New OASIS+ Awardees Can Target Billions on Expiring Task Orders

The recent addition of nearly 700 more awardees to a major governmentwide contract more than triples the number of small vendors on what has been the flagship vehicle for complex engineering and professional services for the last decade.

But the increasing size and complexity of these mega-sized vehicles, along with their associated compliance and security requirements, contributes to vendor stratification such that boosting the number of small business awardees may not yield much more contractor diversity.

Agencies have increasingly relied on consolidated, multiple-award contracts like the General Services Administration’s new OASIS+ contract as a way of saving money by centralizing ...