OASIS+ award process starts to roll
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Ross Wilkers
The General Services Administration tells around 1,400 small businesses they are "apparent winners" in one track for this massive professional services vehicle with more groups of awards on the way.
The General Services Administration is out of the gate with a first block of apparent winners for the recompete of OASIS, a massive governmentwide contract vehicle for complex professional services non-tech centric in nature.
GSA on Tuesday published its list of 1,383 small businesses for the general set-aside track of OASIS+ that SBs of any labeling could pursue.
"Apparent" is the apt word here. The awards are subject to protests over whether the selected companies are in fact small businesses. GSA expects to send formal award notifications and and notices to proceed as early as Aug. 12.
Click here for the direct link to the OASIS+ Small Business Set Aside apparent awardee list. GSA plans to reopen the solicitation for an on-ramp process in 2025, so companies not selected this time can have another chance.
One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus has no ceiling and a potential 10-year period of performance, beginning with an initial five-year base period and a single five-year option.
Many companies were chosen for more than one domain and the breakdown of OASIS+ SB awards is as follows:
- Management and advisory services - 829
- Technical and engineering services - 816
- Intelligence services - 241
- Research and development services - 219
- Logistics services - 160
- Facilities services - 141
- Environmental services – 87
The current OASIS Small Business contract is slated to expire on Dec. 19 and has seen approximately $30.6 billion in obligations go through it since being opened for business in 2014, according to Deltek data.
In a departure from the current iteration, OASIS+ has multiple tracks for small businesses based on their socio-economic designations, along with the more general pool that has apparent winners.
Awards are pending for OASIS+' other four small business tracks in 8(a), HUBZone, women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned.
The unrestricted track also is currently in source selection mode and has a slightly more complicated picture we need to explain.
Boston Consulting Group has an active lawsuit against that procurement at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, where a judge on Thursday approved GSA's request for an extension on the current voluntary stay in the case through Aug. 14.
In late May, GSA notified the court it would not make awards until July 31 (today) and got the stay in place.
Regarding the lawsuit, BCG is likely claiming GSA is asking for too much financial information regarding commercial items such as some of the services to be offered under OASIS+.
BCG already lost that argument at the Government Accountability Office, so the firm went to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Of course, pricing was never intended to be part of OASIS+ at all until GSA received an unfavorable court ruling on how it was running the Polaris IT vehicle for small businesses. GSA put pricing back into OASIS+ as a means to comply with that decision.
GAO's decision against BCG does say the firm has a proposal in for OASIS+, so it could still be selected for a seat on the vehicle.
We, and they, just have to wait until Aug. 14 to find out. The current OASIS unrestricted vehicle does currently have an expiration date of March 1, 2025. An inevitable post-award protest window would lead to an extension.