Furniture Committee July 22, 2015

Agenda Guest Speaker: Update – Huntsville Army Corps of Engineers Michael Alexander, Chief of Furniture Acquisition IWAC Working Group Updates - Packaged Office IWAC Working Group Updates – RFQ Against the GSA Schedule Policy Updates Upcoming Events & Training

IWAC Working Group Updates IWAC Working Group Updates - Packaged Office IWAC Working Group Updates – RFQ Against the GSA Schedule

Policy Update Transactional Data Reporting Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces

Transactional Data Proposed rule published March 4 1. Contract or BPA Number 7. Unit Measure (each, hour, case, lot) 2. Order Number/Procurement Instrument Identifier (PIID) 8. Quantity of Item Sold 3. Non Federal Entity, if applicable 9. Universal Product Code (UPC), if applicable 4. Description of Deliverable 10. Price Paid per Unit 5. Manufacturer Name 11. Total Price 6. Manufacturer Part Number   Proposed rule published March 4 Contractors to report transactional data from orders and prices paid by ordering activities FSS contract and GSA non-FSS contract orders (not VA) Report transactional data at the order and BPA level to GSA monthly

Transaction Data Member Survey Approx 70 member company responses Small, medium and large businesses 98% GSA Schedule contractors 42% have GWACs through GSA One quarter small business Based on survey estimated total cost to implement transactional data is $814,700,534—30 times GSA’s estimate of $24 million

Transactional Data- Action Items Presented Survey results and expressed industry concerns to GSA in public hearing and in public comments Testified before Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce Testimony: http://thecgp.org/images/Transactional-Data-Written-Testimony_Coalition1.pdf Watch the hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTDBVGFGwA Mythbuster’s dialogue with OFPP’s Matthew Blum on July 14

Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Implementation of “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Executive Order 13673 Dept of Labor Guidance FAR proposed rule Significant increase in compliance and reporting burdens for both government and industry Requires contractors to disclose labor violations and tasks COs with assessing these disclosures prior to awarding contracts Disclosure requirements apply to contracts over $500,000 and flow down to subcontractors The Coalition will be submitting comments on this rule by August 11, 2015.

Upcoming Events & Training Webinar- Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces: What Commercial Service and Product Companies Need to Know Rescheduled - TBD Board of Advisors Meeting July 30 | 8:00am-11:00am GDIT MAS Basic Training August 12 | 7:30am-4:30pm Dentons GSA Schedule Contracting for In-house Counsel Training August 13 | 7:30am-4:30pm Dentons 3rd Annual Joseph Caggiano Memorial Golf Tournament August 26 | Whiskey Creek (Ijamsville, MD)

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