Government Contracting Blog

If you were recently awarded a GSA Schedule contract, you have likely been inundated with all the tasks required to manage your awarded contract. One key compliance requirement is completing your Baseline modification in GSA’s FAS Catalog Platform (FCP). GSA only recently made the change from the legacy SIP software to FCP for catalog management, so even contractors experienced with GSA may be unfamiliar with FCP. In this blog, we’ll go over the steps to complete an FCP Baseline modification.

If you’re a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) holder who has reached your third and final option period, you may be wondering when it’s time to start thinking about applying for a new contract. The answer is likely sooner than you think. In order to avoid a lapse between the end of your old contract and the start of your new contract, it’s critical not to wait until the last minute. In this blog, we’ll discuss when the best time is to start your streamlined offer, by working backwards from award to submission to start date.

As the federal government’s primary procurement vehicle, the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) has an extremely wide variety of products and services available for purchase. Government agencies can purchase everything from binders to bounce houses, and contract almost any service. One service that some contractors may not realize can be offered on the GSA is air charter services. Both owner operated and broker air charter companies can offer their charter services to government customers through the GSA MAS. In this blog, we’ll review the special requirements for air charter services on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

As many contractors with GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) experience know, GSA is constantly working to streamline the offer process and make things easier for both offerors and contracting officers. One area that has recently seen quite a few updates is the FAS Catalog Platform (FCP). GSA has been slowly rolling out updates to FCP since 2023, and recent months have seen major updates to the platform and transition timeline. Several of these updates are critical for contract compliance, so in this blog we’ll review the most important updates that contractors need to be familiar with.

Any new presidential administration brings changes to the world of federal contracting, and the Trump Administration is no exception. It has been clear from the outset that one of the major priorities of this administration is eliminating government waste, leading to a slew of contracting-related Executive Orders and policy memoranda. With so many changes occurring, it can be hard to keep up. As important as it is to pay attention to new regulations and policies, it is also important to take note of regulations and policies that haven’t changed in the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program and are still applicable to contractors.

In a recent blog, we discussed the many changes introduced by the Trump Administration and what their effect was on current GSA Schedule contractors. If you don’t have a GSA Schedule yet, but are looking to get one, you may be wondering how these changes have impacted the process of acquiring a GSA Schedule contract. That’s why in this blog, we’ll discuss the impact that the new administration’s policies have on potential GSA Schedule contractors.