GSA Faces Push-Back On Proposed Rule Eliminating PRC

Reed Smith attended last Friday's General Services Administration's (GSA) public meeting on the proposed Transactional Data Reporting rule. GSA's proposed rule would eliminate the Price Reduction Clause (PRC) in favor of transactional data reporting. We previously blogged about the parameters of the proposed rule here. GSA held this meeting in the hopes of opening dialogue on this significant change in policy.

Throughout the meeting, GSA faced skepticism from interested members of the public, as well as from the GSA's Office of the Inspector General ("GSA OIG") and Veteran Affair's Office of the Inspector General ("VA OIG"). Interested members of the public voiced privacy concerns regarding the potentially sensitive commercial data GSA would collect through the proposed rule, and the interplay with the Freedom of Information Act. Questions linger as to the details of data collection and who will have access to such data, with GSA noting that this will require