GSA starts to make OASIS+ general small business choices official
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Ross Wilkers
The General Services Administration names 1,373 companies as final winners for this piece of the government-wide professional services contract vehicle
The General Services Administration has made official its first batch of winners for the general small business track of OASIS+, the recompete of a massive government-wide professional services contract vehicle.
Back in July, GSA posted a list of 1,383 small businesses that it deemed “apparent winners” of a position on the vehicle. Those awards were subject to protests over whether companies on that list were small businesses or not.
Now the number stands at 1,373 final winners in new information posted Thursday to the Federal Procurement Data System.
Click here to see who is on it. These companies have received notices-to-proceed, but do keep in mind that this is not the end of the line to find out who wins a seat on OASIS+.
GSA’s posting of the newest award batch reiterates what it has said before about the rolling process:
“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.”
The new One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus vehicle has four other small business groups that are reserved for individual socioeconomic labels, in addition to the general SB track just awarded.
GSA has made initial batches of awards for the 8(a), woman-owned, HUBZone and service-disabled/veteran-owned groups. More awards for those are due to fall during January and February.
GSA apparently was able to move on, what it hopes are, its final selections for the OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside track. Companies of any socioeconomic distinction and those with only an SB labeling were eligible to bid for the vehicle.
One protest remains active in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims from Q2 Impact, a bidder GSA eliminated because the company’s proposal evidently involves the use of banned communications equipment.
Q2 believes its waiver to use Huawei Technologies equipment on a U.S. Agency for International Development contract should apply for OASIS+, but GSA’s position is that the waiver only applies to USAID and not across government.
Oral arguments are scheduled for Jan. 29, while all motions and responses to them have a Jan. 17 deadline.
In the meantime, GSA also is moving ahead with its awards for the unrestricted portion of OASIS+. GSA added 560 companies as awardees on Tuesday, bringing the total number of winners there to 588 so far.
OASIS+ has no ceiling and a potential duration of 10 years, which includes an initial five-year base period and a single five-year option. Agencies use OASIS+ to acquire professional services that are not tech-centric in nature.