Join us for this Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) training online and receive a training certificate with credit towards your warrant requirements. The target audience for this training is contracting professionals and vendors at all levels who seek to gain understanding or strengthen their knowledge of Blanket Purchase Agreements and/or Contracting Team Arrangements and how they play a huge role in the GSA Schedules program.

Blanket Purchase Agreements: 10:30am - 12:00pm EST
Contractor Team Arrangements: 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
1 Continuous Learning Point (each)

An interim rule was published in the Federal Register on March 16, 2011 increasing competition requirement for Multiple Award Contracts, and implemented Section 863 of the Fiscal Year 2009 Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The interim rule enhances competition requirements for orders placed against Multiple Award Contracts, including:

The GSA Training: Contractor Team Arrangements series continues with video 8 of 9. In this video of the webinar, Mark Lee the Policy Chief for the MAS Program office continues with the question and answer session. In this video, Mark provides answers to questions about price offerings, award schedules, awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) and who is eligible for using the CTAs. Stay tuned for next Wednesday as we finish up the CTA series with Video 9 of 9.

To watch this video on YouTube, click here.

Agencies are encouraged to seek discounts when ordering through GSA Schedules and GSA Schedule Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs). The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) urges agencies to seek discounts in its memo, Achieving Better Value from Our Acquisitions.

Join us for our free December webinar starting at 1pm Eastern on Thursday, December 12.  This two part webinar will focus on two important GSA Schedule features:  Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) and Contractor Team Arrangements (CTAs).  Mahruba Uddowla will present the first webinar on BPAs at 1pm, followed by a presentation by Denise Alley on CTAs at 2:30pm.

Register now to learn about the flexibility of GSA's acquisition tools:
·  Blanket Purchase Agreements
·  Contractor Team Arrangements

When: Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Time: 1:00pm-3:30pm EDT
Hosted by:  FAS Office of Acquisition Management, MAS Program Division

In response to concerns about overlap and duplication of contracts for frequently purchased goods and services, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) has issued guidance that requires agencies to su