GSA Schedule

General Services Administration

A GSA Schedule contract, formally the Multiple Award Schedule, is a standing agreement that pre-negotiates your prices and terms so any federal buyer can order from you without running its own competition. Getting on takes a lengthy proposal covering pricing and past performance, and staying on requires reporting sales and paying a small fee on them. Once you hold one, it functions as a storefront: agencies find you through GSA's eBuy and order directly.

In a sentence

"Quotes are requested via eBuy from GSA Schedule holders under SIN 541611." Only businesses that already hold a contract in that Schedule category can even see the request, let alone answer it.

You’ll see it written as

Multiple Award Schedule

MAS

Federal Supply Schedule

Terms like this show up in every federal notice. We translate them in place, on every notice in your trade.