The Professional Services Council (PSC) recommended several changes to the General Services Administration’s OASIS procurement draft solicitations in comments filed on April 29. In its comments, PSC also praised GSA for its extensive outreach efforts and expressed overall support for the intent of OASIS.
In its comments, PSC encouraged GSA to increase the weight given to commercial sector past performance. The draft RFP provides twice the credit for government sector past performance than it does for commercial sector past performance. As such, GSA and ordering agencies risk losing access to commercial sector innovation. PSC’s comments also raised a number of other questions that it believes GSA must clarify in the final RFP. Similarly, PSC recommended GSA equate the scoring values for past performance evaluations for work performed on the state and local levels to the scoring values ascribed to federal work.
PSC’s comments also raised a number of other issues that GSA must clarify in the final RFP to ensure government access to the top services providers. They include:
- Revising the Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) compliance requirement to provide that offerors who do not have CAS-covered systems will not be excluded from the initial award phase but will be ineligible to compete for task orders that require such systems.
- Removing certain system, certification, and resource requirements from the initial contract formation evaluation criteria and apply them at the task order level as needed.
- Injecting flexibility into the requirements by clarifying that specific certifications or an equivalent certification is acceptable.
- Allowing for third-party audit approval of accounting systems.
