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FPT is now Discontinued
GSA Discontinues its Formatted Product Tool (FPT) Pilot Program GSA has distributed its announcement about the agency’s decision to discontinue its Formatted Product Tool pilot program. Just as I was, contractors falling under the 58 I, 72, and 66 GSA schedule program...
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OASIS Pools Opening with New Solicitation
GSA recently posted they were on-ramping Pool 2 Certified Public Accountants, Tax Preparation, and other Accountants of the OASIS Unrestricted Contract. Now, GSA OASIS Small Business has announced an upcoming on-ramp opportunities for three Pools: Pool 1 –...
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Introduction to BIC – Best In Class Contracts
WHAT IS BIC? In December 2014, The Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a memo discussing a new strategic mission for federal acquisitions – a strategy focused on best value over lowest price. The strategic framework is Category Management and the...
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GSA’s New Pilot Promises Faster Awards
GSA released GSA Express, a new acquisition channel using the Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) procedures. GSA Express will look to align agencies needs for “innovative commercial items, including products, technologies, and services” through a less-restrictive and...
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ALERT: New Login Process for SAM.gov
IMPORTANT SAM.GOV UPDATES Following alleged fraudulent activity on the SAM website, GSA set up requirements to that authorized vendors needed to submit a notarized letter validating the Entity Administrator. This process, however, created some complications, backlog,...
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GSA Mass Modification for Order Level Materials is Coming
Beginning June 11-13, 2018; vendors should begin seeing mass modification invitations addressing Commercial Supplier Agreements (CSA)/End User License Agreements (EULA). Following the acceptance of the first modification, vendors will see a second mass...
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New Security Changes for GSA
Sunday evening GSA systems sent out a notification to all schedule holders that GSA systems have updated security for logins and that all GSA Contract vendors are required to reset their passwords before they will have access to GSA systems again. The new security...
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GSA Commercial Supplier Agreement Final Rule
The terms & conditions of standard Commercial Supplier Agreements (CSA) have been a point of frustrated negotiations in federal procurement for years. GSA has tried numerous times to create “fail charts” of terms that are at odds with the requirements set by statute...
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2018 Oasis on-Ramp IDIQ
OASIS IDIQ Contract Unrestricted on Ramp for 2018 for Pools 2 UPDATE: Pool 6 has closed as of June 2018. On May 9, 2018, GSA posted a pre-solicitation notice for an on-ramp for the OASIS indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Unrestricted (UNR) 5-year contract...
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Notice: Alleged Fraudulent Activity in SAM
Check your SAM Profile GSA is currently investigating alleged fraudulent activity on their System for Award Management (SAM) SAM.gov. Although it is believed that only a few registered entities are impacted, it is recommended, that registered entities check their bank...
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Introduction to The SBA’s Mentor-Protégé Program
A Path to Government Contracting One of the Small Business Administration’s mission is to continuously expand Federal contracting opportunities for Small Business. In 2016, they established the All Small Mentor-Protégé Program (ASMPP) to extend SBA approved...
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Leverage your GSA Schedule for State & Local Government Sales
You may not have considered all the ways that you can maximize the value of your GSA Schedule. Use your GSA Schedule contract to win State and Local business. There are direct and indirect means using your GSA Schedule as the contracting vehicle to sell to State and...
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New Draft Records Management Documents Seek Industry Feedback
The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) with insight from GSA is working to develop two draft documents to create efficiencies in records management acquisition and they need your input. The program is the Federal Electronic Records Modernization...
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New Sick Leave Requirement for Federal Contractors
Executive Order 13706 – Paid Sick Leave for Workers on Federal Contracts The Department of Labor released the latest Wage Determinations covering the Service Contract Act (SCA, now known as the Service Contract Labor Standards) July 25, 2017. The wage determinations...
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TAA Threshold Changes
Effective January 24, 2018; DoD, GSA, and NASA issued a final rule amending the Trade Agreement Act Thresholds. The threshold establish trigger points as which each trade agreement becomes effective for federal acquisitions. However, Federal Supply Schedules (GSA),...
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Micro-Purchase Changes to Threshold Can Increase Your Government Sales
Thanks to a recent change in the micro-purchase threshold if you sell products, training, or off-the-shelf solutions to any civilian agency (non-DoD), your competition was just significantly reduced! Last month, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act...
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GSA’s Approach to Launching an e-Commerce Platform
As part of our ongoing effort to keep our clients informed of changes in Federal contracting that affect their business, we wanted to tell you about a potentially important change. The Government is looking at doing business along the lines of an “Amazon-type”...
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Government Contractors Preparing for the Looming Shutdown
If Congress fails to pass an appropriations bill or a continuing resolution to fund the federal government by midnight January 19, 2018, Federal law mandates a partial government shutdown. Government Shutdowns are nothing new to contractors. As described before on our...
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