Government Contracting Blog

One of the most essential parts of maintaining your GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract is ensuring your pricing is up to date. GSA contracts can last for up to 20 years, so it’s likely that your commercial rates will increase during the life of your contract.

In the ever‑evolving world of federal procurement, one constant remains at the heart of every solicitation, award, and contract action: the Procurement Instrument Identifier (PIID). Whether you’re responding to solicitations, managing active contracts, or navigating GSA Schedule requirements, understanding PIIDs is more essential than ever. Let’s walk through what PIIDs are, how they work, and why they continue to matter in 2026.

In early April, the Army released the long-awaited Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services (MAPS) solicitation. This solicitation has been in the works for years and has gone through several iterations before reaching its final form. Shortly before the solicitation was released, the Army published several changes to the draft solicitation, which are critical for prospective contractors to understand. In this blog, we’ll cover what the MAPS Solicitation is, what the recent changes were, and what’s happening with the solicitation now.

Information Technology (IT) modernization in the federal government has been on the rise for several years, and there's no slowing down in sight. It's safe to say that IT modernization remains a top priority, even across presidential administrations.

OASIS+ has been gaining traction ever since it first debuted in 2024. The federal contract vehicle is used by government agencies to procure non-IT professional services such as management and advisory, technical and engineering, and logistics. It’s designed to make it easier for agencies to access qualified contractors for complex professional services. Because it's used across many agencies, and is set to expand under Phase II, it’s quickly becoming a popular vehicle and great opportunity for contractors. Now that we have some data on OASIS+ through the Sales Schedule Query Plus (SSQ+) dashboard, we want to dive into which agencies are using the vehicle, what they’re procuring, and how much money is flowing through it.

The public sector isn’t necessarily known for being an easy market to access or navigate, especially if you’re a small business or lack experience in federal procurement. What many businesses miss, however, are the programs that can help them get their foot in the door and start selling to the government. They aren’t always well advertised, and may be buried among the acronyms and legal jargon companies sift through when they start their googling journey into government acquisition. One of these programs run by the Small Business Administration (SBA), called the 8(a) Business Development Program, exists specifically for economically disadvantaged small businesses.