Within the last year and a half, GSA has beefed up opportunities for Joint Venture (JV) companies looking to acquire a GSA Multiple Award Schedule. In May 2023, GSA released Solicitation Refresh 16, which provided in depth MAS offer instructions applicable to Joint Venture companies that help entities be consistent and align with Small Business Administration (SBA) standards. These updates to the Solicitation also included clarifications for specific rules to Joint Venture GSA proposal submissions.

General Services Administration (GSA) recently released updated guidelines for Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Contractor Teaming Arrangements (CTAs) that clarifies administrative details, expectations on agreement documents, and GSA’s limits on oversight. In light of this, we’ll cover some of the most common points of confusion we see from prospective contractors, including what CTAs are and what they aren’t.

For small businesses looking to break into government contracting, teaming up with an experienced business through a Mentor-Protégé Program (MPP) can be a great strategy. In addition to the widely used MPP run by the Small Business Administration (SBA), contractors can participate in Mentor-Protégé Programs at specific federal agencies, such as the Department of Defense (DoD) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

So far in 2024, the federal government has spent over $13,479,101,845 billion dollars on contracts with roughly 12,000 small businesses vendors under the General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule.

There's a common misconception that only the bigger corporations or household contractor names win all the government business. If you are a small business owner, your chances for federal procurement are greater than you may think. The federal government requires agencies to set-aside contracts to achieve small business goals and give small businesses a fair chance to win government contracts. Some set-asides are further narrowed down to specific socio-economic programs, making it more accessible for disadvantaged small businesses. At Winvale, we work with a wide variety of small businesses and help them find their niche in the public sphere. In this blog, we will cover the different types of small business set-asides that your business may qualify for.

Major change could be coming to the public sector soon—the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a proposed rule recently that could greatly impact small businesses. The proposed rule would expand the “Rule of Two” to apply to orders under Multiple Award contracts. Comments on this proposed rule are due by December 24, 2024, so let’s talk about this rule, what it means, and how it can impact small business contractors.