its recent industry survey, which sought to estimate the burdens associated...

President’s Management Agenda - On Tuesday, March 20, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the President’s Management Agenda (PMA), which provides a comprehensive strategy and vision for modernizing the Federal government.  Download our Newsletter to...

GSA's Acquisition Gateway Exceeds Goals - The General Services Administration (GSA) posted a blog announcing that the Acquisition Gateway has achieved its Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 performance goal for increasing the number of Federal users seven months ahead of schedule....

GSA says rule change will simplify Schedule buys, reduce proliferation of multiple-award contracts - A change to the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR), published last month, lets agencies buy what are known as “order level materials” (OLMs)...

GSA says rule change will simplify Schedule buys, reduce proliferation of multiple-award contracts - The General Services Administration believes it’s fixed at least one of the reasons behind a proliferation of overlapping indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity...

Regulatory Update: Commercial Supplier Agreement Rule Finalized, Class Deviation for Spending Threshold Changes, and VA Policy Update - This week, the General Services Administration (GSA) published its final rule to address inconsistencies between Federal law and...

Mark Lee, the Assistant Commissioner for Policy and Compliance of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), met with the Coalition’s IT/Services Committee and provided an update on GSA’s implementation of the Order Level Materials...

Early last week on Interact, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced an upcoming mass modification to implement changes to the Global Supply ordering process. Global Supply will no longer be accepting fax transmission of orders. Instead the Order...

GAO Reports on How Contracting Officers Select NAICS Codes - A newly released Government Accountability Office report provides a rare peek behind the curtain of how contracting officers assign North American Industry Classification System codes.  For more information...

GSA Releases Final OLM Rule - GSA has just released its final Order Level Materials (OLM) aka Other Direct Costs Rule which will help to further streamline the Schedules and reduce burdens on both Government and industry.  For more information please contact your TGG...