The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with the support of the Government-wide Category Management Program Management Office (GWCM PMO), recently announced that 36 Best-in-Class (BIC) solutions, including HCaTS, OASIS and GSA SmartPay, have successfully completed their annual reviews and will retain their BIC designations.

The governmentwide Professional Services Category is inviting small, mid-tier and large businesses industry partners to participate in the next series of Information Exchange Forums in early December. The purpose of the IEF is to capture industry data, insight and recommendations on category specific issues in a structured manner that supports business cases and category management strategic plans.

The following is an update on the OASIS on-ramps. GSA’s OASIS program is conducting a series of open season on-ramps to increase the industrial base on the OASIS Small Business (SB) and OASIS Unrestricted (UR) Pools 1, 3 and 4 and also establish 8(a) SubPools under OASIS SB Pool 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The OASIS Program will host an Industry Partner Briefing on January 14, 2019, to discuss the criteria for becoming an industry partner in the new 8(a) SB Sub-Pools to be added to OASIS Small Business pools 1, 2, 3, 4, 5b & 6.

The OASIS team is pleased to inform you that the Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories has issued a presolicitation notice to “On-Ramp” or add contractors to the existing OASIS Small Business (OASIS SB) Pool 1.

The OASIS team is pleased to announce the release of the solicitation notice to conduct an open season OASIS Unrestricted Pool 2 on-ramp is now available on FedBizOpps. Update: The response date has been extended to September 11, 2018. (Information updated on August 24).