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Did you recently win a GSA MAS Contract for your company? If so, we did your homework for you! Get your pen and paper ready and we’ll breakdown the first steps to being a successful contractor in the marketplace. Episode Notes: For more episodes: www.elevategsa.com/podcast Helpful Links: Registering at Vendor Support Center: https://vsc.gsa.gov/register/ Download SIP: https://vsc.gsa.gov/sipuser/sip_download.cfm FAS ID Registration: https://eoffer.gsa.gov/eOffer/register.do?metho...
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Welcome to GSA 101 brought to you by Elevate GSA: where we turn GOVSPEAK into a language YOU speak. My name is Hannah Struss and I have Collin Hartsell here with me and we are going to be discussing how to get your contract up and running post award.
· First things first: SAVE YOUR FINAL FILES FROM THE PROCESS. All of it. Every single one. Save em. GSA can request these at literally any time, and if you do not provide them you can be considered in breech of your contract’s terms and conditions.
· Register your contract with the Vendor Support Center . DUNs # and Contract #, along with contract admin info will be needed. You can do this 24 hours after you are awarded
· Download the SIP software and learn it as fast as possible.
· Upload your contract’s terms and conditions inside SIP. This will post your information to elibrary.
· Register with the FAS ID inside eOffer.
· Log into Ebuy and familiarize yourself. RFQ’s and RFP’s will be posted here that are relevant to your SINs. Add more people as points of contact to get emails regarding these opportunities. Only the contract Admin will initially have access.
· Familiarize yourself with the FAS Sales reporting system. This is where you will pay that .75% Industrial Funding Fee back to GSA, 30 days after the close of each quarter. IF you are in TDR you may pay this fee monthly, along with your reporting if you so choose.
· Start networking! Talk to your current clients, try and sync up with other small businesses (or large) in your industry who are doing work through GSA and see if you can subk or team up on an opportunity in the future.
· GSA gives you two years to hit 25k in sales, and then you must hit that number annually to maintain your contract.
· Stick the GSA logo on your website, on your email signature, throw up a post on linked in that you are now a GSA schedule contract holder. Get the word OUT.
· Be aware that GSA will also expect you to accept mass mods - these are unilateral changes GSA makes periodically to all vendors contracts. You must sign into their portal and accept the changes they present. You can take exception- but you will have to provide reasoning and it does complicate things a bit. Honestly never had a client do that.
· Be aware of contractor assessments and audits- GSA wants you to keep your contract squeaky clean and provide insight as to how you are doing that. Along with documentation to support it.
· Learn where to access your contracts public facing information. GSA elibrary is a site you will want to familiarize yourself with. Searching your company name will pull up all the information a purchasing officer is going to review. So, make sure that T and C doc is up to date and, most importantly, there.
· Make sure you have a firm grasp on your EPA Mechanism and how that affects your commercial pricing.
· Learn about the formal modification process through eMod . If you need to make a change to your contract, such as add or delete products or services, or change your scope, etc. this is how you will do it. GSA releases new instructions and templates periodically.
· Understand that every 5 years your contract will be reviewed before it is granted another 5-year period. It does not happen automatically.
· You will also need to keep your SAM.gov profile updated annually. Takes about 15 minutes.
· Hire someone at your company to learn all this OR hire. Us. =)
Collin:
As always, if you have any questions, or requests for a future episode, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] .
Thanks for listening!
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