A workflow for everyone
The Catalog Management Office (CMO) is actively finalizing the workflow for Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) services between eMod and the new FAS Catalog Platform (FCP). Simultaneously, they are completing the new Services Plus File for FCP use, marking progress towards launching MAS service functionality in FCP by fiscal year-end 2024 (refer to the attached file for the Services Plus file). (BUY.GSA.GOV NOVEMBER 30, 2023)
The Services Plus file, formerly the Service File, will now accommodate all service contract and catalog data from the Services and Training, and the Language Services Price Proposal Templates. Vendors will also utilize it for non-GSA Advantage! publishable products, such as highly customizable items. (ibid)
Vendors can categorize their offerings in the new template under eight catalog item types:
- Commercial Labor Categories: Vendor-defined labor categories, using the hour (HR) unit of measure.
- Service Contract Labor Standards (SCLS) labor categories: Governed by Service Contract Act laws and regulations, using the HR unit of measure.
- Fixed Price Solutions: Services outside the labor category paradigm, using any unit of measure.
- Courses and Training: Sessions with minimum and maximum student constraints.
- Other Direct Costs (ODCs): Contract-level items sold, supporting public relations and marketing services.
- Language Services: Translation services, translating languages, one or both ways.
- Highly Customizable Products: Products with multiple options, that cannot be sold on GSA Advantage! Priced as a discount to a manufacturer group or family, as opposed to pricing products as a discrete set of line items.
- Ancillary Items: Products or services supporting the dominant service in the Services Plus File, and not sold on GSA Advantage! (ibid)
Questions about how to categorize your offerings? Give us a call.