As the General Services Administration (GSA) experienced a realignment over the past couple of years, a strategy emerged to streamline their procurement processes. The GSA wants to reduce the overall administrative burden and lessen the need for contractors to submit multiple schedule applications and therefore manage fewer schedules.

GSA announced its plan to collapse eight service-related schedules into what ultimately will become the Professional Services Schedule (PSS). This “migration” affects potential and current GSA Schedule holders for the following schedule contracts:

• FABS (Financial and Business Solutions) Schedule 520
• AIMS (Advertising and Integrated Marketing Services) Schedule 541
• Language Services Schedule 738II
• PES (Professional Engineering Services) Schedule 871
• MOBIS (Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services) Schedule 874
• LOGWORLD (Logistics Worldwide) Schedule 874V
• Environmental Services Schedule 899
• 00CORP (Consolidated Services)
• In addition, SIN 595-21 on 738X (EOE Services and HR) and SIN 132-51 (on IT 70) will also be affected.

How does this impact your business?

• Vendors with a Consolidated Schedule and the above listed SINs will directly transition to the new PSS Contract.
• It doesn’t impact you if you have either 738X or IT70, meaning  only one  of these schedules, not both    .
• It affects you, for vendors with either IT 70 or 738X  and  one of the 8 affected schedules.
• It affects you, if you are about to apply for one of the affected schedules.

GSA’s roll out of their PSS solicitation is slated for March 2015, though this timeframe may be extended.  Companies that hold multiple affected GSA schedules should have received an email from the GSA in October 2014 with migration instructions. (Contracts will be migrated into 00CORP, then those on 00CORP will transition to PSS). These companies should also receive a mass modification notice around the summer of 2015. According to the GSA, “The mass modification will state that the Professional Services Schedule Solicitation now governs your GSA Schedule Contract.”

If your company is about to apply for one of the affected schedules, you can submit your new proposal under 00CORP until new PSS schedule is issued in March. For example, if your company is interested in a MOBIS professional services schedule, don’t use the MOBIS solicitation. Use OOCORP. Or wait.

The advice is different for those with  pending  schedules: If you have a pending application, find out if you have to pull your proposal and resubmit–because you may not have to. Reach out to the GSA and get a status check on your application.

In essence, each of the above migration scenarios has its own to do list to successfully complete the migration.

To learn more, please  contact  Arrowhead Solutions, LLC.