GSA adds 560 more firms to OASIS+ unrestricted pool
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By
Ross Wilkers
With 780 proposals submitted, the General Services Administration could still have good news for companies who chased this full-and-open piece of the professional services vehicle but have not won awards yet.
The General Services Administration has released a second batch of awardees for the unrestricted portion of OASIS+, iteration number two of GSA’s massive government-wide professional services vehicle.
Fair warning however: this new list posted Tuesday is a long one to go through with 560 companies on it. They join the first group of 28 awardees GSA announced earlier this month, bringing the total number of winners so far to 588.
GSA is also not declaring its source selection process done yet with 780 proposals submitted for OASIS+ Unrestricted. The agency’s most recent notice reiterates this paragraph from prior postings:
“If, following award announcements, an offeror has not been notified of their award status, their offer is still being evaluated as part of the rolling awards process. This cycle of rolling awards will continue until all awards are made.”
GSA did not give a timeline for when it could unveil more awards. In the meantime, all 588 winners should have received their notices-to-proceed ahead of GSA’s intent to open the fair opportunity ordering window on Friday.
The new One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus vehicle has no ceiling and a period of performance for up to 10 years, inclusive of an initial five-year base period and a single five-year option.
OASIS+ is for acquiring professional services that are not technology-centric in nature, as opposed to GSA’s Alliant and Polaris vehicles that are predominantly about IT and tech needs.
The current OASIS unrestricted vehicle is currently slated to expire on March 1, 2025, and has a current obligation figure of $46.4 billion, according to GovTribe data. Agencies have spent $33.4 billion through the vehicle’s small business track.
For the new OASIS+, GSA decided to break up the small business awards from the current single-pool setup into five different groups with four reserved for individual socioeconomic designations.
The fifth group is general small business, which is currently the subject of a court challenge from Q2 Impact after GSA rejected that company’s bid for a position. Q2 Impact claims its waiver to use banned communications equipment for a U.S. Agency for International Development contract should carry over to OASIS+.
GSA has not made awards yet for the OASIS+ general small business group, but has for the socioeconomic pools: 8(a), woman-owned, HUBZone and service-disabled/veteran-owned small businesses.
More batches of awards for the latter are due over the course of January and February.