Lookout for OASIS+ (and what you should know!)
Last week, we discussed the highly anticipated PICS III IDIQ. Another IDIQ catching a lot of attention and promoting discussion is the anticipated OASIS+. It’s expected to issue $60B+ of federal dollars…and as many of you know, OASIS has been a widely used contracting vehicle, particularly with many of your target departments/agencies, e.g. DoD, DHS, and many others. OASIS+ is anticipated to combine OASIS, OASIS Small Business, Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS), and Building, Maintenance, and Operations (BMO).
The domains currently in scope are Management and Advisory, Technical and Engineering, Research and Development, Intelligence Services, Enterprise Solutions, Environmental Services, Facilities, and Logistics. At this time, it’s a little unclear where marketing communications services will fall. Here’s what we know:
In the Draft Scope of Work, the 541613 NAICS was mentioned in the Management and Advisory Domain; however, none of the sub-services was a direct match to services provided by most marketing communications firms.
Later in the Draft Scope of Work, GSA called out Marketing and Public Relations as well as Human Capital (among others) as future domains that were being considered.
We are expecting the draft RFP to be released shortly. In our outreach to GSA this morning about the timing, we received notice that they are no longer answering questions on this giving indication that the RFP might be released imminently.
There are three reasons to be positive, specifically:
GSA will have six set-aside programs: Total Small Business, 8(a) Small Business, HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB and Unrestricted.
Historically, there has been heavy weighting in various certifications, e.g. ISO, CMMI; in the released qualifications matrix these only account for 2% of the total scoring.
And, unlike many other GWACs and IDIQs, GSA is not anticipated to limit the number of awards; instead, they will set a pre-defined score threshold that guarantees an award, if reached.
Suggested next steps: review the updated draft qualifications matrix that was published last month (LINK) and get a sense for how they are organizing as well as scoring each submission. If there’s anything that we can do to support, e.g. discussing your strategy to pursue, how you stack up in the anticipated scoring matrix, building a comprehensive team to fill any gaps (or pursue a JV strategy), or conducting reviews - don’t hesitate to reach out.