MAS March Madness: Increased Competition In Multiple Award Schedule Orders
By Alexander Major On March 16, 2011, the FAR Councils, heeding Congress’ mandate in Section 863 of the 2009 Defense Authorization Act, published an interim rule intending to ramp up competition for...
View ArticleFrom Attestation Reviews To Examinations: The GSA OIG Expands The Scope Of...
By Jonathan S. Aronie So there I was, just sitting there minding my own business. It was the third day of the GSA OIG’s site visit being conducted as part of a routine pre-award audit (or as the OIG...
View ArticleMAS March Madness 2012: Final Rule for Increased Competition in MAS/BPA Orders
By Alexander Major A year ago, we advised our readers of the interim rule intended to emphasize competition under GSA Federal Supply Schedule (“FSS”) contracts and FSS Blanket Purchase Agreements...
View ArticleWhat Happens In Vegas Doesn’t Seem To Stay In Vegas: A Different Take on...
By John Chierichella and Jonathan Aronie Note: The following post is adapted from the forthcoming 2012/2013 GSA Schedule Handbook, published by ThompsonWest, due out later this year. The past 12 months...
View ArticleCommon Sense Prevails Once Again: District Court FCA Ruling Serves As...
By Christopher Loveland and Jonathan Aronie While multi-million dollar False Claims Act (FCA) settlements paid by Government contractors get the lion’s share of the press, those with an attentive eye...
View ArticleNon-Protestable Task Order Procurement Decision Shuts Out Incumbent Contractor
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (“COFC”) serves as a reminder on the limits a contractor faces in protesting task and delivery order awards. In MORI Associates, Inc. v. United...
View ArticleAs GSA FAS Struggles to Reinvent Itself, Contractors Suffer
Note: The following post is adapted from the forthcoming 2015/2016 GSA Schedule Handbook, published by ThompsonWest, due out later this year. The last year has been a tough one for the GSA Multiple...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Hear VA Procurement Controversy This Fall
In a matter of keen interest to the small business community, last month the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States. The Court’s decision will hopefully...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Scope of Federal Supply Schedule Labor Category...
In a Federal Supply Schedule (“FSS”) procurement conducted under FAR Subpart 8.4, all items quoted and ordered by the agency are required to be available on the vendor’s schedule contract as a...
View ArticleWhat GSA Can Learn from the National Parks Service
Note: The following post is adapted from the forthcoming 2016/2017 GSA Schedule Handbook, published by ThompsonWest, due out later this year. Any way you look at it, 2016 will be an interesting year....
View ArticleHouse Armed Services Committee Takes Aim at GSA with Proposed Legislation
On May 18, 2017, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry introduced H.R. 2511, titled “The Defense Acquisition Streamlining and Transparency Act.” The bill drastically would change how...
View ArticleThe Future of COTS Procurement: The Proposed Section 846 Business Models
On March 16, 2018, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) and the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) released their Phase 1 Implementation Plan (the “Plan”) for “Procurement Through...
View Article“Portal of Portals” – GSA’s (Unwritten) Vision for COTS E-Commerce Marketplaces
Last month, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) and the Office of Management and Budget released their Phase 1 Implementation Plan (the “Plan”) for Section 846 of the National Defense...
View ArticleThe Future of COTS Procurement: Section 846 Industry Day Highlights
On June 21, 2018, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) and the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) held their second Industry Day concerning the implementation of Section 846 of the National...
View ArticleThe Future of COTS Procurement: Top 10 Questions from GSA’s Section 846 Phase...
On May 2, 2019, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) and the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) finally released their Phase 2 Implementation Report (the “Phase 2 Report”) for “Procurement...
View ArticleWhile You Were Social Distancing: GSA’s Progress On Section 846, Schedules...
Just as you’re probably tired of reading COVID-19 articles, we’ve grown tired of writing them. So, in an effort to party like it’s 2019, we’ve decided to survey the non-COVID-19 initiatives underway...
View ArticleAs GSA FAS Struggles to Reinvent Itself, Contractors Suffer
Note: The following post is adapted from the forthcoming 2015/2016 GSA Schedule Handbook, published by ThompsonWest, due out later this year. The last year has been a tough one for the GSA Multiple...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Hear VA Procurement Controversy This Fall
In a matter of keen interest to the small business community, last month the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Kingdomware Technologies, Inc. v. United States. The Court’s decision will hopefully...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Scope of Federal Supply Schedule Labor Category...
In a Federal Supply Schedule (“FSS”) procurement conducted under FAR Subpart 8.4, all items quoted and ordered by the agency are required to be available on the vendor’s schedule contract as a...
View ArticleWhat GSA Can Learn from the National Parks Service
Note: The following post is adapted from the forthcoming 2016/2017 GSA Schedule Handbook, published by ThompsonWest, due out later this year. Any way you look at it, 2016 will be an interesting year....
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