GSA Approved SINs for Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)
541330ENG, ENGINEERING SERVICES
Services include: applying physical laws and principles of engineering in the design, development, and utilization of machines, materials, instruments, processes, and systems.
Services may involve any of the following activities: provision of advice, concept development, requirements analysis, preparation of feasibility studies, preparation of preliminary and final plans and designs, provision of technical services during the construction or installation phase, inspection and evaluation of engineering projects, and related services.
NOTE: Services under this SIN cannot include architect-engineer services as defined in the Brooks Act and FAR Part 2, or construction services as defined in FAR Parts 2 and 36.
541420, ENGINEERING SYSTEM DESIGN AND INTEGRATION SERVICES
Services include creating and developing designs and specifications that optimize the use, value, and appearance of their products. These services can include determination of the materials, construction, mechanisms, shape, color, and surface finishes of the product, taking into consideration human characteristics and needs, safety, market appeal, and efficiency in production, distribution, use, and maintenance.
Associated tasks include, but are not limited to computer-aided design, e.g. CADD, risk reduction strategies and recommendations to mitigate identified risk conditions, fire modeling, performance-based design reviews, high level detailed specification and scope preparation, configuration, management and document control, fabrication, assembly and simulation, modeling, training, consulting, analysis of single or multi spacecraft missions and mission design analysis.
NOTE: Services under this NAICs cannot include architect-engineer services as defined in the Brooks Act and FAR Part 2 or construction services as defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 36 and Part 2.
541715, ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND STRATEGIC PLANNING
Services include conducting research and experimental development (except nanotechnology and biotechnology research and experimental development) in the physical, engineering and life sciences such as; such as agriculture, electronics, environmental, biology, botany, computers, chemistry, food, fisheries, forests, geology, health, mathematics, medicine, oceanography, pharmacy, physics, veterinary and other allied subjects.
Typical tasks include, but are not limited to, analysis of mission, program goals and objectives, program evaluations, analysis of program effectiveness, requirements analysis, organizational performance assessment, special studies and analysis, training, and consulting; requirements analysis, cost/cost performance trade-off analysis, feasibility analysis, developing and completing fire safety evaluation worksheets as they relate to professional engineering services; operation and maintenance, evaluation of inspection, testing, and maintenance program for fire protection and life safety systems, program/project management, technology transfer/insertion, training and consulting.
NOTE: Services under this NAICs cannot include architect-engineer services as defined in the Brooks Act and FAR Part 2 or construction services as defined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 36 and Part 2.
541380, TESTING LABORATORY SERVICES
Includes testing laboratory services and veterinary, natural, and life sciences; testing services and laboratories; and other professional, scientific, and technical consulting services.
Testing and services include, but are not limited to: physical, chemical, analytical, or other testing services; quality assurance; fire safety inspections; training; safety audits; relying upon experimental, empirical, quantifiable data, relying on the scientific method, and professional services, tasks, and labor categories in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences, atmospheric science, oceanography, materials sciences, mathematics, geology, astronomy, veterinary medicine, statistics, systems science, etc., (excludes social and behavioral sciences). Examples of labor categories include, but are not limited to, Scientific Researchers, Biologists, Physicists, Mathematicians, Statisticians, Research Engineers, Meteorologists, Lab Technicians, Veterinarians and Veterinary Services, Chemists, Biochemical Engineers, Research Nurses.
ORDER LEVEL MATERIALS (OLMs)
Supplies and/or services acquired in direct support of an individual task or delivery order placed against a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract or FSS blanket purchase agreement (BPA). OLMs are not defined, priced, or awarded at the FSS contract level. They are unknown before a task or delivery order is placed against the FSS contract or FSS BPA. OLMs are only authorized for inclusion at the order level under a Time-and-Materials (T&M) or Labor-Hour (LH) Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) and are subject to a Not To Exceed (NTE) ceiling price.
OLMs include direct materials, subcontracts for supplies and incidental services for which there is not a labor category specified in the FSS contract, other direct costs (separate from those under ODC SINs), and indirect costs. OLMs are purchased under the authority of the FSS Program and are not “open market items.”
Order-Level Materials SIN is only authorized for use under T&M and LH order CLINs. The Order-Level Materials SIN is only authorized for use in direct support of another awarded SIN.
How to Buy
GSA schedules offer federal agencies a streamlined and simplified procurement process. Procurement paperwork is minimized and the procurement process timeline is short. All federal agencies and their approved contractors may use GSA schedules to procure services.
Each GSA schedule has been competitively awarded. It is a contract with the US Government for broad categories of services. Services are catalogued at fixed labor rates. The established hourly rates on GSA schedules have already been determined to be “fair and reasonable” by the Government.
There is no need to advertise in the Commerce Business Daily or to coordinate with anyone outside your own agency. Each agency has contract procedures to follow when using the GSA streamlined and simplified procurement process; see FAR 8.4 for details.
Here is an overview of the steps to procure services via a GSA Schedule:
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- You develop a simplified package of documents regarding a desired service (such as Statement of Work, schedule, and evaluation criteria).
- You provide the package of documents and funding requirements to your internal Contracts Office.
- Your Contracts Office develops and issues an RFP/RFQ to prospective offer(s).
- Offer(s) develop their proposal(s)/quote(s).
- The Contracting Officer evaluates offer(s) and makes an award.
- The Contracting Officer issues a task order.
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