Compliance Stuff

The Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) of the General Services Administration (GSA)  revealed on October 17, 2025 , that it will issue a Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47QSMD20R0001 “refresh” sometime in November 2025 . While GSA allowed the contracting community 10 business days to submit comments—until October 31, 2025 —as MAS contract holders know, GSA issues refreshes from time to time so that changes are made uniformly in recognition of shifts in policy, regulations, or statutes. Administering MAS contracts in this way allows GSA to curate terms in a consistent manner for contractual vehicles at all stages of performance, as contractors perform orders at different times. Refresh #30 The incoming November changes, “Refresh #30,” promise to be significant because they will make several modifications to the overall MAS Solicitation. In GSA’s  Summary of Changes , Refresh #30 will update numerous clauses and provisions to align the MAS Solicitation with deviations...

Today’s blog addresses two significant technology related changes at GSA.  First, GSA’s rollout of its  Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Catalog Program (FCP)  continues with minimal disruptions.  Second, reductions in IT staff are having an impact on GSA’s other, more established, tools. The FCP rollout is increasing in pace.  As a refresher, FCP is replacing GSA’s horribly outdated SIP program.   FCP is a web-based application, as opposed to the SIP desktop software.  It is more flexible, reliable, better integrated into other GSA tools ( e.g. , GSA Advantage and eMod), simpler, and provides access to GSA market research.  GSA is currently rolling FCP out to contractors with product catalogs and will move to service catalogs in FY2025.   We’ve received a lot of questions from clients regarding the onboarding emails, but very few questions once clients have begun the transition process.  In other words, the onboarding email is a little...