If your small business has ever been told it doesn’t have the past performance to compete for a traditional FAR contract, Other Transaction Agreements are worth understanding — they’re a completely separate acquisition authority DoD uses specifically to reach companies that don’t fit the traditional government contractor mold, with a fraction of the regulatory overhead….
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…
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…
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…
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…