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.

As a government contractor, there are many websites and resources to keep track of and monitor for compliance. If you are interested in becoming a GSA Schedule contractor, you are required to maintain an accurate and up to date account in the System for Award Management (SAM), or SAM.gov. This site not only allows you to search government contract opportunities and award notices but also houses a lot of core data relating to federal contractors’ businesses, including addresses, corporate representations and certifications, banking information, service classifications, and more.

Many contractors in the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program are focused on selling to federal government customers. There's a lot of business within those agencies, but it's important to know the full range of buyers in the MAS Program. Did you know you can also sell to state, local, educational, and tribal entities with your GSA Schedule under certain circumstances?

GSA’s rollout of its new catalog management system, the FAS Catalog Platform (FCP), is well underway, with more and more Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts being moved to the new platform. While FCP is more user-friendly than its predecessor, the Schedule Input Program (SIP), it still takes some getting used to.

There’s a lot of Executive Orders (EOs) to keep track of in the Trump Administration so far (162 to be exact), so we don’t expect you to know every single one. But if you’re a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contractor, or plan to be one soon, then you should be paying close attention to the EO Consolidating Procurement. This Executive Order, published in March 2025, aims to quadruple the size of GSA’s procurement responsibilities.

We are starting to see the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Cost Efficiency Initiative take shape in the federal government—the Department of Defense (DoD) recently released a memo that limits services contracts, especially IT, management, and advisory professional services. The memo, “Implementation of Executive Order 14222 – Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative” outlines four new policies that are aimed at reducing external support and relying on in-house expertise for these services. If you are a contractor within the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), this update could affect you—here’s what we know so far.