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Small Business Gets A Competitive Bump
SBA Proposed Rule to Size Standards extends calculations from average of three year of receipts to five years. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) posted a proposed rule to modify its method for calculating annual average receipts used to determine size...
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Supreme Court Upholds Protection For Government Contractors In FOIA Requests
Good news for companies receiving FOIA requests for release of information. The Supreme Court carefully and narrowly defined what information can be deemed “confidential” and thus withheld or redacted from release. On June 24, in a 6-2-1 decision, the U.S....
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New Beta SAM.gov Will Merge 10 Existing GSA Websites
The GSA’s System for Award Management website (SAM.gov) is looking to make some massive updates in the future. SAM is the searchable federal database where vendors register in order to carry out any business with the government. The new vision for SAM is to eventually...
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New Consolidated Multiple Award Schedule Coming Soon & GSA wants Your Feedback
MAS Consolidation is happening as previously advised. Plans to consolidate all 24 GSA Federal Supply Schedules into one mega schedule beginning October 1, 2019. GSA has released an industry Request for Information on changes and formatting to the...
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Register For the New FAS Sales Reporting System
GSA’s Sales Reporting System Open to All As reported last month and in emails that you may have already received from GSA; GSA’s legacy sales reporting system is being terminated and existing users are being transitioned over to the FAS Sales Reporting System (SRP)....
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What is Best Value Source Selection
FAR 15.1 covers Source Selection Process and Techniques. FAR 15.101 covers the Best Value Continuum which provide guidance on when agencies should consider the Tradeoff process (Best Value) or Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable (LPTA) Source Selection. Best Value...
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What is Lowest-Priced Technically Acceptable Source Selection
The scourge of many professional service providers is the lowest priced technically acceptable (LPTA) source selection process. FAR 15.101-2 address LPTA source selection. Product vendors, especially those acted as resellers of widely available products, should...
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Can You Decline GSA Schedule Orders?
A new email pops into your Inbox. It’s an order off through your GSA schedule directly through GSAAdvantage. Your first thought is elation - the schedule program is working! You click the link to the POPortal and open the order. Something is wrong, the minimum order...
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Why GSA Wants to Increase of the Micro-Purchase Threshold
General Service Administration (GSA) and Office of Management & Budget (OMB) submitted the phase II report of their e-Commerce portal to Congress. The report responded to issues congress had tasked GSA with researching; as well as providing a few key statements...
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2019 NDAA Restricts Government Use of LPTA
Federal professional services firms should all breath a sign of relief— one of the many changes of the FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is the government-wide restriction on the application of Lowest-Priced Technically Acceptable (LPTA) as the basis of...
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GSA Schedule Consolidation Update
Last December, GSA has stated a new initiative to create one mega-schedule consolidating and housing all existing schedules. This will be a massive undertaking that, we believe, will streamline scope expansion for new and existing schedule holders. Today GSA has...
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Prepare For the New FAS Sales Reporting System
72A to be Terminated This Year (May 20, 2019 Update: Register For the New FAS Sales Reporting System) As many GSA Schedule contractors are aware by now, GSA will be retiring the 72a Sales Reporting System and will require current users to make a switch to the new FAS...
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Second Generation IT BPA out on eBuy
Information Technology Government Opportunity Released! The United States Air Force released a Request for Quote on March 04t, 2019 titled Second Generation Information Technology (2GIT) Blanket Purchase Agreement. The USAF has determined to make the 2GIT BPA a...
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What are Sole Source Contracts?
Sole Source Contracts are non-competitive procurements that allow a single supplier to fulfill the needs of the contractual requirements. Though Full and Open Competition is preferred in federal acquisitions, the use of a sole source can be highly valuable...
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Is it Now Easier to Enter the Professional Services Schedule?
The Professional Services Schedule (PSS) is making it easier to win new schedules and new SINs. The General Service Administration 00CORP PSS program announced that an upcoming March 2019 solicitation will streamline the solicitation and remove barriers to entry for...
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TXMAS Temporarily Suspending New Offers
The Texas State Procurement Division (SPD), which manages the Texas Multiple Award Schedule (TXMAS), has announced that “effective immediately, SPD has issued a hold on accepting all new TXMAS applications.” SPD cannot provide a guaranteed date to re-opening the...
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What A Government Shutdown Means for Contractors
While our executive and legislative branches are at a stalemate over budget priorities non-essential government actives will not be funded and as January 20th will usher in a new demographic break-out of party partisans; it is likely this issue will not be resolved...
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GSA Releases Plan for One Schedule
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...
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