In a step it hopes will help ease agency acquisition of everything from IT systems to pencils, the General Services Administration (GSA) is adding a feature to its schedule programs called Order Level Materials, which was the subject of a recent rulemaking process.
The move will let agencies get products and services along with the associated items they need to make use of them at the order level, Mark Lee, assistant commissioner in the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service’s Office of Policy and Compliance, wrote a July 3 blog post.
Before the new rule, GSA said, agencies might have had to go through several contracting actions to get secondary services a total system solution or product might need before it could actually be implemented or put into use.
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