Basis of Award

From my experience, yes. My current GSA schedule pricing is based on a large Federal contract we have.

Yes, but if you do, it must be a specific agency and cannot be "the federal government". Normally, the GSA CO will only allow this if a company has no commercial sales with which to base the BOA on. Of course, every CO is different and the GSAM really doesn't address it well. In the office I used to oversee, a contractor with commercial sales had to use a commercial BOA.

Agreed. My experience is GSA KOs will only allow a federal agency as BOA when the company has no commercial sales, and will typically stipulate that should the contractor gain a commercial client (including a federal prime), it must notify the KO and the BOA will change to commercial customers.

Sounds right, thanks. I agree the GSAM is not clear on this point.