GSA Schedules

GSA Schedules Newsletter Series

• Why a GSA Schedule is Essential to Your Growth
  

  Do you ever wonder why your competitors are winning business, and you keep missing out?Chances are they are on a GSA schedule. Federal agencies cannot continue to publish single bid opportunities due to lack of contracting staff. Small service... read more

• GSA: How GSA Schedules are Used to Award Product Contracts
  

  GSA Schedules: "The Way" to Grow in the Federal Market Over $30 billion dollars of federal contracts are awarded annually through small business friendly GSA schedules. GSA schedules are a favored mechanism for federal buyers to contract awards... read more

• GSA: Small Service Businesses Need a MAC to Grow
  

  GSA Schedules: "The Way" to Grow in the Federal Market Over $30 billion dollars of federal contracts are awarded annually through small business friendly GSA schedules. GSA schedules are a favored mechanism for federal buyers to contract awards to... read more

• GSA: How to Sell with a GSA Schedule
  

  GSA Schedules: "The Way" to Grow in the Federal Market Over $30 billion dollars of federal contracts are awarded annually through small business friendly GSA schedules. GSA schedules are a favored mechanism for federal buyers to contract awards to... read more

• GSA: GSA Schedule Companies Can Bid Quickly with Limited Competition
  

  GSA Schedules: "The Way" to Grow in the Federal Market Over $30 billion dollars of federal contracts are awarded annually through small business friendly GSA schedules. GSA schedules are a favored mechanism for federal buyers to contract awards to... read more

• GSA: Buyers Use GSA Schedules to Make Quick and Easy Buys
  

  GSA Schedules: "The Way" to Grow in the Federal Market Over $30 billion dollars of federal contracts are awarded annually through small business friendly GSA schedules. GSA schedules are a favored mechanism for federal buyers to contract awards to... read more

• Finally a Single Service GSA Schedule
  

  Fedmarket's GSA Specialist can assist you in obtaining or migrating to GSA's single professional service schedule; 00Corp. GSA has finally consolidated service schedules into a single schedule allowing companies with a wide range of services to obtain a... read more

• GSA Schedules: Fast Way for Contracting Officers to Reprocure
  

  Contracting offices are short of staff and re-procurements (continuation of a contract without interruption of services) are staff intensive with long lead times. Increasingly, contracting officers turn to existing Multiple Award Contracts (MACS) rather... read more

• GSA Schedule Contracts Open Doors for Small Businesses
  

  Don't shut yourself off to MACs, begin by obtaining your GSA schedule contract. The federal government is using Multiple Award Contracts (MACs) more and more as the purchasing method of choice. All MACs publicly posted by federal agencies open and... read more

• How GSA Orders Are Placed
  

  GSA Schedules are also unique in that purchases are transacted directly between the federal agency requiring a product or service and the contractor. Any federal agency, anywhere in the world, can place an order using the prices, ordering procedures, and... read more

• Fitting GSA Schedules to Companies
  

  "Which GSA Schedule fits my company?" That's usually the first question vendors ask, and it's the million-dollar question. The products and services covered by each of the 53 or so Schedules are listed at GSA.gov. Follow the "GSA Schedules" links and... read more

• Do Not Write Off GSA Schedules
  

  If you have been following the press on GSA schedules lately you may be having second thoughts about obtaining a GSA schedule for your company. I can't say I blame you, on the surface the news does look grim, but if you dig a little deeper you'll find... read more

• Public Postings of GSA Schedule Purchases
  

  A new federal regulation requires that notices of GSA Schedule purchases be posted publicly at FedBizOpps. This will allow all to see what's be transacted through GSA Schedules.  It will give companies not holding Schedule contracts the chance to... read more

• GSA Schedule Characteristics
  

  A GSA Schedule is an IDIQ that is ALWAYS open for bid.  GSA schedules are the grandfather of all IDIQs. All schedule contracts share the following four characteristics: They are open to small businesses. A services company can be virtually... read more

• GSA: The Home of the Oldest IDIQ
  

  About $40 billion, or 7 plus percent, of last year's $535 billion in total federal procurement spending was awarded through GSA schedules. The General Services Administration is the central administrative agency of the federal government. GSA is the... read more

• More Small Business Opportunities Under GSA Schedule Contracts
  

  Effective November 2, 2011, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) was amended to allow federal buyers who want to purchase through GSA Schedule contracts to set aside opportunities for small businesses. This new interim rule may... read more

• GSA Schedule Price Increases
  

  When asked about GSA schedule price increase, many of Fedmarket's customers say: "You mean we can increases our prices before the five year contract period is up?" And some customers who know that price increases are allowed under the contract do not... read more

• Are Your GSA Schedule Prices Up to Date?
  

  GSA Schedule prices can be increased according to the terms of a schedule contract. Seems simple but many GSA contractors do not increase their prices during the entire five years of their contract. Obviously, not requesting price increase can hurt... read more

• GSA Contract Compliance; Do it Right from the Start
  

  The most important aspects of contract compliance are: Compliance with restrictions on discounting practices (the biggest risk factor financially) Paying the GSA Industrial Funding Fee (IFF) on time Making best efforts to subcontract according to... read more

• PRC Compliance; the Most Misunderstood GSA Schedule Requirement
  

  Non-compliance with the Price Reduction Clause (PRC) clause (violating disclosed discounting practices) can result is return of money to GSA and the dollar amount can pile up if the non-compliance is caught late in the contract period. PRC problems have... read more

• Grab the Federal Contracting Apple: 10 Secrets to Win with GSA Schedules
  

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• The Sensitivity of GSA Schedule Contract Modifications
  

  GSA Schedule contract modification requests are comprised of a series of specific documents required by GSA to change a GSA Schedule contract, e.g., product or service updates, price changes, and name change. The content and format of modification... read more

• GSA Schedule Changes May Significantly Increase Small Business Contracting
  

  The federal government has not met its stated goal to send 23% of all federal contracting dollars to small businesses. The shortfall represents around $5 - $6 billion annually. Recently-enacted legislation requires the Small Business... read more

• Negotiating Your GSA Schedule Prices
  

  The General Services Administration Acquisition Manual (GSAM) that governs the evaluation of a GSA Schedule proposal contains the rules that govern the evaluation of a GSA Schedule proposal. See: 538.270 Evaluation of multiple award schedule... read more

• Feeling Restricted by the Number of Labor Categories that GSA will Award?
  

  Small companies are often handcuffed by GSA's requirement that a labor category cannot be offered to GSA until such time as it has been sold and you have an invoice to document the sale. And how does a small business acquire the required sales history if... read more

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