GSA Schedule (Multiple Award Schedule)

What is GSA Schedule?

The GSA Schedule — formally the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program, also called Federal Supply Schedules — is a set of long-term, governmentwide indefinite-delivery contracts administered by the General Services Administration. A company that wins a Schedule contract has its commercial products, services, and pricing pre-negotiated and pre-approved, so federal (and many state and local) buyers can place orders against it without running a full open competition each time, under the ordering procedures of FAR Subpart 8.4.

GSA consolidated what had been roughly two dozen separate schedules into a single Multiple Award Schedule — the consolidated solicitation was released in 2019 and existing contractors were moved onto the single schedule through a mass modification completed in 2020. The single MAS is organized into large categories (such as IT, professional services, and facilities) and subordinate Special Item Numbers (SINs) that describe specific offerings.

For vendors, a Schedule contract is a durable channel rather than a single sale: it can run for many years and serves as the base for Schedule BPAs and individual orders. Getting on the Schedule requires a substantial offer (commercial sales practices, pricing disclosures, past performance), but once on it, the vendor is visible to the federal buying community through GSA's ordering tools.