OASIS+ small biz award process moves to 8(a) selections
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Ross Wilkers
A new group of 182 small businesses join the group of apparent winners on this recompete of the government's primary vehicle for non-tech centric professional services.
The General Services Administration has started to unveil who it wants in the final batch of small business awardees for OASIS+, the next iteration of GSA’s massive government-wide professional services vehicle.
GSA on Thursday posted its list of 182 apparent winners for the first phase of rolling awards for the 8(a) portion of OASIS+. More selections are in the works, so do not sweat it if your company or client is not on the list right now.
“If, following award announcements, an offeror has not been notified of their award status, the offeror is still being evaluated as part of the rolling awards process. This cycle of rolling awards will continue until all awards are made,” GSA said in a Sam.gov posting alongside the list.
“Apparent” also remains the apt word here because companies that are now, or will be, on the list are subject to size status protests over whether they are in fact small businesses.
Once the awards are finalized, GSA will send out formal notifications and notices to proceed on the contract as early as Nov. 8.
Click here for the direct link to GSA’s first list of choices for the 8(a) track, which also breaks down where companies were selected across the seven domains of OASIS+. Bidders could pursue more than one domain.
The first group of winners for the OASIS+ woman-owned, HUBZone and service-disabled/veteran-owned small business pools are moving ahead after GSA sent them formal notices to proceed on Sept. 30.
For that set, GSA has said any proposal not among that group of 767 awardees is still under consideration for a seat on the contract.
Awards for the unrestricted pool of OASIS+ remain in the works. GSA’s intent is to make them by the end of October.
While industry waits on those, the general small business pool is encircled by a half dozen protests that the Government Accountability Office should decide between mid-November and early December.
The One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus vehicle has no ceiling and a potential 10-year period of performance, which starts with an initial five-year base period and a single five-year option. Agencies use OASIS to acquire professional services that are not technology-centric in nature.
For OASIS+, GSA decided to make the small business awards across both the different socioeconomic labels and a general category. This is in contrast to the current iteration that has one small business pool alongside the unrestricted portion.
The current OASIS unrestricted vehicle is currently slated to expire on March 1, 2025, and that obligation figure stands at $45.6 billion, according to GovTribe data, while agencies have spent $32.5 billion through the SB pool.