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DIGITALSPEC, LLC. Awarded General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) IT-70 Contract

Posted on: Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 00:00 CDT

DIGITALSPEC has been awarded the General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 70 General Purpose Commercial Information Technology (IT) Equipment, Software and Services

Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 20, 2011

DIGITALSPEC, LLC. http://www.digitalspec.net , announces the award of a five-year Federal Supply IT Schedule 70 Contract by the GSA. Recently SBA 8(a) certified, DIGITALSPEC is a rapidly growing innovative management and IT consulting firm. DIGITALSPEC’s GSA ITS Schedule Contract Number GS-35F-0435X enables the company to offer federal government clients a long-term, streamlined vehicle to procure DIGITALSPEC’s technical and management consulting services. The DIGITALSPEC team provides information technology professional support services including program management, cloud computing, enterprise architecture, capital planning and investment control (CPIC), solution development and integration, infrastructure services, information assurance/audits and security.

Dr. Charles A. Dadoo, President and CEO of DIGITALSPEC said “We look forward to new growth opportunities to continue to support and transform US Federal Agencies. The GSA IT-70 Contract is a very exciting opportunity for the company. It enables us to offer our core IT capabilities, to a larger federal community and with more procurement flexibility. We look forward to working with our clientele to help them achieve optimal performance and maximize results. The GSA schedule, in addition to our 8(a) status, offers yet another option for our clients to procure our dynamic service offerings.”

The General Services Administration (GSA) is the premier federal acquisition and procurement agency offering equipment, supplies, telecommunications, and integrated information technology solutions to federal customers. The GSA Schedule Contract provides a dynamic vehicle for winning business and increasing revenue. GSA administers these GSA Schedules but they are available to all agencies as well as State and Local Governments. As a catalyst for nearly $66 billion in federal spending, the GSA Schedules program accounts for more than one-fourth of the government's total procurement dollars. Approximately 12,000 GSA employees provide valuable support to other federal agencies and the general public.

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Essentially, GAO reprimanded the agency for failing to do more in its price evaluation than just consider whether the proposed total labor hours were sufficient to perform the Performance Work Statement tasks.  Specifically, GAO reminded DLA that FAR 8.405-2(d), (e) requires an agency to consider the level of effort and the mix of labor proposed to perform the task being ordered, determine that the total price is reasonable, and document the agency’s price reasonableness determination.  Here, because DLA failed to comply with the FAR, GAO recommended that the agency perform a new evaluation, reopening negotiations with the vendors (if necessary) and make a new selection decision.

GAO also sustained the protest based on DLA’s failure to assess the vendor’s differing strengths or otherwise explain why the quotations were technically equal when the RFQ specified the issuance of a task order based on a best value basis.  Specifically, GAO explained that where a solicitation anticipates the use of a best value evaluation plan, “evaluations of quotations is not limited to determining whether a quotation is merely technically acceptable; rather, quotations should be further differentiated to distinguish their relative quality under each stated evaluation factor by considering the degree to which technically acceptable quotations exceed the stated minimum requirements or will better satisfy the agency’s needs.