The Montana Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) started distributing a quarterly newsletter in December 2018. This newsletter has tips on government contracting and updates from the Montana PTAC. If you’d like to receive this newsletter, you can subscribe here (Clients are not automatically subscribed). If you’d like to catch up on what you’ve missed in … Read more
GSA’s Integrated Award Environment (IAE) team held a stakeholder forum (“industry day”) yesterday to provide an update to interested parties on the latest happenings with the beta.SAM.gov project. I’ll touch on some of the highlights here: beta.SAM.gov is now the official source for wage determinations Last week (on June 14), GSA decommissioned WDOL.gov and made beta.SAM.gov … Read more
For two decades, you could go to one website, the FARSite (maintained by Hill Air Force Base), to search for certain clauses, words or phrases wherever they appeared in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the various FAR supplements. Then, at the beginning of last year, a notice appeared on the site that had acquisition officials in … Read more
The State of Montana recently added the following commodity codes to the Montana Acquisition & Contracting System (eMACS): 3956 – Professional Services – Concessionaire 5125 – Vehicles – Rental Car/Truck Services If either of these codes apply to your business and you wish to receive bidding opportunity notifications, you should log into your eMACS account … Read more
The federal government may be shut down, but state and local governments are still operating and continuing to buy all kinds of goods and services. Here in Montana, the State Procurement Bureau (SPB) just released its quarterly procurement forecast at http://vendorresources.mt.gov/ProcurementForecast. For general tips on how to use this forecast, please read our earlier post. Some … Read more
Four times a year, the State Procurement Bureau posts a forecast of anticipated purchases $5,000 and above for the current/upcoming quarter. The latest forecast, for October-December 2018, was just posted at http://vendorresources.mt.gov/ProcurementForecast. We encourage out clients to review these forecasts when they come out to see if the state is planning to procure any goods or services … Read more
On June 8 of this year, Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed Executive Order No. 15-2018, Requiring Disclosure of Dark Money Spending for Entities Doing Business with the State, which states “It is the policy of the executive branch that entities seeking to do business with the State of Montana must disclose contributions or expenditures they … Read more
A final rule was published in the Federal Register today, amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to update the instructions for registration in the System for Award Management (SAM) and clarify the timing of registration in SAM. The new rule, which is effective October 26, 2018, requires all offerors (except as provided at FAR 4.1102) to … Read more
PTAC Day is a national campaign designed to celebrate the contracting success of thousands of small businesses who have benefited from training and technical assistance delivered by their local PTACs. The first annual PTAC Day is today, Wednesday, September 26, 2018. National PTAC Day unites the ninety-five Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTACs) in all … Read more
Flathead County’s HUBZone designation status was scheduled to sunset on July 31st, 2018, but the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 that was signed by President Trump on December 12, 2017, extended Flathead County’s HUBZone designation until December 31st, 2021. This is excellent news for area contractors that are currently HUBZone certified as … Read more