Oasis Announcements & Awards Made to Bidders Who Did Not Even Bid 

Congratulations to all the OasisPlus small business awardees.  GSA is requesting that all apparent awardees ensure their SAM registrations are accurate and complete before contracts will be issued.  Formal contract awards are anticipated by GSA to be made as early as August 12, 2024.  Centre Law received one of the award notifications.  Not only do we know how to represent federal government contractors, we also know how to bid and win federal contracts.  One of our core capabilities is providing acquisition training to the federal government.  A major training IDIQ was merged into Oasis so now there are both services and training under one IDIQ.   

Then there is the story of another proposal we submitted to an unnamed federal agency for legal services.  The agency had three functional areas listed, administrative, project management and legal services.  Centre bid on the legal services area.  We were rated excellent in technical, but our prices were deemed too high.  I checked out the three awardees and discovered that none of them had any contracts for legal services nor did they have the litigation SIN on their  GSA Schedule.  Agency protest (and gnashing of teeth) followed.  Centre’s protest  was denied by the agency but surprisingly the agency admitted that two of the awardees for legal services did not even bid on that functional area.  The third awardee could not map attorneys and paralegals to any of their labor categories on their GSA Schedule. I gave the agency one more chance, emailing them I was going to file a bid protest at GAO and I would definitely win.  Two days after filing the protest the agency decided to take corrective action.  Never in my over 25 years of experience in practicing government contract law have I ever seen awards made to contractors that did not even bid.  Maybe they need to take our acquisition training.  

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