With the health IT industry booming, GSA is expected to release a new IT Schedule 70 Health IT SIN. This SIN will provide a variety of solutions to government buyers and contractors need to be ready to take advantage of this lucrative market.

The General Service Administration (GSA) has recently sought to improve the acquisition efficiency of their IT Schedule 70 by implementing new substitutive standards. IT Schedule 70 remains GSA’s most prolific procurement channel with billions of dollars in revenue transactions and thousands of satisfied industry partners.

Preparing a GSA Schedule proposal for submission is a tedious and sometimes frustrating process for applicants. In a previous blog post, we’ve given you our ten tips for writing a public sector proposal, but there are so many components when it comes to creating a successful RFP that we decided to delve deeper. Having a GSA schedule contract is helpful for contractors who want to sell to federal agencies, but getting one awarded to your organization isn’t always easy, or fast.

GSA’s IT Schedule 70 not only boasts the largest amount of awarded contracts with more than 4,700, and the largest amount of dollars procured at $14 billion, but it’s also one of the quickest schedule contracts to be awarded.

In the near future, a possible update to Human Resources and Equal Employment Opportunity Services, formally known as Schedule 738x, will be introducing significant changes to the Special Item Number (SIN) structure and will directly affect several schedule holders on this contract.

Most GSA Schedule contractors are familiar with the Schedule Input Program (SIP), how to download it to their computer from GSA’s Vender Support Center and how to post their awarded GSA pricelist and products or services on GSA Advantage. Knowing this basic information is great, but there is a lot more to SIP than what the average GSA contractor knows, including a plethora of helpful shortcuts that can be vital to its utilization.