The GSA should strengthen its price analyses when consolidating multiple award schedule contracts “so customer agencies can rely on MAS pricing to ensure that their orders will result in the lowest overall cost alternative,” an inspector general report has said. The...
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Tuesday Insight – October 1, 2024: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED: GSA Acceptance of Mandatory Mass Modification A885
Mass Modification A885 was issued to incorporate the latest version of the MAS Solicitation (Refresh #22) and was initially released mid-August 2024. Acceptance of this modification is mandatory and the deadline for accepting this modification is 90 days after the...
GSA Announces Three OASIS+ Socioeconomic Set-Asides Award Decisions – September 2024
The U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) Categories announced the first phase of apparent awardees for three separate socioeconomic contracts for the new One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus...
Tuesday Insight – September 24, 2024: Key Procurement Priorities at GSA
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration (GSA) joins Roger Waldron of the Coalition for Government Procurement's Off the Shelf for a focused discussion on GSA’s current procurement policy priorities. Koses talks about the...
OASIS+ to use GSA eBuy for Task Order Solicitation – September 2024
The Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) has decided to make GSA eBuy the mandatory task order solicitation tool for the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+) program. This decision was made after careful...
Tuesday Insight – September 17, 2024: GSA OASIS+ Program Update
Presented below is an update on the overall OASIS+ award timeline as well as information to help Federal agencies acquire a full range of (non-IT) services to meet their mission requirements. OASIS+ Small Business On August 13, 2024, the Office of Professional...
Some Assembly Required: GAO Addresses How Agencies Should Approach Trade Agreements Act Compliance – September 2024
The Trade Agreements Act (TAA) (along with its cousin, the Buy American Act) is one of the more complex acts to deal with in federal government contracting. We have taken a look at the TAA before, noting that it does not apply to small business...
Tuesday Insight – September 10, 2024: GSA Moves Forward with a New Economic Price Adjustment (EPA), Consistency is the Next Opportunity
On August 5, 2024, the General Services Administration (GSA) took a step forward by publishing a final rule to “standardize and simplify the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) clauses for economic price adjustments.” The final rule consolidated procedures spread across...
NASA SEWP VI – Amendment 9 Released
NASA published Amendment 9 to the SEWP Solicitation. This Amendment corrected an error in Amendment 8, where the updated Exhibits 3a, 4, and 5 were published in PDF format rather than the proper Excel format. There were no other material changes. NASA’s announcement...
NASA SEWP VI – Amendment 8 Significant Changes
With the recent NASA SEWP VI – Amendment 8 release The Gormley Group wanted to highlight several of the major changes to the RFP. We expect vendors will need to make some revisions to their current proposal packages, especially within Volume III. On proposal format...
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