Government Contracting Blog

When a contractor is submitting a GSA Schedule contract offer, there are several components to complete, one of which is the Price Proposal Template (PPT). This template is a crucial part of the pricing section, where the majority of your offer will be presented. The Services and Training Price Proposal Template outlines your entire schedule in a spreadsheet format. Contractors should be aware that there are different versions of the PPT, specifically the products version and the services version. This blog focuses on everything you need to know regarding the services PPT, which differs significantly from the products version.

With the new administration, we've been focused on following federal spending trends and priorities, but we can't forget about state and local government buyers. If you're a contractor through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program or are planning to be soon, you several avenues to sell to state and local entities. One of these is the 1122 Program.

Although we’ve seen some budget cuts and trimming of contracts over the past few months, we can expect to see some increased funding in certain areas with the new Reconciliation Bill. The Reconciliation Bill, also called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), was signed into law last week outlining a number of funding provisions, including substantial increases for technology and defense. Let’s review the specific areas the OBBA has targeted, and what contracting opportunities we anticipate coming out of this bill, especially for GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contractors.

The Information Technology Large Category within the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) accounts for the highest spending through MAS regularly, but it can also be one of the most difficult categories for vendors to determine where their offerings fall. Many of the Special Item Numbers (SINs) in this Large Category are interrelated, and sometimes the scope descriptions struggle to capture innovations in industry.

Keeping up to date with federal contracting news can be overwhelming for contract holders nowadays. Whether or not your company has personally been affected by cuts or contract terminations, there is an understandable sense of unease. While GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program is not going anywhere, GSA does plan to “rightsize” the MAS program, one of the largest impacts of which will be cancelling non-compliant Schedules, or allowing them to expire.

Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) is becoming an increasingly important acronym to remember in the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program. Now that GSA is ending the TDR pilot program and expanding it to several contractors, you may be subject to or required to opt into the program soon. With that information, you may be asking: what is TDR? Is my contract subject to TDR? What are the requirements for TDR? These are all valid questions, and we get them a lot when it comes to reporting GSA sales. Let's cover everything you need to know about Transactional Data Reporting.