Understanding The SBA 8(a) Business Development Program

Understanding The SBA 8(a) Business Development Program

The SBA 8(a) Business Development program was developed to help socially and economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs gain access to the federal marketplace. The current goal for the federal government is to award 12 percent of all federal contracting dollars to those who participate in this program.

What is GSA Global Supply?

What is GSA Global Supply?

Are you familiar with GSA Global Supply? It is a US General Services Administration (GSA) program that provides federal agencies with access to a wide range of commonly purchased products through pre-negotiated contracts with suppliers.

What is a Mass Mod?

What is a Mass Mod?

Several times a year GSA will “refresh” or reissue the solicitation under which your GSA Schedule contract was awarded. When GSA refreshes the solicitation, many of your contract’s terms and conditions may require an additional action or change in the way your contract is managed. These new terms and conditions must be accepted in order to maintain contract compliance.

Inflationary Small Business Size Standard Increase

Inflationary Small Business Size Standard Increase

The Small Business Association (SBA) has reviewed economic trends and influences and released a final rule to allow for monetary size standards to be increased in line with inflation. This will benefit small businesses since it will allow them to continue to compete for government opportunities set aside for small businesses.

GSA Opens Path for Startups to Get on GSA Schedule

GSA Opens Path for Startups to Get on GSA Schedule

Young companies with a drive to operate in the federal space can now pursue a GSA Schedule contract. GSA has opened the opportunity for small businesses with less than two years of experience to obtain their Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract. The GSA schedule is the most popular Government-wide contracting vehicle in the public space and Coley has over 20 years’ experience helping companies obtain and maintain their GSA Schedules.

GSA $50B Polaris GWAC Revised Language Released

GSA $50B Polaris GWAC Revised Language Released

A revised Polaris release, a week before solicitation release, was met with great uproar when GSA revised the SBA Mentor-protégé Joint Ventures (JV) requirements. Many small businesses were concerned that the release provided SBA Mentor-protégé Joint Ventures too much...
GSA Plans Release of MAS Refresh #11

GSA Plans Release of MAS Refresh #11

With refresh 10 sent April 1st, it seems GSA has forgotten something, a scheduled refresh 11 is set to be released April 11th.    GSA Solicitation refresh 11 will be created to revise the COVID-19 vaccine mandate…again. The vaccine was mandated by...
What is the Micro Purchase Threshold?

What is the Micro Purchase Threshold?

The Micro Purchase Threshold (MPT) is the maximum dollar amount that an authorized buyer can purchase without having to go through acquisition bidding processes and they preferred method of payment is the Government Purchase Card. What this simply means, is that the...

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