President Trump signed an Executive Order entilled “Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement” (“EO”). Issued on March 20, 2025, the EO’s main purpose is to transfer the purchasing of “common goods and services” from across the Government to the General Services Administration (“GSA”). Yeah, well, good luck with this.
Read MoreGSA and DoD recently issued “Class Deviations” to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 14173 that repealed long-standing federal contract equal opportunity requirements. The deviations make significant changes to current and future solicitations and require the modification of existing contracts with more than six months remaining.
Read MoreGSA announced it will consolidate its 24 Multiple Award Schedules into a single contract vehicle. One. Really? Yes. One.
Read MoreThe scope of the commercial exemption to the Service Contract Act was narrowed considerably, but only recently has that change trickled down to most GSA scheduled contract work.
Read MoreAgencies generally can't buy unlisted, off-schedule "open market" items from a Federal Supply Schedule contractor on a noncompetitive basis. Here's how CMS got tripped up by this seemingly simple rule.
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