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GSA’s Big Changes in 2020, Part 3: With GSA’s Schedule Consolidation, What Is Changing and What Is Not

This is the third in a series of posts regarding the General Services Administration’s (“GSA”) consolidation of its federal supply schedules into one schedule contract. Our prior posts addressed GSA’s consolidation process in general and its use of Category Management in constructing the consolidated schedule. Here, we answer common industry questions regarding what is and is not changing as a result of schedule consolidation.

• Transactional Data Reporting (“TDR”): Schedule consolidation will not affect the TDR pilot. For contractors participating in the TDR pilot, TDR will continue to apply. If you hold a TDR Special Item Number (“SIN”), it will continue to apply to your entire schedule contract.
• Cooperative Purchasing: Cooperative Purchasing will continue to apply, but only to the applicable SIN in your schedule contract. Unlike TDR, it will not extend to your entire contract.
• Order Level Materials (“OLM”): The OLM SIN has not been added to every schedule. Under consolidation, OLM SINs will be expanded to all schedule contractors.

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