GSA Advantage suspensions and how your GSA contract is impacted

February 1, 2023 Leave a comment

Order status reporting, why its important, and what to do if your contract is suspended

By Gina Brown, Manager, Federal Contracts, immixGroup

If you have a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract, you are familiar with the requirement to have your approved GSA offering uploaded onto GSA Advantage — the online shopping and ordering system. Recently, GSA surveyed agency customers and found customers wanted greater visibility into order status (e.g., shipped, cancelled, backordered). With this awareness, GSA set a goal to improve the customer buying experience and released a mass modification that required all MAS contract holders to provide a status on all GSA Advantage orders received in the GSA Advantage Purchase Order Portal.

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New to federal sales? What you need to know about our GSA MAS contract extension

July 20, 2022 Leave a comment

By Gina Brown, Federal Contracts Manager

EC America was recently awarded a GSA contract extension for GS-35F-0511T. The award grants five additional years on this extremely valuable procurement contract, which now expires June 26, 2027.

The GSA MAS contract is one of the largest and most widely used government procurement vehicles, generating over $19 billion for the Information Technology “large” category every year. The contract is open to all federal agencies as well as to state and local government agencies.

What is GSA MAS?

The GSA MAS is an IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quality) government-wide, 20-year-long contract that provides government buyers access to commercial products, services and solutions at pre-negotiated pricing. Many state and local agencies look to GSA MAS as their vehicle of choice or as a base contract to govern their own vehicles. Federal agencies may also use the GSA MAS as a foundation to establish Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) for repetitive requirements for supplies or services.

Why is this important to our channel partners and suppliers?

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The Future of the GSA CDM SIN: What it means to you

August 17, 2021 Leave a comment

By Gina Brown, Federal Contracts Manager

In August 2018, the CDM program underwent a procurement transition that vendors should keep in mind. Combined with a proposed elimination of the GSA CDM special item number (SIN), the changes could streamline certain aspects of the way in which products are catalogued.

Initially, blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) were awarded to 17 primes. This then switched to a two-pronged acquisition strategy, in which four GSA Alliant prime contractors were awarded six Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defense (DEFEND) task orders.

These prime system integrators would purchase cybersecurity tools according to the DHS approved product list (APL), to strengthen the security posture of civilian agency customers.

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Huge Opportunity Opens Up for Small Business on CDM

July 26, 2018 1 Comment

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By Gina Brown, contracts specialist

The Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation (CDM) program has gone through a lot of changes since it was first launched in 2013. And, each step of the way seems to make the program easier for companies to participate.

The program’s latest change allows companies to include Small Business to be part of CDM and play a bigger role in the program. As the program moves into its next phases, this could be a huge opportunity for companies that have not historically been able to participate.

What’s changed?

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