Government Contracting Blog

The General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program provides contractors with access to countless government contracting opportunities. However, before you can take advantage of those opportunities, you will first need to navigate the detailed GSA Schedule proposal.

In February 2026, the GSA officially decommissioned the Electronic Subcontracting Reporting System (eSRS), and transferred all subcontracting reporting capabilities into the System for Award Management (SAM.gov). While this move had been in the works for a while, the transition to subcontracting reporting in SAM has not been without a few bumps in the road as contractors navigate a brand-new system with a very different interface. In this blog, we’ll go over how to submit a Subcontracting Plan Report in SAM.gov.

The Information Technology Vendor Management Office (ITVMO) in collaboration with the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) held the Second Annual ITVMO Summit in May 2026, to discuss the current and future state for federal IT acquisition approaches. Established in 2020, ITVMO supports agencies in driving efficiencies when purchasing IT products and services and ensuring a unified and streamlined governmentwide IT acquisition strategy.

If you offer products under the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program, especially Commercially Available Off-the-Shelf (COTS) items, you have probably seen the term “market threshold” before. You may have even experienced the dreaded scenario of being told that your proposed pricing exceeds the market threshold and cannot be accepted. However, you might not understand exactly what the “market threshold” is. That isn’t your fault, as how GSA calculates the market threshold has been fairly opaque. GSA uses an algorithm to calculate the market threshold, which serves as a marker of the upper limit on pricing that GSA is likely to accept for a specific item, at least without justification.

Out of all the requirements within the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program, the minimum sales requirement may seem the most daunting. Especially because the Trump Administration's mission to eliminate government waste and improve efficiency has made certain regulations including the minimum sales requirement more important for contractors to follow.

Updated on June 8, 2026 While this isn’t the Artificial Intelligence (AI) update contractors were holding their breath for, GSA is making significant significant changes in Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Refresh #32. The Refresh, which was released in early June, implements Executive Order 14398 on DEI policies and adds new requirements for ‘End-of-Support (EOS)’ solutions, among other changes. We’ll review the highlights of this Refresh below, so you know what to expect when the Mass Modification is released.