Small Business “Rule of Two” Doesn’t Apply to GSA Schedule

| July 14, 2015 | 0 Comments

There has been an interesting development in the world of small business in relation to the Federal Supply Schedule. According to a LinkedIn article by Steven Koprince, Managing Partner of Koprince Law:

 

Agencies are not required to investigate the availability of small business offerors when ordering goods and services off the Federal Supply Schedule, even if multiple small business concerns would be able to compete for the contract.

As the GAO recently held in Walker Development & Trading Group, B-411357 (July 8, 2015), the small business preferences found in the Small Business Act do not apply when an agency uses the FSS

You can read the article in its entirety here.

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