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The attached Guide to Considering Small Businesses When Using Schedules, an August 2009 Advisory by Catherine Poole and Paul Cataldo of Acquisition Solutions, Inc. is a particularly comprehensive and well-referenced (and not just because our former blog appears in three endnotes!) treatment of some of the Schedule order socioeconomic issues covered in this blog.

Yes. This is possible but only if the Ordering Officer has the Schedule contractor recertify its business size at the task order level.  This would most likely (but not exclusively) occur where the NAICS Code used by the GSA Schedule CO is different than the NAICS Code representing the preponderance of the work on a particular task order.

 

  On February 2, 2011 the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) issued a Memorandum with the following stated objectives: 1) identify common misconceptions about vendor engagement that may be unnecessarily hindering agencies’ appropriate use of the existing flexibilities, and provide facts and strategies to help acquisition professionals benefit from industry’s knowledge and insight;