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GSA releases RFQ for Centers of Excellence model to ‘deliver results far more easily’

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The General Services Administration has released a request for quotation for Phase One of its Center of Excellence discovery services, laying the groundwork for GSA to set up CoEs at new partner agencies.

Rather than rely on one contract for the discovery work at each agency, the blanket purchase agreement aims to allow GSA to find the vendor that best fits each agency’s unique needs.

“This BPA is intended to account for each future CoE Agency Partner by offering a means of initial and continuous discovery work, by Center need, considering the various different factors, influences, and context that apply to each Agency Partner’s organizational transformation needs,” the RFQ states.

The request, which was released Monday, comes about a month after GSA gathered industry feedback from its request for information.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition/2019/03/gsa-releases-rfq-for-centers-of-excellence-model-to-deliver-results-far-more-easily/

Draft solicitation for Pentagon’s multibillion enterprise solutions contract released

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The Pentagon took the next step in bidding out its Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract Friday, Feb. 1st, releasing a draft request for quotations for an enterprise cloud service offering likely worth several billion dollars.

The draft solicitation indicates DEOS will be a single-award firm-fixed-price blanket purchase agreement, with a 5-year base period with two 2-year options and a 1-year option—a potential 10-year total period of performance.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/02/draft-solicitation-multibillion-deos-contract-released/154595/

Appeals court says extension constitutes new contract for considering bid protest

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Award Term ExtensionsOn July 12, 2016, in Coast Professional, Inc. et. al v. United States, No. 2015-5077 (Fed. Cir. July 12, 2016), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a Court of Federal Claims (“CoFC”) decision, finding that the CoFC erred in ruling that it did not have bid protest jurisdiction over the award of task orders characterized as “award-term extensions.”

The Federal Circuit’s decision provides clarity on the scope of Tucker Act’s bid protest jurisdiction, and provides a strong defense against Government arguments that attempt to limit that jurisdiction going forward.

The dispute in Coast Professional focused on “award term extensions” to task orders issued through the Federal Supply Schedule (“FSS”).

In 2008, the Department of Education (“DOE”) issued a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for services related to the collection of defaulted student loans. The RFQ stated that the Task Order would include a base term ending March 31, 2011, with additional option periods up to 24 months.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.insidegovernmentcontracts.com/2016/07/federal-circuit-confirms-that-a-task-order-award-term-extension-constitutes-a-new-contract-for-purposes-of-bid-protest-jurisdiction/

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