Glossary / Contracts
GSA Schedule (Multiple Award Schedule)GSA Schedule
The General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule, formally the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), is a long-term, governmentwide contract administered by GSA. Once a contractor is awarded a Schedule contract, agencies across government can place orders against it under the simplified ordering procedures in FAR 8.4. The MAS covers millions of commercial products and services across Large Categories like IT, Professional Services, and Facilities. For an order above the simplified acquisition threshold ($350,000 since October 1, 2025), the buyer must post the request or send it to enough Schedule holders to reasonably expect at least three quotes. Schedule contracts have 5-year base periods and up to 15 years of options.
Why it matters to your pipeline
A GSA Schedule is a common way into the federal market. Once you're on Schedule, agencies can buy from you without running a new full competition, and they do so with pre-negotiated pricing. But submitting a Schedule offer is itself a lot of work, and Schedule contracts carry ongoing compliance obligations: price reductions, TAA country-of-origin, industrial funding fee reporting, and more. Strategic Schedule holders treat the contract as a platform for a broader BPA and task-order portfolio.
When this term shows up in an opening GovSmith finds for you, your vCM explains what it means for that pursuit and does whatever it calls for. You decide; we do the work.
Example
A 25-person cybersecurity firm earns a GSA MAS contract. Within 18 months, it wins six agency BPAs totaling $11M in ceiling, all executed as mini-competitions among three Schedule holders. No open-market RFPs required.
Find out what applies to you
Some terms will matter to your business right away and some won’t for years. A vCM can tell you which are which.