Federal Government Policy and Business

3 takeaways from an anxious GSA roundtable with industry

Federal Times: The General Services Administration’s courtship of the private sector appears to remain very much in the anxiety stage, at least when it comes to its Transactional Data Reporting rule.

The agency sought to calm those apprehensions with a Feb. 7 roundtable outlining the benefits of the acquisition rule — which ditches the requirement that contractors disclose their commercial sales practices in favor of detailed monthly reports outlining all sales made under certain GSA contract vehicles.

The agency rolled out a pilot program to test the rule in August 2016, but despite GSA’s efforts to communicate TDR’s benefits for streamlining acquisition, industry stakeholders attending the roundtable signaled that they were just not that into the measure, yet.

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