OASIS Plus Final RFP Cover Letter.pdf

Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories Federal Acquisition Service

06/15/2023

Subject: Cover Letter: OASIS+ Requests For Proposals

GSA’s Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories (PSHC) is pleased to announce the release of the final Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for the OASIS+ Program.

PSHC made several adjustments to the final RFPs based on additional consideration of the second draft RFPs, which were released in March 2023. Details about the changes reflected in the final RFPs include (but are not limited to) the following:

a. Added Other Transactional Authority (OTA) as allowable project submissions

b. Reverted Meaningful Relationship Commitment Letter (MRCL) to allow Offeror to take credit for any evaluation element, including Qualifying Projects (QPs), Federal Experience Projects (FEPs), past performance, system(s), certification(s), or clearance(s) from a Parent Company, Affiliate, Division, and/or Subsidiary so long as there is a meaningful relationship to the Offeror and commitment letters are provided to the Government.

c. Removed Attachment J.P-1, Representations and Certifications. The OASIS+ Submission Portal (OSP) will facilitate Offeror representations and certifications, and this attachment is no longer necessary.

d. Clarified OASIS+ Unrestricted teaming strategy at Section L.5.1.3.

e. Revised Period of Performance strategy to reflect one five-year base period and one five-year option period that may extend the cumulative term of the contract to 10 years.

f. Clarified reciprocal contract cancellation language at Section H.20.

g. Clarified Surge Capability at L.5.2.3.4.

h. Finalized Contract Access Fee (CAF) Rate in Section B.11.

i. Added requirement that, for offers from SBA Mentor-Protégé joint ventures, a minimum of one Relevant QP must be from the protégé or the offering Mentor-Protégé joint venture.

j. Revised and re-titled Section H.22: Teaming Limitations and Responsibilities.

k. Added a requirement to submit cost/price as an evaluation factor in Section L.5.7.

Evaluation criteria for cost/price can be found at Section M.8.

l. Added FAR clause 52.204-27, Prohibition on a ByteDance Covered Application

m. Other minor changes throughout the RFP.

GSA is proposing to amend the General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to update GSAR clause 552.216-75, Transactional Data Reporting, and bring certain reporting elements into conformance with current GSA business practices, move existing CAF requirements to a new standalone GSAR clause, and make other administrative amendments related to these revisions. The new CAF clause will apply to GSA-awarded Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts, Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), and Multi-Agency contracts (MACs) when a CAF is required. GSA in the process of initiating GSAR Case 2023-G507, 1800 F Street, NW Washington DC 20405-0002 www.gsa.gov http://www.gsa.gov/

Docket No. GSA-GSAR-2023-G507, Updating Reporting Elements for Non-MAS contracts, and will be requesting comments on the proposed rule to be considered in the formation of the final rule. When the final rule is published, GSA will be amending the OASIS+ RFPs to include the updated and new clauses. If the final rule is not published prior to the solicitation closing date, GSA plans to modify the master contracts, once awarded, to include the updated and new clauses. The OASIS+ acquisition team is also considering potential updates to the non-Mentor-Protégé evaluation criteria pertaining to socioeconomic joint ventures.

The following final RFPs are included in the solicitation:

● OASIS+ Small Business RFP (47QRCA23R0001)

● OASIS+ 8(a) RFP (47QRCA23R0002)

● OASIS+ HUBZone RFP (47QRCA23R0003)

● OASIS+ SDVOSB RFP (47QRCA23R0004)

● OASIS+ WOSB RFP (47QRCA23R0005)

● OASIS+ Unrestricted RFP (47QRCA23R0006)

The OASIS+ RFPs contain the following attachments:

● Master Contract Attachments:

○ J-1 OASIS+ Labor Categories and Bureau of Labor Statistics Standard

Occupational Classifications

○ J-2 Task Order, Transactional Data, and Contract Access Fee Reporting

○ J-3 Cybersecurity & Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Deliverables

○ J-4 Department of Defense Required Provisions and Clauses for Task Orders

○ J-5 OASIS+ Task Order Clause and Provision Matrix

● RFP Provisional Attachments:

○ J.P-1 OASIS+ Domain Qualifications Matrix and Scorecards

○ J.P-2 FPDS Sample

○ J.P-3 Project Verification Form

○ J.P-4 OASIS+ Domains Auto-Relevant NAICS Codes and PSCs

○ J.P-5 Functional Areas and Sub-Areas

○ J.P-6 Past Performance Rating Form

○ J.P-7 Joint Venture Work & Qualifications Template

○ J.P-8 Direct Labor Rate Ranges

○ J.P-9 Cost/Price Template

○ J.P-10 OASIS+ Individual Model Subcontracting Plan (Unrestricted RFP Only)

○ J.P-11 OASIS+ Commercial Model Subcontracting Plan (Unrestricted RFP Only)

An optional pre-proposal conference will be recorded and released on SAM.gov and posted to GSA’s OASIS+ Interact Community Page shortly after the final RFPs are posted to provide an overview of the OASIS+ RFPs. This conference will not introduce new information that is not already in the RFPs. Details on accessing the recording will be provided through this https://buy.gsa.gov/interact/community/196/activity-feed announcement in the coming days. Following Q&A, the OASIS+ team may issue supplemental short video releases to target frequently asked questions or areas that require additional explanation.

The OASIS+ Contracting Officers are the sole point of contact for all questions under this solicitation. Industry is welcome to submit any questions until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, July 6, 2023. Offerors must submit all questions regarding the solicitation via the OSP. Questions not submitted via the OSP will not be answered. GSA reserves the right to publicly discuss and publish, or simply consider, questions and comments regarding the RFPs. Answered questions will be made available on SAM.gov. See Section L.3.5 for additional information.

The OSP will utilize Symphony Procurement Suite for OASIS+ proposal submissions and evaluations. A recorded Symphony proposal submission training will be posted on SAM.gov in the coming weeks. The training will provide instructions on how to use Symphony to respond to the OASIS+ solicitation. Symphony allows Offerors to build proposal responses and see a projected live score throughout the process.

This is the order anticipated for release of OSP functionality:

● June 19th

○ Q&A is available - Industry may start submitting questions.

○ Industry can update Company Assets (projects, business factors, team members).

● June 26th

○ Industry can begin to build their proposal and see live scoring.

● July 15th

○ Everything is open - Price proposals can be built, and offers can be submitted.

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LINK for OSP registration: https://oasis.app.cloud.gov/

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