Overview: The Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) schedule, providing direct access to simple or complex fixed-price or labor-hour professional services including:
Advertising and marketing solutions
Business consulting solutions
Environmental solutions
Financial and business solutions
Language services
Logistics services
Professional engineering solutions
Benefits: When using MAS to acquire professional services, agencies can:
Use simplified acquisition procedures to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) using either your agency's solicitation system or GSA's eBuy solicitation system, or issue an RFQ directly to contractors using your agency's procedures
Allow unique contractor team arrangements to bring a wide variety of industry partners to the negotiation table
Customize terms and conditions in task orders - or through Blanket Purchase Agreements - to meet specific requirements
Be assured that required FAR terms and conditions are incorporated into the contract
Ensure adequate participation by small businesses, including setting aside RFQs for various socioeconomic subgroups
Save time by using the streamlined procurement procedures of FAR Subpart 8.4
