Multiple Award Schedule

Host Roger Waldron talks with Jason Workmaster, partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge about the unique pricing policies and procedures of the $45 billion Multiple Award Schedule program. January 18, 2011

Host Roger Waldron will talk about the MAS program with Caroly Alston, general counsel for the Washington Management Group. October 4, 2011

Coalition for Government Procurement chairman Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron to talk about the coalition’s recently completed spring conference. May 1, 2012

Carolyn Alston, executive vice president and general counsel for the Coalition for Government Procurement, will talk about the multiple award schedule program. September 11, 2012(Encore presentation October 30, 2012)

David Dowd, a partner at Mayer Brown LLP, discusses three significant bid protests involving blanket purchase agreements.

In a letter to Tom Sharpe, the commissioner of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, three industry groups — the Coalition for Government Procurement, the Professional Services Council and TechAmerica — wrote that restricting communication between managers and contractors could have a “chilling effect” on managers’ role in the Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) program.

David Dowd, partner at Mayer Brown LLP, will give us his thoughts on the Mandatory Disclosure Rule, and other legal issues. April 8, 2014

Rather than take steps to freshen up its multi-billion-dollar multiple award schedule program, the General Services Administration seems to be making it more expensive for contractors. That’s what Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, discusses a critical issue driving unnecessary costs and other inefficiencies in the government’s purchase of products, including pharmaceuticals.

The six-year closure of Schedule 75 is impacting long-standing GSA industry partners whose contracts are expiring with no opportunity to submit a new offer to maintain contract coverage.