Last week’s blog focused on the Federal Acquisition Service’s (FAS’s) notice seeking UPC codes and Manufacturer Part Numbers (MPNs) from all Multiple Award Schedule contractors. This initiative raises several questions:
Yesterday GSA issued a notice to its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contractors entitled “Improving Product Number Data Quality on GSA Schedules.” The notice states the GSA is seeking “to
Last week GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Office of Schedule Programs issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking feedback on “GSA Proposed Change to Add a Cloud Computing Special Item
Utilization of small business concerns is a top priority of the current administration. A plethora of new laws, policies, and changing strategies impact this important aspect of federal contracting. The
This week the FAR & Beyond blog is dedicated to the Fourth of July. The blog highlights a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. We hope
This week’s blog continues the discussion on Schedules Modernization. I was interviewed this week by Federal News Radio’s Francis Rose regarding schedules modernization; to listen click here. At the beginning of
On June 12th Tom Sharpe, Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), posted a new blog entitled “Modernizing GSA’s Schedules Program for Today’s Marketplace.” As you may recall, earlier this year GSA published
In April 2014, the National Dialogue was launched by the Chief Acquisition Officer (CAO) Council in conjunction with the FAR Council, the Chief Information Officers Council, the General Services
At least 10 firms filed Government Accountability Office (GAO) bid protests this week against the six month extension of the strategic sourcing Office Supply (OS2) Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs). GSA
For this week’s comment I wanted to share with you my latest blog post that was first published on the Federal Times’ Acquisition Blog (www.federaltimes.com) on May 16, 2014. The Multiple Award Double-Standard,