Government Contracting Blog

Public sales data can help businesses build stronger General Services Administration (GSA) proposals by validating pricing, identifying competitors, and evaluating demand in the federal marketplace. GSA helps small businesses and large companies win federal contracts through its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program, which makes commercial goods and services available to the federal government at reasonable prices.

General Services Administration’s (GSA’s) One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus Phase II, or OASIS+, has been out for over half a year now and activities are ramping up.

While attaining a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract, verbiage can become confusing, especially if this is your first time navigating the acquisition process. As you’ve begun working toward contract acquisition, you may have stumbled across the terms “best value” and “fair and reasonable price.” Though they sound similar, the implications of their definitions are quite different. In this blog, we will go over the true meaning of these concepts and how they play a role in the acquisition of a GSA MAS.

If you're a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contractor who’s regularly using the FAS Catalog Platform (FCP) to process product files for contract modifications, you've likely encountered compliance or pricing flags during the submission process. While these system validations help ensure your catalog meets GSA requirements, resolving each flagged item can become time-consuming. Fortunately, the FCP includes a feature designed to streamline that process.

Under the Trump Administration, GSA’s plans to “rightsize” the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program are continuing apace, one of the largest impacts of which has been GSA cancelling non-compliant Schedules or allowing them to expire.

There is a lot of research and paperwork involved with preparing an offer for the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program. A company’s MAS offer consists of an Administrative, Technical, and Pricing section. Our recent blog series broke down the requirements for each section of the proposal, but a frequent question we receive from our clients when developing the pricing section is how does GSA negotiate pricing?