Building Maintenance & Operations (BMO) Government-wide Strategic Sourcing Solution

Throughout 2014, the U.S General Services Administration (GSA) and its agency commodity partners have solicited feedback from the public and private industry about its future Building Maintenance & Operations (BMO) Services strategic sourcing solution. Also during this time, GSA has been working closely with agency customers in order to truly understand their needs and ensure this is reflected in the future government-wide BMO acquisition solution.

 

Taking the information gleaned from analysis of the current federal market, including current spending and geographic usage levels, and industry comments gathered through GSA’s Interact discussion series, GSA has developed some of the initial BMO solution components. (These proposed components are also being vetted through our agency commodity partners.)

 

GSA is now seeking feedback from private firms of all sizes and related professional associations by issuing a formal Request for Information (RFI). Find a downloadable request for information document and attachments listed below this article. The RFI is focused around four primary, proposed components: (1) service categories, (2) service groupings, (3) labor categories, and (4) geographic service area(s). GSA is encouraging businesses of all sizes to respond in order that we better understand vendors’ current and potential service capabilities, coverage areas, and how they categorize their labor types.

The period for response is scheduled to close on Friday, October 17, 2014. Requests for clarification must be submitted no later than Friday, October 3, 2014, in order to be considered. Questions should be submitted to the program’s Contracting Officer at fssi.bmo@gsa.gov. If you do not plan to submit a formal response but have a general suggestion that can help us, please share it here in the Comments section below (you must be logged-in to Interact). GSA will review information or suggestions submitted in the responses, and examine what alterations should be considered. The responses will help GSA better define its future acquisition solution, and make it a vehicle that is valuable to its customers and easy for service providers to support.

 

Be on the lookout for additional requests for feedback by industry over the coming months, including a second Industry Day scheduled for later in FY2015. To get the latest news and information about the BMO program, subscribe to our email alerts at http://bit.ly/gsabmoupdate.

 

In 2013, Building Maintenance and Operations (BMO) was selected as one of five new commodity categories to be considered as a potential Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI). GSA, in addition to a team comprised of representatives from federal agencies, is now in the process of developing a government-wide program designed to improve the way the federal government purchases and manages these types of services. The final solution award is anticipated in FY2016.