On May 23, 2023, the Court of Federal Claims (COFC) granted a preliminary injunction halting the award and performance of a contract awarded to Cloud Harbor Economics, LLC Cloud Harbor from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare &...
GSA and VA Schedule Consulting Advice
Tuesday Insight – June 27th, 2023: GSA Releases Recorded Pre-solicitation Conference and Training for OASIS+ System for Proposal Submission (OSP)
GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) has released a recorded pre-proposal conference and a recorded training on the OASIS+ Submission Portal (OSP/Symphony) on SAM.gov. The optional pre-proposal conference provides an overview of the OASIS+...
Tuesday Insight – June 20th, 2023: GSA Releases Final OASIS+ Request for Proposals
UPDATE June 15th, 2023 GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) has released the final Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for six solicitations that encompass the OASIS+ program. This marks the final step in the acquisition phase of standing up the...
Tuesday Insight – June 13th, 2023 OASIS+ Final Solicitation Program Update
UPDATE June 8th, 2023 GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital (PSHC) thanked industry partners for patience as GSA wraps-up the final details of the acquisition strategy for OASIS+. We anticipate the final solicitations to be released on or about June...
GSA and SBA Launch Initiative to Broaden Small Federal Contracting Landscape
A new designation will create a special pool for 8(a) businesses eligible for sole source awards and competitive set-aside contracts. The General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration have launched a program to help widen the pool of small...
Tuesday Insight – May 30th, 2023: Joint Ventures
JV Program Benefits Joint venture benefits to participants include: Collective representation of past performance Shared costs and resources Leveraging the other partner’s experience and market share A mentor and its protégé can joint venture as a small business for...
Tuesday Insight – May 9th, 2023: GSA OASIS+ RFP Change and Delay
Due to an April 21, 2023 Court of Federal Claims ruling related to the GSA Polaris procurement indicated that GSA interpreted Section 876 of the 2018 Defense Authorization Act to broadly and as a result GSA will now need to make a significant change to the OASIS+...
Tuesday Insight – February 14th, 2023: Back to Basics: Registering in SAM.gov
SAM.gov, short for System for Award Management, is the entry point for federal contractors to interface with the government. So, it is a basic starting point for every federal contractor. But your SAM.gov profile also needs to stay up to date and be up to date at time...
Tuesday Insight – January 10, 2023: GSA Surged Resources to Meet Inflation-Related Schedule Modifications, Now onto Longer Term Improvements
As the increase in product and services costs started to hit the federal sector last year, the General Services Administration heard the complaints and frustrations of vendors for how long it took to modify schedule contracts, especially for adjusting prices to...
Tuesday Insight – August 9th, 2022: The State of Governmentwide Contracting
This week on Off the Shelf, Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, shared his insights, analysis, and observations on the state of governmentwide contracting, with a focus on GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program. Gormley provided his take on the impact...
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