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GSA Schedule

General Services Administration

A pre-negotiated, long-term contract that lets any federal buyer purchase from you at already-approved prices.

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.

Also called

  • Multiple Award Schedule
  • MAS
  • Federal Supply Schedule

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