The Army is moving hundreds of millions of dollars to the OASIS professional services governmentwide contract.

The Army and the General Services Administration signed a memorandum of understanding Monday with new incentives for the service to use OASIS.

 

The service is committing to spend $500 million a year on the OASIS professional services contract across five main areas — program management, consulting, science, financial services and logistics.

Harry Hallock, the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for procurement, said the goal is to minimize duplicative contracting efforts where the risk is low, while also increasing efficiencies.

 

But the real reason for committing so much money through OASIS is money.

 

Hallock said the Army will pay a fee of 0.1 percent instead of what other agencies pay to use OASIS, 0.75 percent, meaning the service will get a significant discount. The Army sends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to GSA in exchange for using their assortment of contracts. A reduced fee of 0.65 percent means the Army can use that money for mission-critical necessities.

 

"The first task orders have already come through. We already are using OASIS," Hallock said during a press briefing on the MOU at GSA headquarters in Washington. "What's nice about the arrangement we agreed upon is going back to Jan. 1, I think, those that already are done prior to the signing of the agreement as of Jan. 1 fall under the OASIS requirements. We are there. We're doing it. We're using it." Read Full Article.