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GSA generally requires 69 days for a review, Krumbholz said.

Agencies that decide to chose vendors through a statement of work or objectives must submit those documents to GSA for review. However, to qualify for money held by GSA that would cover agencies’ one-time transition fees associated and the cost of running parallel networks for as long as 30 days, agencies must select a vendor by the end of this fiscal year. Agencies have 26 more months until their FTS 2001 contracts expire. Concerning whether a sliding-scale fee is still on the table, Krumbholz said the agency will study the overhead associated with agencies that directly handle their telecom bills. The idea for the discount originated outside GSA’s regular Networx team, agency officials confirmed at the time.

GSA took that action after giving the Treasury Department a steep discount in January 2007 as an incentive to drop its own telecom procurement in favor of buying through GSA.