GSA moves on second big batch of OASIS+ choices
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Ross Wilkers
Approximately 770 companies can now call themselves apparent winners of seats on this recompete of the government's primary vehicle for acquiring professional services.
The General Services Administration has moved ahead on its push to award the recompete of the massive OASIS government-wide professional services vehicle with a second big batch of apparent winners.
GSA on Thursday published its list of 767 choices for three small business tracks of OASIS+ based on socio-economic designation: HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, and women-owned.
Awards for the fourth such category in 8(a) remain pending. So do those for the unrestricted portion, more on that later.
We have to remind that “apparent” is the key word here. The awards are subject to protests over whether the apparent winners are in fact small businesses. Of course, disappointed bidders can challenge their exclusion too at the Government Accountability Office.
GSA wants to send formal award notifications and notices to proceed as early as Sept. 30, pending the post-award debriefs and any protest actions.
Click here for the direct link to GSA’s list of selections in the HUBZone, SDVOSB and WOSB tracks. The list also breaks down where companies were selected in which of the seven OASIS+ domains, where firms could pursue more than one.
The One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus vehicle 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. OASIS covers professional services that are not technology-centric in nature.
GSA does have one protest situation already ongoing for the OASIS+ general small business track that has close to 1,400 apparent winners still waiting on that outcome and notices to proceed.
GAO decisions on those protests are due over the course of November and December. Others that protested are getting second looks at their proposals.
The current OASIS Small Business contract is slated to expire on Dec. 19 and has tallied up approximately $31.6 billion since it was opened for business in 2014, according to Deltek data.
On the matter of the OASIS+ unrestricted portion: a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge on Aug. 13 ruled against Boston Consulting Group’s lawsuit challenging the amount of information GSA is asking companies to provide in their proposals.
That suggests the unrestricted awards have an “any day now” feeling about them. BCG has submitted a proposal and could get a seat on the vehicle anyway.
The current OASIS unrestricted vehicle is currently slated to expire on March 1, 2025 and that obligation figure stands at $44.2 billion, according to GovTribe data.