The Veterans Affairs Department is turning up the scrutiny for all of its information technology, professional services and any other new contracts valued at least at $10 million. A new memo from Joseph Maletta, the acting principal executive director in the Office of...
GSA and VA Schedule Policy Updates
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...
Tip of the Month – February/March 2025: GSA Advantage Transition to FCP Expands in 2025
GSA Advantage Transition to FCP Expands in 2025 The FAS Catalog Platform (FCP) is a web-based application that is intended to replace GSA’s legacy Schedule Input Program (SIP) and EDI-832 by integrating the GSA Advantage data management function within the eMod...
Upcoming Transition of VA FSS Sales Reporting and Industrial Funding Fee Remittance Portal
Upcoming Transition of VA FSS Sales Reporting and Industrial Funding Fee Remittance Portal VA FSS is working in collaboration with General Services Administration (GSA) to modernize systems, standardize processes, and streamline the user experience. As part of these...
Off the Shelf – June 8th, 2023: A GSA Acquisition Policy Update
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, joined host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf to give an update on GSA’s key acquisition policy priorities, including the latest on transactional data reporting (TDR), economic...
Removal of Highly Competitive Pricing Language from GSA Solicitation
The GSA MAS solicitation had until recently included the following price evaluation statement for determining pricing under GSA Schedule and that was followed by contracting officers in negotiations: GSA seeks to obtain the offer’s best price based on its evaluation...
‘Pathways’ to the GSA Federal Acquisition Service’s North Star Goals
‘Pathways’ to the Federal Acquisition Service’s North Star Goals In leading the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Commissioner Sonny Hashmi has established “North Star goals” for the organization in its efforts to support customer...
Tuesday Insight – September 20th, 2022: GSA Extends and Updates the Memorandum on Inflation
GSA released additional guidance to address delays processing Economic Price Adjustments (EPAs) in response to inflation on September 12, 2022, Background On March 17, 2022, Acquisition Letter MV-22-02 was issued by GSA to provide a temporary moratorium on the...
Tuesday Insight – September 13th, 2022: Procurement & the Acquisition Workforce
This week on Off the Shelf, Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration provides an update on the acquisition workforce, transactional data reporting (TDR), sustainability in procurement and the U.S. AbilityOne Commission. Koses...
Tuesday Insight – September 6th, 2022: GSA MAS Offer Submission Process Request for Information (RFI) Findings Now Available
SA thanks industry stakeholders who responded to the RFI on the MAS Offer Submission Process which closed on June 30, 2022. GSA received a total of 89 completed responses from current Schedule holders, most of which were small businesses. Your thoughts and ideas...
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