Government Contracting Blog

As a GSA MAS contractor, companies are given access to a variety of tools and platforms for advertising and selling to government buyers. Arguably, the most important of these is GSA Advantage!®. Much in the way that you and I would purchase items from Amazon or shop online during Cyber Monday, contracting officers and procurement managers for government agencies access GSA Advantage to browse the full catalog of contractors and their offerings – products and services alike. Even if you’ve already established consistent relationships with existing buyers, your public sector footprint could grow even larger with the aid of GSA Advantage!®. Although managing Advantage! on the back-end can be a handful, the results you’ll see on the customer-facing side can be significant. Below are tips for how to sell on GSA Advantage!®.

You’re considering government contracting and it seems like the deeper you dive into the subject the longer the list of acronyms and abbreviations you come across becomes. No worries! Below is a guide to the government contracting vehicles that you will come across in your research.

Introduction There are many ways for your business to sell to the federal government, one of which includes holding your own GSA Schedule contract. A common alternative to holding your own GSA Schedule contract is to sell your products to the government through a reseller. Many companies choose this approach for a myriad of reasons including: when a company does not have the internal resources to support a GSA Schedule contract, or if a company does not qualify directly for a GSA Schedule contract. Regardless of the reason, many small businesses build a successful federal sales practice through partnerships with companies that act as resellers to the government.

If you have a GSA contract or have worked with the General Services Administration in any capacity, you have undoubtedly heard the terms “NAICS code” referenced before. But what exactly is a NAICS Code? And what is their relevance to the GSA and Multiple Award Schedule? NAICS is an acronym for North American Industry Classification System that was established in 1997 to create more connectivity with statistical agencies of Mexico and Canada.

So often in government contracting, words that are thought to be fully understood might have a little more packed into them than we think. This post is all about compliance. In order to understand this idea, we will look at what it means to be GSA compliant, how to know if you are compliant, and the consequences for not being compliant.

GSA, MAS, IFF, CSP, MFC – sometimes it seems like it takes learning another language to understand GSA compliance. Winvale is here to help by explaining each of these acronyms throughout the course of our weekly blogs. This week, we’re coming to you with information on one of the most important acronyms for GSA MAS compliance, the CAV, or Contractor Assessment Visit.