GSA to keep MAS pricing

      After testing a new form of competition at the task-order level for a year, the General Services Administration announced it has decided to keep price competition for Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Services Contracts as it is--at the contract level.

      A GSA team evaluating task order-level pricing “found limited benefits to GSA, and customer agencies had significant concerns. Therefore, the team recommended keeping pricing at the contract level for MAS contracts,” GSA in a statement on GSA Interact.

      Under Section 876 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2017, the GSA was granted discretion to award certain MAS and IDIQ contracts with no pricing. Instead, pricing evaluations would take place on each task order. Agencies must make “fair and reasonable pricing determinations” at that time.

      However, GSA’s customer agencies said the change would significantly reduce the value of utilizing MAS contracts. Also, while some schedules holders believed task order pricing would save time, others said lead time would increase, GSA said.

      GSA concluded that the changes would not be beneficial.

More information:
GSA statement:https://interact.gsa.gov/node/468012

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