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Federal, state and local governments offer businesses the opportunity to sell billions of dollars worth of products and services. Many government agencies require that some percentage of the procurements be set aside for small businesses.  

4Ci is always looking for opportunities to establish business relationship with corporations, both as Prime and Subcontractor.

SBA 8(a) STARS II Overview

The General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Integrated Technology Services (ITS), Small Business (SB) Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) Center (the “Center”) is pleased to announce the request for proposals (RFP) for the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (STARS) II GWAC. “8(a) STARS II”, a/k/a “STARS II.” By law, a GWAC is an information technology (IT) contract and STARS II concentrates on IT services and IT services-based solutions. The STARS II GWAC is expected to build upon the achievements of its predecessor, 8(a) STARS (www.gsa.gov/8astars), and will incorporate best practices and lessons learned from the synergistic partnership with stakeholders.

The RFP is set-aside exclusively for qualifying certified 8(a) small business concerns as the prime contractors per Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 19.8, and the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) rules for the 8(a) Business Development Program (www.sba.gov). The Center encourages interested parties to be familiar with the SBA 8(a) program’s regulatory framework. Questions regarding the 8(a) program should be directed to the SBA.

STARS II will promote the use of performance-based contracting and will accommodate task orders with the following terms: fixed-price (FP) (all in FAR 16.2), time-and-materials (T&M) (per FAR 16.6), and labor-hour (LH) (per FAR 16.6). 8(a) STARS II will also allow requiring activities to choose among the incentive features found in FAR 16.4 that are tied to FP, T&M and LH terms. The contract term includes a five-year base period with one five-year option.

There are no projects assigned for STARS II. It is being established as an option for agencies to embrace in meeting their 8(a) and small business procurement preference goals. Agencies will make their own decisions on the benefits of using this GWAC for IT requirements. Warranted Contracting Officers wanting to use STARS II directly may do so. They are first required to complete delegation of procurement authority (DPA) training to effectively use the vehicle, whereupon they will be eligible for a DPA.

The STARS II scope consists of two constellations/levels, each comprised of four independent Functional Areas (FAs). The levels are differentiated by certain qualification requirements identified in the RFP. Although the single North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) code most closely tied to the entire GWAC is 541512, each FA is assigned its own NAICS code (see the RFP) having an associated size standard.

The STARS II contract ceiling value is $10 billion (all references to dollars or “$” are in U.S. currency), to be drawn down commensurate with the value of orders placed, with no fixed allocation to either constellation or FA or to any individual contract.

 

Recent Success

2009: 4Ci was selected as National Tier 1 Vendor by Deloitte's Federal practice to provide IT Staff Augmenation Services.

 

2009: 4Ci establishes Teaming Agreement with Deloitte Federal Practice to provide software development & help desk support services for US Departments of Health & Human Services.

 

 

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