Ask five different GovCon consultants which contract vehicle a small business should pursue first, and you’ll get five different answers — mostly because “it depends” is the honest response, and each of these four vehicle types genuinely serves a different purpose. Here’s a straight comparison of GSA Schedules, GWACs, IDIQs, and BPAs, and a framework…
GWAC gets thrown around in federal IT circles as if everyone already knows what it means, and the term genuinely does describe something distinct from a GSA Schedule or a regular agency contract. Understanding the difference matters, because it changes both how much competition you’re up against and how much effort it takes to actually…
If your firm holds a seat on CIO-SP3, CIO-SP3 Small Business, or CIO-CS, the clock is running on all three. NITAAC’s GWAC portfolio is winding down on a hard schedule, and the practical decisions — what work needs to close out, where new business goes instead, how to preserve your records — need to happen…
Plenty of SDVOSB owners know their certification opens the door to set-aside contracts. Far fewer know there’s a specific GSA contract vehicle built exclusively for firms in that category — a $6.1 billion IT GWAC where every single competitor is, by definition, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business. That’s VETS 2, and it’s one of the…
The SBA has proposed the biggest rewrite of small business size standards in decades — and if it goes through as written, an estimated 114,541 additional firms would qualify as “small,” including 37,002 companies that already hold federal contracts. If you’ve built your business around a specific NAICS code and a specific receipts threshold, this…
Two of the federal government’s biggest IT contract vehicles are quietly changing hands. GSA is absorbing NASA’s SEWP and NIH’s CIO-SP GWACs into its own portfolio, and while nothing has operationally
By the time an RFP hits SAM.gov, the outcome is usually already 80% decided — the government has a strong sense of who it wants to win before it ever releases the solicitation. A capture plan is
Win a small business set-aside contract and the work isn’t done — you now have to prove, over the life of the contract, that you’re not just a pass-through for a larger subcontractor doing the a
GSA’s Refresh 31 mass modification is the biggest change to how Multiple Award Schedule contractors report sales in nearly a decade, and if you haven’t accepted it yet, the clock on your acceptance wi
If your firm holds a spot on a small-business multiple-award contract, SBA’s recertification rule under 13 CFR § 125.12 is not a background compliance detail anymore — it is now fully in ef