I know, I'm as shocked as the rest of you. But according to the General Services Administration, the planned consolidation of the 24 Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) into a single, unified schedule is going to happen, and it's going to happen soon (at least by Federal contracting standards). Yesterday, GSA released issued an advance notice [...]
A new proposed rule would resolve discrepancies between the SBA Regulations found in 13 CFR 125.6 and the current implementing Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) clause, FAR 52.219-14. When the proposed rule goes into effect, it will align the FAR clause with the SBA regulations in several areas, including the method of calculating LOS compliance, the "similarly [...]
On November 27, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced a plan to consolidate the 24 Multiple Award Schedules (MAS), aka Federal Supply Schedules aka GSA Schedules, available to Federal contractors into a single, unified schedule. This consolidation should (in theory) make life easier for Federal purchases, reduce the administrative burden on contractors who hold multiple MAS, [...]
