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Multiple award schedule consolidation is all about breaking down barriers, eliminating stovepipes, and streamlining procurement processes.
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the state of government-wide contracting in 2021.
In today's Federal Newscast, GSA is removing all drones from Multiple Award Schedule Contracts that do not have the approval of the Defense Department.
FAS outlined three goals of the Services Marketplace initiative, while setting forth a series of efforts to achieve the goals. Chief among them are rationalizing, aligning, and expanding GSA’s GWAC, Multiple Award Contract, and MAS service contract offerings.
This week marked the Autumnal Equinox, and change is in the air. It also signals that we are approaching the end of the government fiscal year.
A year after a critical inspector report found McKinsey and Company’s prices were 10% higher than originally proposed, GSA decided to end the firm’s schedule contract.
GSA has an opportunity to take the Multiple Award Schedule program to the next level, bringing 21st-century solutions to the federal customer and reforming a policy that is stuck in the 1980s.
Federal Acquisition Service and the GSA IG formed a working group to improve the value of pre-award audits under the MAS program. Roger Waldron writes why the establishment of the working group is a positive development.
Roger Waldron of the Coalition for Government Procurement says the MAS Consolidation and Catalog Management is a common-sense vision can deliver innovative, best value, commercial solutions to meet customer agency needs.
Upon a return to more normal operations, GSA can address gaps in the solicitation that undermine the integrity of the federal market.
Field operations across the country remain on-hold through April 15. Meanwhile, the Census Bureau warned staffing adjustments at call centers may lead to increased wait times.
An old lesson had a new airing when a contractor challenged the set-up of a blanket purchasing agreement.
This week on Off the Shelf, Alan Thomas, excecutive vice president for special projects at Trowbridge and former commissioner of the Federal Acquistion Service, joined host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of MAS consolidation, eCommerce and the state of the federal market.
At its core, a Jan. 31 executive order seeks to fundamentally address the integrity of the supply chain and e-commerce. Among the potential measures to be employed against entities that facilitate counterfeit trafficking is suspension and debarment from federal procurement.