California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS)

California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS) 

CMAS offers a wide variety of commodities, non-IT services, and information technology products and services at prices which have been assessed to be fair, reasonable, and competitive.  The use of these contracts is optional and is available to both California State and Local Government agencies.

Much like GSA but on a regional level, CMAS is a legal contract between the State of California and the athletic surface contractor, allowing a direct purchase to be made without the need for a public bid. The contracts are available to both California State and Local Government agencies.

How it works.  The customer and Atlas agree on both the price and terms with an upper limit specified in the CMAS contract. The customer sends a detailed purchase order (P.O.) to ATLAS for the amount of the contract. Once the P.O is received, the project is officially executed. There is no contract with CMAS, only the P.O. from the school or municipality.

The contract simplifies the purchasing process for the architect and end user. There is no longer the need to formulate detailed bid documents for turf and write product specifications. This allows the architect/designer and the owner to concentrate on other, more important aspects of the project. Bid documents are now only needed to reflect any base, drainage, construction and/or other site work.

In addition, the owner benefits by realizing cost savings due to eliminating part of the bid process and markups of the sports surface by general contractors. The CMAS process also eliminates unnecessary and costly protests, substitution requests and arguments with dissatisfied suppliers. And most of all, the owner is able to obtain their chosen product at discounted market prices, without the uncertainty as well as the time required in the usual bid process.

ATLAS CMAS # 4-08-78-0044A