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Did you know that your contact person identified on GSA Advantage! and eLibray can sometimes influence a potential customer’s first impression of your company?  We have recently experienced incidents whereby persons listed as the points of contact in GSA Advantange! and eLibary were no longer employed with the Schedule 70 vendor’s company and/or were unable to address potential customers questions regarding the vendor’s Schedule 70 offerings. 

Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) Senior Procurement Analyst Tommy Benton continues his Schedules vs. Open Markets video series from the 2012 GSA Expo. This video continues from last week's clip (3 of 11) topic of an overview of what FAR Subpart 8.4, FAR Part 13, and FAR Part 15 covers. Tommy dives down into SINs and Schedules authority. Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

Join us next Wednesday for the next clip of Schedules vs. Open Markets!

In the final GSA Training: Buy Green video, Dana Arnold of the Program Analysis Division offers information about shortcuts, search tools, and menu items that can be found on the GSA eLibrary site. Dana also shares a list of websites that can also help in buying green products.  Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

Stay tuned next week as we start up a new series!

Mahruba Uddowla, of the Multiple Award Schedules Office of GSA, continues her presentation on GSA Schedules and Small Business Utilization in video 3 of 7. In this video, Mahruba covers the basics of the Schedules Program which include the Socioeconomic Credit, MAS Contractors’ Catalogs/Pricelists, GSA Advantage, and eLibrary.  Click here to watch this video on YouTube.

Tune in next Wednesday as our interactive series on Small Business Utilization continues.

This training segment focuses on contractor team arrangements.  This is a relationship between Schedule contractors that works to achieve a total solution for customers and limits the necessity to reach into the open market.  Additionally, the video introduces one of GSA’s e-tools, GSA eLibrary.  This is a search engine and guide to GSA Schedules.  It is the official online source for complete GSA and VA Schedules (and GWACs). 

Schedule contractors’ catalogs and pricelists, available on GSA Advantage!® and GSA eLibrary, contain information on a broad array of supplies and services offered by small businesses. Ordering activities may use this information to meet or exceed established socioeconomic goals. The information should also be used as a tool to identify specific small business representations: small business, veteran-owned small business, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, HUBZone small business, woman-owned small business, and small disadvantaged business.

Contracts Online, the new GSA Schedules initiative designed to capture clause exception(s) from existing contract holders, achieves greater transparency and maximizes competition by providing customers with contractors’ Terms and Conditions within GSA Schedules.This electronic resource tool captures and regularly modifies contract terms and conditions to keep them updated across each Schedule, and displays information