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What is GSA Schedule 84 | Security & Protection Schedule?

Keeping the country safe involves a whole network of organizations and supplies; from law enforcement and the military, to firefighting equipment and flood control. All kinds of security-related products and services are available under the Security & Protection Schedule GSA contract. This is one of the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Large Categories and was previously known as the GSA Schedule 84 contract. By becoming one of the GSA Security & Protection contractors, you are helping to supply our country’s first line of defense.

What is the GSA IT Schedule?

As we all became acutely aware over the past two years, IT rules our world. Without it, our children cannot learn, businesses cannot operate, and governments cannot function. To procure optimum Information Technology products and services for the U.S. Government, from the best vendors and at most optimal prices, the GSA developed category F Information Technology Schedule. It is one of the twelve GSA MAS Large Categories of products and services and was known as IT Schedule 70 or IT70, prior to GSA consolidation. IT Schedule is the contact point between government agencies and commercial IT businesses, and the channel through which billions of dollars in federal spending flow.

Winning a GSA Schedule promises businesses like yours a world of opportunities: decades-long relationships with federal agencies, high-volume contracts, access to exclusive government marketing tools, and much more. The GSA only awards Schedules to those businesses that it believes will excel in supplying the U.S. Government, and so the competition is fierce. What are the 5 ways to stand out from your competitors in the government marketplace?

How do you qualify for GSA and how hard is it to get a GSA contract? 
In general, most vendors that have been fairly stable and successful within their niche in the open market, have got the necessary criteria that it takes to be an effective partaker on the federal arena.

Recently most of GSA contractors received an email titled “Place your Product Photos onto GSA Advantage!”, which meant to bring light to the issue GSA is having with vendors that are not listing products photos, in particular.

Where would the U.S. Government be without its offices? Behind the scenes of every branch of the government is an endless supply chain of office products and services, without which, the bureaucracy of the country could not function. From books, pens and toner cartridges to administrative support, legal services and document production, everything related to the government office is provided through the Office Management Large Category – one of the GSA Schedule’s 12 Large Categories.