8(a) STARS II GWAC Open Season
Added: Apr 30, 2015 3:47 pm The General Services Administration (GSA) has been designated by the Office of Management and Budget as an Executive Agent for the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (STARS) II Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), which consists of a base period from August 31, 2011 - August 30, 2016 and an option period from August 31, 2016 - August 30, 2021. STARS II covers a broad range of information technology (IT) services and IT services-based solutions. The Request For Proposals (RFP) is reserved for 8(a) certified, small business concerns as the prime contractors per Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.8, and the Small Business Administration's (SBA) regulations for the 8(a) Business Development Program (www.sba.gov). STARS II promotes the use of performance-based contracting and accommodates task orders with the following terms: fixed-price (FP) (all in FAR 16.2), time-and materials (T&M) (per FAR 16.6), and labor-hour (LH) (per FAR 16.6). STARS II will also allow requiring activities to choose among the incentive features found in FAR 16.4 that are tied to FP, T&M and LH terms. This synopsis is the presolicitation notice for the STARS II Open Season (OS) Request for Proposals (RFP). STARS II OS is a new competition that will result in new awards on STARS II for the balance of its contract life. STARS II OS information is exclusively associated with solicitation QTA0015MDA2001.If possible, STARS II OS awards will be made at the STARS II option period beginning August 31, 2016. However, that start date is not guaranteed and may be later during the option period. Regardless of when STARS II OS awards are made, the contract term will end August 30, 2021.FedBizOpps (FBO) is the only source for solicitation QTA0015MDA2001 - which will be posted on or about May 18, 2015. Please hold all STARS II OS inquiries until after the solicitation is posted on FBO.GSA intends to host optional pre-proposal teleconferences consisting of a RFP overview on or about May 27, 2015. More information about the optional pre-proposal teleconferences will be published with the RFP itself.Although no amendments to the RFP are anticipated, only a written amendment associated with a SF-30 and publicly posted in connection with solicitation QTA0015MDA2001 on FBO is official.All STARS II OS proposals must be submitted via a secure web portal (portal) known as AcquServe (TM) that is operated by Noblis - a nonprofit organization under contract with GSA. Registering in the portal and using it to submit proposals is mandatory - no other method of proposal submission will be accepted. In order to register in the portal, an ACES Business Representative digital certificate is required. Review the guide titled "Instructions for Obtaining an ACES Business Representative Digital Certificate for GSA STARS II Proposal Submission" which contains information about purchasing a required ACES Business Representative digital certificate. Portal registration is not available now but will be at a later date, and will be announced in FBO. Purchasing a new ACES Business Representative digital certificate can take weeks, so interested parties should begin the process now.The STARS II Procuring Contracting Officer is the sole point of contact for this procurement, who can best be reached at s2os@gsa.gov. Inquiries directed elsewhere might not be considered. GSA reserves the right to publicly discuss and publish, or simply consider, questions and comments regarding the RFP.No requests for meetings regarding S2OS will be entertained.It is the responsibility of the offerors to check FBO periodically for more information. QTA0015MDA2001 GSA Federal Acquisition Service
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