Jeff Koses

GSA aims to make buying SaaS easier through new policy

GSA issued an acquisition letter detailing the certain conditions when contracting officers can buy cloud services with upfront payments.

Acquisition Policy

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4 major acquisition changes GSA is pursuing in 2024

Acquisition Policy

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Raw numbers don’t tell enough of the story about what the acquisition workforce needs for future success

Federal Report

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Agencies to get more than a dozen new cyber acquisition regs in the coming years

Acquisition Policy

A GSA acquisition policy update

Off the Shelf

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Can GSA, IG find common ground over TDR?

Reporter's Notebook

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One more step away from the acquisition regulation that most vendors hate

Acquisition Policy

Transactional data reporting: Providing data needed to facilitate program management

Commentary

GSA makes inflation adjustments a bit easier for contractors

Acquisition Policy

Procurement & the acquisition workforce

Off the Shelf

Polaris, Services MAC will be the first governmentwide contracts without maximum dollar values

Reporter's Notebook

GSA’s busy 2022 so far: Inflation, 876 and a new strategy

The Federal Acquisition Service has had a busy first six months of fiscal 2022, including trying to give contractors and agencies relief from inflation.

Reporter's Notebook

GSA set to alter cloud buying landscape with new policy

A new draft memo, GSA says using the consumption model for cloud services would increase competition, and encourage new entrants to the schedule program.

Reporter's Notebook

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the General Services Administration building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. An agency little known outside Washington, the General Services Administration, has held off on recognizing President-elect Joe Biden as the president-elect, denying him access to the money, offices and machinery routinely afforded to the incoming team. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

GSA claims success of TDR pilot, but industry experts not sold

Reporter's Notebook

Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, wrote in a blog post that the Transactional Data Reporting pilot proved it’s a worthy replacement for the dreaded Price Reduction Clause.