“So in case you missed some of the important work GSA has been doing over the last few months, here is a recap. This isn’t all-encompassing, but just highlights some of the significant memos, opportunities and items you may have missed…”
“Sonny Hashmi, the commissioner of the FAS, continues to make simplifying the buying and selling experience through the schedules and GWACs the organization oversees.
To that end, GSA said it will launch a new buyers’ experience effort based on human-centered design.
‘This development will reduce pain points that federal agency buyers, suppliers and GSA acquisition professionals have mentioned in feedback,’ GSA said in an April 13 release. ‘The updated buyer experience will offer buyers access to acquisition tools and market research solutions, as well as documents, templates and pricing resources to help plan acquisitions.’…”
“GSA decided not to use its authorities to remove price as an evaluation factor when awarding a contract, provided by under Section 876 of the 2019 Defense Authorization Act, for its schedules program.
After a series of listening sessions with industry and agency customers, GSA decided keeping pricing at the contract level, versus the task order level, preserves the MAS program’s current value.
‘Customer agencies expressed deep concerns about moving the pricing negotiation requirement from the contract level to the order level. Most agencies stated that this move would significantly reduce the value that MAS contracts give them,’ GSA wrote in a March 23 blog post. ‘Industry stakeholders were split. Some acknowledged it would save time. Others had concerns about their internal market research and increased procurement acquisition lead time (PALT) at the order level.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: GSA’s busy 2022 so far: Inflation, 876 and a new strategy – By Jason Miller, April 21, 2022. Federal News Network.
