GSA and Government Contracting Insights

The General Services Administration has announced the consolidation of the 24 Multiple Award Schedules into one single products and services Schedule. This single Schedule will have only one set of terms and conditions, which will allow more consistency in contracting...

GSA IT Schedule 70 HACS SINs During today’s GSAs Interact Webinar for the new stand-alone Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) SIN 132-45, plans were discussed with industry detailing best practices for the upcoming Schedule 70 Solicitation Refresh. With this...

TDR Reporting For reporting a TDR service contract, filling out the fields is very simple. You just need to give a description of the deliverables (ex: Security Services), which is a mandatory field.  Next, you would need to input the unit price and quantity. This...

What is SRP? This new one stop-shop for TDR and 72A data will be a safe, secure and user-friendly portal to report both transactional and aggregate level data. Reporting is very user friendly to navigate as both monthly and quarterly contracts are visible, along with...

Automated Contact Center Solutions will soon be on GSA Schedule 70 GSA has been engaging with the IT industry since October 2017 to help define the terms and conditions of the new Automated Contact Center Solutions (ACCS) SIN. GSA recently announced that SIN 132 20...

GSA is seeking industry feedback on proposed changes to the Cloud Computing SIN 132 40. GSA released a Request for Information (RFI) through the eBuy system detailing the changes and specific questions to Industry. The purpose of the proposed changes is to revise the...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...