What’s New in Government Procurement and Policy for 2026

By Lynn de Séve, GSA Schedules, Inc. on June 9, 2026 | , , , |

Get key insights from GovSummit on the significant changes and impact for security integrators.

Lynn de Séve
Lynn de Séve, founder and president of GSA Schedules, is the procurement policy chair of the SIA Government Relations Committee.

Here are some takeaways from a recent SIA GovSummit session that represent significant changes for security integrators. 

The General Services Administration (GSA) has been working to streamline requirements and procedures for procurement.  In the recent “Revolutionary FAR Overhaul,” changes are being implemented through various Refreshes to the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation 47 and moving Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) such as 8.404 to the General Services Acquisition Regulation for ordering procedures.

  1. All GSA contractors must accept the modification action that converts their MAS contracts to Transactional Data Reporting (TDR). In exchange for reporting sales monthly by transaction, Most Favored Customer as a basis of award of the contract no longer applies. There is no requirement to disclose commercial sales practices.
  2. The Economic Price Adjustment clause has been changed to remove the 10% cap and other procedures. A terms and conditions action has been required to incorporated this into all MAS contracts that were not TDR.
  3. A “Letter of Supply” is only required for IT and photographic products; however, suppliers are encouraged to list their products on GSA’s Verified Product Portal (VPP), including those partners authorized to resell them. Some form of authorization will need to be provided if items are not on the VPP.
  4. The addition of the Special Item Number “Order Level Materials” (OLM) scope has changed from requiring a limit of 33 1./3% of the Trade Agreements Act-compliant open market products or services needed to support the order to no noted percentage with guidelines listed in the GSA eLibrary.
  5. Although the FAR 51 deviation clause was eliminated previously, MAS contractors may purchase and include items from another MAS contractor on their order with acceptance from the other contractor. Both entities will report their sales.
  6. There are new GSA software tools to determine price reasonableness.

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