Cover_Letter.pdf

Federal Acquisition Service

July 2, 2019

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is pleased to provide the attached

Commercial Platform Initiative (CPI) draft solicitation to obtain commercial e-marketplace platforms that meet the objectives in Section 846 of the 2018 National Defense

Authorization Act, Pub. L. 115-91. This draft solicitation defines the Government’s requirements for multiple commercial e-marketplace platforms that can provide business-to-business (B2B) delivery and process orders made by various Federal entities via the

Government Purchase Card (GPC).

The CPI program and this initial proof of concept solicitation is focused on spend that occurs on the open market, outside of strategic and/or existing Government contracts. It is estimated that open market purchases via GPCs represent an addressable market of $6B.

GSA intends to begin with a limited scope approach by starting with a proof of concept and inviting a subset of Federal agencies to participate as part of the initial offering. The goal of the proof of concept is to test and refine the requirements of the CPI program in order to best meet the Government’s needs going forward.

This draft solicitation will be open for public comment and feedback until August 1, 2019.

Please send all feedback to Section846@gsa.gov. We hope you will consider this opportunity to be a part of the GSA CPI program.

Sincerely, Dominic Lackey

Contracting Officer

Attachments:

Solicitation Solicitation Attachments (Incorporated Into Final Contract) Attachment 1 - Statement of Objectives (SOO)

Attachment 2 – Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP

Solicitation Attachments (Not Incorporated Into Final Contract)

Attachment 3 – Live Test Demonstration (LTD) Guidance mailto:Section846@gsa.gov