Protests hit OASIS+ general small business track

Just shy of a dozen companies are taking issue with how the General Services Administration evaluated their bids for OASIS+, the recompete of a massive governmentwide contract vehicle for professional services.

In July, GSA unveiled its list of 1,383 apparent winners for the general small business set-aside track of OASIS+.

GSA planned to have formal award notifications out by Tuesday (Aug. 12), following the window for protests over whether the selected companies are in fact small businesses.

But ahead of that date, a total of 10 companies so far have filed protests to challenge their exclusion from an award. The general theme of the complaints centers on how they were eliminated from the competition during GSA's acceptability review of the bids.

The protests were filed between Aug. 5 and Tuesday. Decisions from the Government Accountability Office are scheduled for Nov. 13 through Nov. 20.

In light of those protests, GSA said in a Tuesday Sam.gov notice that it will delay the issuance of the formal award notifications and notices to proceed until the protests are resolved.

The companies currently protesting are:

• Athena Technology Group
• AtVentures
• Compel joint venture
• Explore Digits
• Jefferson Consulting Group
• Johnson Technology Systems
• Mission Solaiya joint venture
• Q2 Impact
• SOFtact Solutions
• Venergy Group

Awards remain pending for OASIS+' unrestricted pool and the four small business tracks in 8(a), HUBZone, women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned.

GSA decided to have multiple blocks of small business awards for OASIS+ as opposed to the current iteration of OASIS that has one.

The current OASIS Small Business vehicle is slated to expire on Dec. 19 and roughly $30.9 billion in obligations have gone through it since being opened for business in 2014, according to Deltek data.