GSA OASIS

Services under OASIS span 28 NAICS codes and six exceptions. These 34 codes/exceptions are allocated among seven NAICS code pools. All codes/exceptions in a pool share a common SB size standard. Government entities can solicit task order proposals from contractors holding awards in the pool with the NAICS code that matches the entity’s requirement.

The labor categories (LCAT) are aligned with occupations, as outlined in OMB’s Standard Occupational Classification system. OASIS offers more meaningful proposed rate comparisons at the task order level—apples to apples—and 104 OASIS LCATs (individual and groups and priced at the master contract level) cover 127 OMB Standard Occupational Classification occupations and over 1,000 typical industry job titles. The remainder of the 840 Standard Occupational Classification occupations can be added and priced at the task order level as ancillary labor.

OASIS provides an automated pricing tool that:

• Can be used in building realistic estimates for the labor portion of requirements.
• Is quick and easy to use for creating the task order Independent Government Cost Estimate.
• Incorporates statistics for each Standard Occupational Classification system occupation based on Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys as direct rates and OASIS awardee indirect rates and prices.
• Can index pricing for up to 640 precise geographic locations.

OASIS facilitates agency management of its SB program and goals through awards in every SB category, including socioeconomics and the provision of business intelligence via dashboards on SB performance. Through the use of OASIS, client entities receive SB credit, and it supports competition, even in socioeconomic categories. Entities can reserve task orders for exclusive competition among SB categories, including:

• 8(a) business development participants.
• Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) SB concerns.
• Service-disabled veteran-owned SB (SDVOSB) concerns.
• Economically disadvantaged women-owned SB concerns.
• Women-owned SB concerns eligible under the Women-Owned SB Program.

Through OASIS, agencies can plan socioeconomic set-asides to meet their goals and support 8(a), HUBZone, and SDVOSB direct awards.

OASIS has no program ceiling, has a five-year base and one five-year option, and provides for long-term planning for complex program requirements. In 2023, GSA issued a modification to exercise Kearney’s six-month option, extending the vehicle’s ultimate end date through March 1, 2025.

OASIS offers an innovative tiered access fee, ranging from 0.1 percent to 0.75 percent based on obligation level.

Financial Management Services include the planning, directing, monitoring, organizing, and controlling of the monetary resources of an organization.

Service areas under the Financial Management Services discipline include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Budget Analysis and Tracking
• Business Information Services
• Cost Estimating and Analysis Support
• Cost Performance Risk Assessments
• Disbursement and Reconciliation Support
• Financial and Financial Risk Analysis
• Financial Management, Accounting, and Auditing Services
• Impact Statement Development
• Program Management for Financial Services
• Program Objective Memorandum Creation and Documentation
• Oversight and Fraud Detection
• Safeguarding Personal Data
• Loan Management
• Grant Management
• Economic Analysis
• Return on Investment Analysis
• Lifecyle Cost Determination
• Total Ownership Cost Determination
• Affordability Analysis
• Analysis of Cost Alternatives
• Should-Cost Determinations

Management Consulting Services include all services related to the practice of helping organizations improve their performance, primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement.

Service areas under the Management Consulting Services discipline include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Business Process Reengineering
• Business Case Development Support
• Change Management
• Concept Development and Requirements Analysis
• Cost/Schedule/Performance Improvement
• Information Analytics
• Knowledge Management
• Relations and Coordination with Law and Policy-Making Entities
• Social Media Consulting
• Tactical and Readiness Planning
• Technical Advisory Services
• Training and Facilitation
• Strategic Planning
• Strategic Forecasting
• Long-Range Planning, Futures, and Forecasting
• Strategy Development

Program Management Services include all services related to leading, facilitating, and ensuring the strategic planning, implementation, coordination, integration, and evaluation of programmatic activities and administrative systems.

Service areas under the Program Management Services discipline include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Acquisition Support
• Business Intelligence Support
• Cost/Schedule/Performance Analysis
• Cost Estimation and Analysis
• Cost/Performance Trade-Off Analysis and Studies
• Earned Value Management Analysis
• E-Business Support
• Information Analytics
• Investigative Services
• Program Management
• Integrated Program Management
• Program Documentation
• Project Management
• Regulatory Compliance
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation
• Integration of Support Systems
• Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Processes
• Capabilities Integration and Development
• Manpower Estimating
• Stakeholder Requirements Analysis
• Decision Analysis
• Technical Planning
• Technical Assessment
• Requirements Management
• Risk Management
• Configuration Management
• Technical Data Management
• Interface Management
• Intelligence Analysis
• Threat Analysis
• Knowledge-Based Acquisition
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Counterintelligence Support
• Horizontal Protection

Kearney also has the reach-back capacity to support scientific, engineering, and logistics support services as defined below.

Scientific Services include all services that are primarily involved in the application of comprehensive scientific and professional knowledge in planning, conducting, evaluating, and managing fundamental research, knowledge enhancement, and/or technology development and innovation.

Engineering Services include any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge in consulting, investigating, evaluating, planning and designing, and engineering principles. Engineering Services covered by the Brooks Architect-Engineers Act of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 1102) are not covered in the primary scope of OASIS.

Logistics Services include the management of the flow of resources, not only goods, between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of organizations. Logistics services involve the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, packaging, security, and any other function necessary to the flow of resources.

Information Technology (IT), by legal definition, means any equipment, or interconnected system(s) or subsystem(s) of equipment, that is used for the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by the entity. For purposes of this definition, equipment is used by an entity if the equipment is used by the entity directly or is used by a contractor under a contract with the entity that requires its use, or to a significant extent, its use in the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product.

IT is considered an ancillary support service or product on OASIS task orders and may be performed only when the service or product is integral and necessary to complete a total integrated solution under a professional service-based requirement within the scope of OASIS.

“Non-IT” includes any service or equipment that is acquired by a contractor incidental to a contract or contains imbedded IT that is used as an integral part of the service or product, but the principal function of which is not the acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information. (For example, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning [HVAC] equipment, such as thermostats or temperature control devices, and medical equipment where IT is integral to its operation, is non-IT).

Non-IT also includes any equipment or services related to a National Security System. The term “National Security System” means a telecommunications or information system operated by the federal government, the function, operation, or use of which involves intelligence activities, cryptologic activities related to national security, command and control of military forces, equipment that is an integral part of a weapon or weapons system or is critical to the direct fulfillment of military or intelligence missions, not including a system to be used for routine administrative and business applications (including payroll, finance, logistics, and personnel management applications).

Non-IT may comprise imbedded IT components, including software, IT hardware, and other items and services traditionally considered IT on IT requirements.

Non-IT professional services are not considered ancillary support services. Non-IT professional services are considered to be within the primary scope of OASIS.

Ancillary support services are defined as services not within the scope of OASIS that are integral and necessary to complete a total integrated solution under a professional service-based requirement within the scope of OASIS.

Ancillary support services may include, but are not limited to, other professional and/or non-professional services, commercial and/or non-commercial items, IT services and/or components, administrative support, data entry, and subject matter expertise.

The Ordering Contracting Officer may allow, and the contractor may propose, a labor category(s) at the task order level not identified in Section J.1., provided that the contractor complies with all applicable contract clauses and labor laws, including the Service Contract Act of 1965 or the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, if applicable.

When providing ancillary support for IT services and/or components, the contractor shall promote IT initiatives and best practices that support federal government operational requirements for standardized technology and application service components. This shall facilitate integration requirements for broad federal IT and E-Gov initiatives, as well as promote the sharing, consolidation, and reuse of business processes and systems across the federal government. The contractor shall promote the use of open-source solutions and open technology development where practicable to enable this reuse.