This week the Coalition provided Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy (DPAP) with “Myth-Busters” feedback regarding the policies, goals and objectives for Economy Act and non-Economy Act Interagency Acquisitions. Our feedback can be found here. As you know, DPAP is currently conducting a review of the rules and regulations governing interagency acquisition acquisitions across the Department. A
This week’s FAR and Beyond is Thought No. Twelve of the Thirteen Thoughts for 2013: ”The $500 billion question: an open or closed federal procurement system?” The answer to this question has profound, long term implications for customer agencies, contractors and the American people A closed system is one that restricts the number of suppliers to encourage lower
On Monday the Coalition provided the Federal Acquisition Service’s (FAS’s) Office of Acquisition Management with our white paper, “GSA Multiple Award Schedule Pricing: Recommendations to Embrace Regulatory and Commercial Market Changes.” The Coalition thanks all the members of the Pricing Working Group for their contributions to the white paper. It truly was a team effort. The Coalition also
The Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer and the beginning of fall and the school year. The Coalition hopes that everyone had a wonderful summer! This week also marks the beginning of a busy fall calendar for the Coalition. At the center is our Fall Conference scheduled for October 30th at the Fairview
On Wednesday the Coalition hosted the Joseph P. Caggiano Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit our wounded veterans. Again this year the tournament was held at Whiskey Creek Golf Course in Ijamsville, Maryland. Despite some intermittent rain through the early part of the round, it was a wonderful day! The Coalition was honored to have
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