It’s Finally Here: GSA’s New Consolidated Schedule

Tuesday’s solicitation will begin the process of turning 24 award schedules into a single contracting vehicle for products and services.
Tuesday’s solicitation will begin the process of turning 24 award schedules into a single contracting vehicle for products and services.
Agencies spent $559 billion on prime and unclassified contracts.
It took a transparency advocate using a Freedom of Information Act request, but the Defense Department last week released a congressionally mandated report on the extent of criminal contractor fraud, naming nine firms that were suspended or debarred.
Source: Newly Unveiled Pentagon Fraud Report Names 9 Debarred Contractors – Defense – GovExec.com
The Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 22 put out a message to staff saying it had sufficient funding to stay open during the partial government shutdown until the close of business, Jan. 2.
Source: Stop-Work Orders Beginning to Go Out to Contractors – Contracting – GovExec.com
As many as 380 high-ranking Defense Department officials and officers over the past decade left government to become lobbyists, corporate board members and defense contractor consultants, according to a transparency group’s tabulations.
Source: Latest Count of ‘Revolving Door’ Defense Contractors Names Names – Contracting – GovExec.com
A company that rents tents and other outdoor structures for events agreed to pay the government $7.8 million to settle charges that it wrongly won Defense Department set-aside contracts reserved for small businesses.
Source: Defense Contractor That Posed As Small Business Forfeits $7.8 Million – Contracting – GovExec.com
Faced with opposition from industry and the chairmen of the Armed Services Committee, the Defense Department on Monday rescinded a plan announced in August to pay contractors less money during the early phases of a contract.
Source: Pentagon Backs Off Controversial Changes to Contractor Pay Schedule – Defense – GovExec.com
Congress’s progress on its 12 annual spending bills for fiscal 2019 means “we’re in pretty good shape ” for funding federal agencies, David Berteau, president and CEO of the 400-member Professional Services Council, told his contractor members in a webinar on Wednesday.
Source: Shutdown Advice for Contractors: If a Stop-Work Order Comes, Stop Work – Contracting – GovExec.com
At least nine major contractors, working primarily for defense-related agencies, have benefited from waivers under a 1981 law that allows federal officials to override the firms’ suspensions for such misconduct as fraud, bribery and theft.
Contractors hoping to protect their right to file bid protests got much of what they wanted in the conference report for the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which also contained several provisions to streamline the Pentagon’s acquisitions.
Source: Acquisition Reforms Survive in Defense Authorization Bill – Contracting – GovExec.com