A protest involving a now-deleted sustainability requirement is dismissed, but three other challenges go on and NASA cannot award the $60 billion IT contract until they are resolved. One protest involving NASA’s $60 billion SEWP VI contract vehicle has been dismissed,...
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Tuesday Insight – March 4, 2025: Coalition for Government Procurement – Acquisition Reform through Best Value and the Schedule
The FoRGED Act is the procurement blueprint for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026. A section of the FoRGED Act contains language that will change the statutory authority for the General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) to...
Legal Trends in Government Contracts
This week on Coalition for Government Procurement's Off the Shelf, Jason Workmaster, member and Government Contracts Practice lead at Miller & Chevalier, provides a wide-ranging update on key policy developments and legal trends in government contracts. Workmaster...
Tuesday Insight – February 25, 2025: Coalition for Government Procurement – An Acquisition Reset: Deregulating to Deliver Best Value Mission Support for the American People
Unfortunately, the last 30 years have seen the determined, inexorable re-regulation of commercial item contracting. As highlighted in previous blogs, the number and scope of unique federal clauses that now apply to commercial item contracts render the term “commercial...
Tuesday Insight – February 18, 2025: FAR Review and Reform
In the spirit of procurement reform, efficiency and economy, and to be consistent with the Coalition For Government Procurement blogs in the prior weeks, the Coalition and its members have undertaken an effort to review the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), to...
Tuesday Insight – February 11, 2025: Government Procurement Efficiency List: Reducing Regulatory Burden
In keeping with prior Coalition for Government Procurement FAR & Beyond blogs on ways to improve the efficiency of the federal procurement process, this blog will focus on regulatory burdens that impose costs on government contractors and impede entry into the...
Key Procurement Trends in 2025
Bill Gormley, President of The Gormley Group, joins The Coalition for Government Procurement's Off the Shelf for a discussion of some the key procurement trends of 2024 and what to expect in 2025. Gormley gives his thoughts on the key trends shaping interagency...
Tuesday Insight – February 4, 2025: SBA Resets Some Small Business Goals for 2025
The Small Business Administration removed agency specific prime contracting goals for prime awards to small disadvantaged businesses. Agencies have some new small business contracting goals for fiscal 2025 and they are more in line with traditional targets. The Small...
GSA Releases New FAS Catalog Platform (FCP) Feature – Catalog Dashboard: March 2025
During last week’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Catalog Platform (FCP) office hours specifically for vendors using FCP, GSA announced that it will be releasing a new Catalog Dashboard feature in FCP. The new dashboard feature allows Authorized Negotiators to see...
Last Minute Release of Amendment to NASA SEWP VI – RFP Submission Date Extended to February 24, 2025
NASA released Amendment 14 on February 19, 2025 to the SEWP VI RFP just before 1pm today. NASA indicated that the purpose of the Amendment is to provide updates to the SEWP VI RFP 80TECH24R0001. Additionally, Amendment 14 removes A.3.7.3(b)(2) Commitment to...
Ten Checkpoints - On the Way to Your GSA Schedule
Download our new step-by-step guide to learn the process for getting your own GSA Schedule!