Spotlight on GSA Schedules:

IG criticizes pricing and vendor non-compliance;
Schedules sales trending down since fiscal 2011

      The Office of Inspector General of the General Services Administration is calling attention to two “major issues” identified in the Multiple-Award Schedules program, based on its most recent set of preaward audits.

      Schedules contracts “may not provide the lowest overall cost alternative,” according to the OIG.

      In addition, schedules contractors “are not in compliance with their schedule contract terms,” the OIG reported.

      R. Nicholas Goco, GSA’s assistant inspector general for auditing, outlined the concerns in a Sept. 19 memo to Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Tom Sharpe. Goco wrote that “additional management attention is needed.”

      However, Venable LLP attorneys have suggested that several of the OIG’s findings are based on “faulty premises.” ...more....