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A report has recommended against carrying out the GSA Federal Acquisition Service’s intent to expand its “transactional data reporting” rule to the entire multiple award schedules program, saying that “ongoing data quality and access issues could place government agencies at risk of overpaying for products and services when ordering from FAS’s MAS contracts.”
Under that rule, contractors are required to report transactional data, including prices paid by government customers, for products and services sold under their respective MAS contracts. In return, contractors are no longer required to provide commercial pricing information or track designated basis of award customers for price reduction purposes.
The IG noted that in a report it issued last year on the pilot program to carry out the rule, it “found that TDR data was inaccurate and unreliable and that FAS contracting personnel are not using the data to negotiate or make pricing decisions.”
It said for example that FAS does not consistently verify the product and pricing information entered by contractors and that data on professional service contracts “is almost completely unusable and was never included in any GSA evaluations.”
“These issues have not yet been corrected and we doubt they can be corrected before November” when the FAS plans to apply the rule to the entire MAS program, the IG said in a management “alert memorandum.”
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