Last year, the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) received nearly 13,000 responses to our annual Customer Satisfaction Survey. We’d like to share with you some information and guidance to continue to improve the customer experience.

This report indicates the progress of each EIS contractor’s BSS FISMA Security Assessment & Authorization (A&A).  EIS requires a “moderate” authorization as defined in FIPS 199, NIST SP 800-60 and GSA Policies and Procedures.  The Process begins with the contractor’s completion of all required documentation, along with security vulnerability and system compliance scans. Upon GSA’s acceptance of the documentation and security scans, GSA’s Security Assessment Team conducts a Security A&A Initiation meeting with the contractor.

The Catalog Management Initiative aims to identify existing catalog problems, consider data standardization methodologies, conduct market research on commercial capabilities, define requirements, and implement a catalog management solution that enhance GSA’s catalog management capabilities. Through these catalog management solutions GSA will streamline and improve the way that GSA ingests, validates and manages catalog information. GSA is seeking input from industry as well as customers on recommendations for one or all of these areas of focus.

The draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) was provided to OASIS Pool 4 awardees by email to oasis-u-awardees-pool-4@gsa.gov on Thursday, May 2, 2019. The draft PWS was uploaded to the virtual reading room earlier today. Comments to the PWS are due no later than Friday, May 10, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT.  Please ensure your firm has registered for access to the virtual reading room.  Instructions are available in the post titled, “S3I Life Cycle Software Engineering Requirement - Update 1” dated May 2, 2019.