Oct 15, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
It is October, and for many of us, we started the month with a small sense of anticipation, if not excitement. Perhaps it is residue from our childhood, knowing that, in several short weeks, it will be Halloween, the threshold into November and our national holiday...
Oct 8, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
As we begin a new government fiscal year and close out the 2021 calendar year, the Coalition is busier than ever providing valuable content on Federal contracting for our members! Just this week, the Coalition hosted an all-member training on GSA’s e-Systems with Tim...
Oct 1, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
The Coalition for Government Procurement (Coalition) is pleased to announce that registration officially is open for our 2021 Fall Training Conference, What’s Next for the Business of Government? This two-day virtual conference will take place on November 17-18 and...
Sep 24, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
In June 2020, GSA launched an initial e-commerce portal proof-of-concept with the award of three contracts to e-marketplace platform providers for purchases below the micro-purchase threshold of $10,000. As GSA noted in announcing the proof-of-concept, the contract...
Sep 17, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
On April 27th, GSA announced that the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) Pilot was eligible for expansion in the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. As part of the announcement, GSA provided the latest performance results for the pilot. The FY20 results showed...
Sep 13, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
History provides us with many “where-were-you-when” moments. Some of them represent joyous events, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Other moments strike at our hearts and represent seminal points in our personal history...
Sep 3, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
On Monday, September 6, our nation will celebrate Labor Day, a federal holiday since the turn of the last century. Unofficially, Labor Day represents the end of summer (when we return our aloha shirts to storage), and a time for parades, barbeques, and gathering with...
Aug 27, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
This week’s blog highlights three notable, positive developments in the Federal market. First, with the protest period passing, GSA’s ASTRO procurement moves forward, with the GSA team on point to support Department of Defense customers through this ground-breaking,...
Aug 20, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
Thank you to everyone who braved the weather and dodged the rain drops on the golf course with us at Wednesday’s 8th Annual Joseph P. Caggiano Memorial Golf Tournament. Despite a few on-again, off-again showers during the first couple hours of play, the day concluded...
Aug 13, 2021 | FAR & Beyond
The Coalition looks forward to seeing you next week for the Annual Joseph P. Caggiano Memorial Golf Tournament on August 18. Next Wednesday will mark the eighth year (with one year off due to COVID) in which the Coalition and members have gathered to celebrate the...
