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...
GSA and VA Schedule Policy Updates
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...
Tuesday Insight – August 16th, 2022: GSA OIG Releases Audit on Use of 4P Tool for Price Determinations
On July 27, GSA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit on the use of the 4P Tool by the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) when performing price analyses for Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts. The 4P Tool was developed by FAS to help the organization...
Tuesday Insight – July 26th, 2022: GSA FAS to Expand TDR Rule Despite Persistent Data Issues, OIG Says
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued an alert memorandum detailing that the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is planning to expand the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Rule to the entire Multiple Award...
Tuesday Insight – August 2, 2022: SBA Publishes New Rule Designed to Help Small Federal Contractors Demonstrate Prior Experience
The Small Business Administration will provide small businesses with new ways to show past performance ratings to compete for prime federal contracts starting Aug. 22, 2022. A new final rule, published Friday by SBA in the Federal Register, offers small businesses two...
Tuesday Insight – May 24, 2022: Don’t Have Two Years of Corporate Experience to Get on Schedule? Consider the Startup Springboard!
For years, GSA heard from industry partners that unique government practices such as the two-year corporate experience requirement for becoming a schedule contractor can be a barrier for small businesses, and particularly challenging for startups. The Startup...
Tuesday Insight – March 22nd, 2022: To Address The Impact of Inflation, GSA Issues Acquisition Letter to Reduce Restrictions on EPA Price Increases on GSA Contracts
On Thursday, March 17, 2022, GSA issued an Acquisition Letter (the Letter) —effective immediately—to allow for greater flexibility to increase prices on GSA contracts that include certain Economic Price Adjustment (EPA) clauses, and to establish a temporary moratorium...
The State of Government Contracting Programs – March 2nd, 2022
This week on Off the Shelf, Roger Waldron, President of the Coalition for Government Procurement (thecgp.org) interviewed Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners and discussed the state of the General Services Administration’s major governmentwide...
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