The Professional Services Schedule (PSS)

The Professional Services Schedule (PSS) is a comprehensive multiple award schedule that enables federal agencies to procure a wide range of professional services through a single contract vehicle. Based on the solicitation and task orders, the PSS consolidates multiple previous schedules, including Financial and Business Solutions, Advertising & Integrated Marketing Solutions, Language Services, Professional Engineering Services, Business Consulting & Program Support Services, Logistics Services, and Environmental Services. The schedule allows contractors to provide integrated professional service solutions across various domains, with the ability to offer complementary information technology, human resource, and energy management services when ancillary to the primary service offering.

The task orders under this PSS demonstrate a diverse range of services, with a significant concentration of translation and linguistic support services for federal law enforcement, particularly for the Drug Enforcement Administration. Metropolitan Interpreters & Translators, Inc. (Metlang) emerges as a frequent prime contractor, consistently winning labor hour-based task orders ranging from approximately $5,000 to $250,000, typically with performance periods of one to two months. Other notable contractors include SRC Inc., providing toxicological profile development for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and CBRE Inc., offering real estate appraisal services for various federal agencies. While most task orders reviewed do not have specific set-aside designations, one task order to The Collaborative Inc. was designated as a total small business set-aside. The task orders primarily support civilian agencies such as the DEA, CDC, and General Services Administration, with performance locations spanning multiple U.S. states and cities.