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Contractors weigh in on how AI fits into GSA rules that weren\u2019t built for it<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-24 17:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Terry Gerton <\/strong>Earlier today, I had an interview with Dan Ramish talking about the legal details of GSA\u2019s new draft MAS mod on artificial intelligence. I know that you are spending a lot of time talking to industry about that. Let\u2019s start with what\u2019s at stake in this mod for contractors, especially when it comes to AI and emerging technologies.<\/p>\n

Jim Carroll <\/strong>The Multiple Award Schedule, the MAS, mod is just that \u2014 it\u2019s a great platform to allow consistent, good vendors to be able to sell their commercial products prearranged. It\u2019s a very efficient way to do business. And overall, it\u2019s something that our members support and it\u2019s good government. It creates efficiency. So as a whole, we\u2019re very supportive of the MAS, and the concept of a refresh is valid also. But there are some concerns with the way that it has been published. And we\u2019ve been talking with our members \u2014 you know, Terry, we represent 400 members, all who do business with the federal government. So this is something that we have been watching closely. We\u2019ve been interacting on, I\u2019d like to say daily, but really it seems like an hourly basis, at least since this was really a short time period to respond to make sure that we\u2019re addressing some of the concerns while keeping in mind what the government really wants to do. The concern overall is that the comment period, the implementation timeline are quick; we\u2019re having to move very quickly. I think our policy folks that are working on this, I don\u2019t think they slept much over the weekend trying to assemble all these comments. And Terry, it sort of seems like we\u2019re never able to come on the show and say, Oh, my gosh, it\u2019s such a slow week with the federal government. And this certainly is proving that. So one is they\u2019re trying to move quickly, which again, we\u2019re happy to do that, but it\u2019s a little bit of a concern that they don\u2019t understand that this is actually a very complicated modification and while we…<\/p>\n

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