The OASIS Draft RFPs are Now Available on FedBizOpps! - March 28, 2013

Submitted by OASIS Blogger on Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 11:06 AM

Hello Industry Partners, I am very pleased to announce the release of the OASIS Draft RFPs, which I know all of you have been eagerly awaiting for quite some time. The OASIS team would like to extend a big ‘thank you’ to our Industry partners for their participation in the development process; in particular, we’d like to especially thank those who answered our call for white papers this summer and participated in One-on-One due diligence sessions with us.

We were thrilled with the turnout and made good use of your feedback as we developed the Draft RFPs. As a result, we have two separate drafts for both OASIS and OASIS SB (small business) solicitations, which are now available on FedBizOpps: OASIS and OASIS Small Business.

While we invite your comments and questions across the board, there are a few topics of particular interest which I would like to highlight. These are areas where we feel we’ve deployed particularly innovative approaches. Over the course of the next few weeks, I will be posting a series of blogs addressing each of these to explain our thought processes, the challenges we are trying to overcome, and why we decided to move in the direction we did. These areas include: Evaluation Strategy and Pricing; the use of Pools to capture appropriate size standards, On-Ramps, Off-Ramps and Dormant Status; Development of Labor Categories; Contract Reporting Requirements; and perhaps others based on ongoing feedback.

The team looks forward to reading your feedback!

Jim

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EddieM0369

JimJust a quick question:  If we have a contract of say, $150M and we come to the end of the Period of Performance and then are subsequently issued a Bridge contract of say, $50M.  Could these two be combined as one contract valuing at $150M?  How will Bridge contracts be looked at with regards to OASIS? Thank You Respectfully, Ed

Posted 06/11/2013 1:26 PM

OASIS Blogger

Hi Ed and thank you for your question.  The two contracts could not be combined.  “Bridge” contracts are treated no differently than any other contract.  Now, that scenario could be used as two examples, but not combined into one example.  Jim

Posted 06/11/2013 2:40 PM

CampS

I might have missed them in the blog, but does the OASIS team plan on publishing the final set of Qs and As following the 4/29 deadline?  I think the last set I saw posted was on 4/26.  Thanks!

Posted 05/08/2013 9:10 AM

MCGroupInc

Jim,I am surprised to see a number of the requirements in the Offeror's Proposal Checklist, Section J.4, Attachment (4). For example, under Sction L.5.1, #5 it clearly says that small business offerors are ineligible for an award if they do not have an existing CTA. Also, on pages 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Section J.4, item 2 requires each project to exceed at least $2m per year in total award value or the offeror is ineligible for an award. These requirements are surprises.  Why is no CTA grounds for being ineligible? Why must a small business offeror have 5 eligible projects, each of which must have an annual value of at least $2m?John Boulware

Posted 03/28/2013 8:20 PM

OASIS Blogger

<span id="internal-source-marker_0.5614169439635242" style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hi John and thanks for the questions.  All questions that are specifically related to the draft RFPs need to be submitted via Attachment 10 of the draft RFPs and answers will be posted every Friday morning.  This just helps us keep all of the Q&As together and organized so that everyone can benefit from the questions.  Thanks... Jim

Posted 04/01/2013 3:38 PM

Jenifer A Fisch

Hi Jim.I have a process question for you. On February 20, you posted "rules of engagement", one of which indicated that GSA would designate a brief time period during which you will again entertain one-on-one meetings with interested Industry Partners. The posting also described the "price of admission" -- a list of formal questions, comments or suggestions in response to the draft. Is this still part of the post-draft RFP plan? If so, can you share the timeframe for requesting and holding these meetings and tell us a bit more about the process?Thanks.Jenifer Fisch

Posted 03/28/2013 6:48 PM

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