Government Contracting Blog

Once your GSA Schedule has been awarded, it's tempting to take a break and take it all in–you’ve put in a lot of work to get here. However, GSA requires new Schedule contractors to complete a few administrative tasks in a timely manner following contract award. You’ll also have some ongoing contract maintenance responsibilities throughout the life of your contract.

A GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract can open the door to countless federal contracting opportunities, but obtaining one requires more than simply submitting an offer. Before investing time in the proposal process, it’s important to understand whether your company meets GSA’s eligibility, compliance, and proposal requirements.

The GSA Schedule acquisition process is difficult enough as it is—you don’t want to worry about whether you’re doing all this work just to get rejected by GSA. While the process involves a lot of documentation, preparation, and negotiation, it’s not an impossible feat to get your GSA Schedule awarded. However, rejection happens. It usually happens to companies with a lack of knowledge or preparation on the process. Some of our clients have come to us after trying to get a GSA Schedule on their own, or working with a scammy firm and they were rejected and had to start over. So, we put together 5 reasons your GSA Schedule offer could be rejected and how to avoid them.

With the release of GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation Refresh #31 earlier this year, Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) is now mandatory for all SINs under MAS. As of July 1, 2026, all MAS contracts are subject to TDR, and all contractors are required to begin reporting sales monthly.

Deciding that you’d like to acquire a GSA Multiple Award Schedule is a big step for you and your business. Perhaps you are now looking to prepare your Schedule proposal and want to gain more context about the process. Or, perhaps, you have already familiarized yourself with the first section of your Schedule proposal, the Administrative section. Once you have completed the Administrative section, you will have to complete the Technical section. In this blog, we will discuss what you need to know to successfully prepare the Technical section of your GSA MAS offer.

In April 2026, GSA released Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation Refresh #31, making the pilot Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) program mandatory for all new offerors and existing contractors. This update significantly changes how GSA MAS offerors prepare their price proposal, as the TDR program removes the requirement for offerors to submit pricing support to justify their commercial rates for their service and/or product offerings.