Guest Blogger: Jim Schweiter, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Last August, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Pub. L. 112-25). This law authorized raising the debt ceiling, established caps on discretionary spending, and put in place a process known as sequestration to implement a total of $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts [...]

Guest Blogger: Jim Schweiter, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Last August, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 (“BCA”)(Pub. L. 112-25).  This law authorized raising the debt ceiling, established caps on discretionary spending, and put a process in place to reduce the federal deficit.  The provisions to raise the debt ceiling have been [...]

Guest Blogger: Jay Gallagher & Phil Seckman, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Pursuant to an interim rule, published July 8, 2010, contractors awarded certain prime contracts and first-tier subcontractors under those prime contracts have been obligated to disclose, among other information, details regarding the total compensation of their five most highly compensated executives.  The interim rule [...]

GSA Schedule Option Extensions – A Time of Risk and Opportunity Guest Bloggers: Bill Bressette & Jeff Clayton, Baker Tilly Many contractors don’t fully understand the disclosures that form the basis for the negotiated prices on their GSA Schedule contracts, but a company’s failure to keep those disclosures current may expose it to audit risk [...]

Guest Blogger: Carolyn Alston, Executive Vice President and General Counsel I read with interest Steve Kempf’s, testimony before the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce.  Kempf, who is GSA’s Commissioner for the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) acknowledged that GSA needs greater agility, federal agencies need faster access to emerging solutions, and GSA needs to [...]

Last week the General Services Administration (GSA) announced its Demand Based Model for the Federal Supply Schedules (FSS) program.   Under the Demand Based Model GSA will close some schedules for new offers ending continuous open seasons for those schedules or for certain SINs within a schedule.  GSA’s goal is to balance the number of schedule [...]

In thinking about the Next Generation Schedules initiative, I am reminded of Redskins Coach George Allen’s famous quote “The future is now.”   The time for the Next Generation Schedules is NOW.  In responding to the budgetary challenges facing GSA’s customer agencies, the federal government will increasingly look to shared services models to leverage resources and save [...]