Congratulations! Your company has been awarded a GSA or VA Federal Supply Schedule contract. All of your hard work has paid off and you are about to take a major step toward connecting your business with government customers.
Marketing Your Contract
The first step you will want to take is to maximize your contract’s potential. GSA requires that your company accrue at least $25,000 in schedule sales during your first 24 months, and maintain an additional $25,000 in sales each year thereafter. In order to ensure that federal customers can reach you it is important to be registered with the appropriate sites for marketing your contract and bidding on opportunities.
SharpMinds specialists will assist you with this process to include:
- Vendor Support Center registration
- Creating, distributing and maintaining your pricelist in GSA Advantage!
- eBuy and eOffer Registration
- FedBizOpps Registration
- “Forecast of Opportunities” Registration
- GSA Star Mark Logo application
- GSA and VA Schedule Newsletters
Maintaining Your Contract
The second step to maintaining your contract successfully is to be in compliance with all administrative action items. During the life of your contract, it will be necessary to request modifications to terms and conditions which may include changes in prices, discounting policies or history, products/services, or corporate information.
Over 90% of our clients, even those with large contracting departments have chosen SharpMinds to handle the maintenance of their schedule contract and with good reason. Submitting modifications, option renewals and maintaining the appropriate disclosures is a very refined process and in many ways unique to each individual type of schedule contract and type of change. We have over twenty years of specialized experience with post-award contract administration with the GSA and VA Schedule programs. We blend our client’s objectives with the know-how of what the contracting officer’s are seeking in order to mitigate risk and ensure that any changes become effective accurately and quickly.
SharpMinds specialists will assist you with this process to include:
- 72A Quarterly Reporting Support
- Add, Delete, Economic Price Adjustment Modifications
- Company Change of Name and Novations
- GSA Advantage! and Pricelist Updates
- Commercial Sales Practices Analysis and Disclosures
- Price Reduction or Promotional Notifications
- Exercise of Options
- Contractor Team Arrangements (CTA’s)
- Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s)