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The General Services Administration (GSA) is issuing a final rule amending the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to require vendors to report transactional data from orders and prices paid by ordering activities.  This includes orders placed against both Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract vehicles and GSA’s non-FSS contract vehicles, Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) and Multi-Agency Contracts (MACs).

Once implemented, the new GSAR transactional data reporting clauses will enable GSA to provide Federal agencies with further market intelligence and expert guidance in procuring goods and services in each category of GSA acquisition vehicles.  The new requirement will not affect the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) FSS contract holders.

The proposed amendment to the GSAR will add an alternate version of the existing GSAR clause 552.238-74 Industrial Funding Fee and Sales Reporting (IFF) (Federal Supply Schedule) and a new GSAR clause 552.216-75 Sales Reporting and Fee Remittance.  Under the FSS program, vendors that agree to the new transactional reporting requirement will have their contracts modified with an alternate version of clause 552.238-75 Price Reductions; the alternate version of clause 552.238-75 does not require the vendor to monitor and provide price reductions to the Government when the customer or category of customer upon which the contract was predicated receives a discount.  

GSA will implement the new transactional data reporting requirements in phases, beginning with specific contract vehicles, including a few select Federal Supply Schedules, or Special Item Numbers that show the greatest potential to optimize transactional data via category management and reduced price variability.  GSA will engage stakeholders throughout the phases of the implementation.

GSA is reviewing the public comments received and analyzing alternatives for collecting transactional data, including the potential publication of a final rule.  This case is included in GSA's retrospective review of existing regulations under Executive Order 13563.  Additional information is located in GSA's retrospective review (2016), available at:  www.gsa.gov/improvingregulations.