After significant delay and compromise, Congress has finally set spending levels across government for fiscal 2023. The House on Friday passed by 225-201 the fiscal 2023 omnibus spending package, finally averting a shutdown through September and setting line-by-line...
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Tuesday Insight – January 3rd, 2023: Budget for All: What a Way to Celebrate the Holidays
Congress passed its whole-of-government funding package just before the end of the year. This past March, I scoured the $1.5 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that funded the government through the 2022 fiscal year to unearth IT and cyber spending, as well as...
Tuesday Insight – December 6th, 2022: CGP Discusses TDR as the “Next Logical Step” in the Evolution of the MAS Program
Roger Waldron, President of the Coalition For Government Procurement (CGP), appeared on Fedscoop’s Daily Scoop podcast to discuss Transactional Data Reporting (TDR), calling it the “next logical step” in the evolution of GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule program. In the...
Off the Shelf – November 14, 2022: Procurement & The General Services Administration
Bill Gormley, President of the Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for an in-depth discussion of the top procurement issues impacting the General Services Administration Listen to the Interview Here
Tuesday Insight – November 29, 2022: OFCCP Alerts Contractors to Release of EEO-1 Reports
Notices have gone to some contractors who objected to the release. As we previously reported, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs received a Freedom of Information Act request for the consolidated EEO-1 Reports of all federal contractors from 2016...
Tuesday Insight – November 22, 2022: GSA’s OASIS+ MAC Draft Request for Proposal Released November 15, 2022
GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) is pleased to announce the release of the draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the OASIS+ Program, bringing the agency one step closer to standing up the next generation Best-in-Class Multi-Agency...
Tuesday Insight – November 15th, 2022: Government, You Have the Authority to Deal with Inflation
Inflation seems to be held in a category all to itself recently in terms of intractable factors that impact the cost or price of federal procurement. Why is this? What makes it uniquely vexing when compared to other factors driving cost and price? In reality, nothing....
Tuesday Insight – November 8th, 2022: 50,000 Companies on Hold because of GSA’s SAM UEI Validation Problems
It’s now November, and the General Services Administration still hasn’t fixed the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) transition to the new validation service that began in April. And as many as 50,000 companies and grantees still are waiting to fix validation issues that...
Tuesday Insight – November 1st, 2022: Buy American Act (BAA) Content Requirements Are Tightening Again, Are You Prepared?
[Note- BAA does not apply to the GSA Multiple Award Schedule Program but is an issue that is of importance to Federal Contractors.] Numerous changes to the Buy American Act (“BAA”) have been proposed and implemented in recent years, with another one coming this...
Tuesday Insight – October 25th, 2022: The Nationwide Injunction on Contractors Vaccine Mandate is Lifted, But Agencies Told Not to Enforce It – Yet
A nationwide injunction on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors has been officially lifted, but the federal government told agencies to hold off on enforcing the mandate. In late August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that the...
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!