Government Contracting Blog

Good news for Professional Services contractors--GSA is looking to add new domains to their OASIS+ contracting vehicle supporting their Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories (PSHC). On June 17, 2025, GSA released a Request for Information (RFI) to open Phase II of the vehicle and develop evaluation criteria for five new domains. OASIS+ provides government buyers with non-IT services and includes small business set-asides. Since the RFI responses are due soon on July 8, let's review what OASIS+ is and how your business may be able to benefit from this vehicle.

Q4 of the federal government Fiscal Year is like Christmas Eve at a mall—a spending spree full of exciting opportunities for your company and all the chaos that comes with it. While this is the most important time of year for taking advantage of government business, it can come with its own set of challenges. During Q4, government agencies are rushing to spend the remainder of their budget and releasing scores of solicitations. This means while contractors will have a great opportunity to win business during this time, they often face increased competition, tight deadlines, lack of resources, and stringent compliance requirements.

The American federal government isn’t the only procurement landscape shifting its attention to denfence spending. The European Union (EU) is undergoing a significant transformation, with a stronger focus on military readiness. This includes organizations like the North American Treaty Organization (NATO), which is also leaning more into defence. As a result, we can expect to see emerging opportunities for both U.S. and EU contractors. In this blog, we’ll cover recent European/NATO defence initiatives so you can stay ahead of these future opportunities.

If you’re in the federal contracting world, you probably have some familiarity with small business set-asides and the various socioeconomic types of small businesses that the government is concerned with. Small business set-asides influence every type of federal acquisition strategy, including purchases made off of GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), and other government-wide acquisition contracts.

Entering the federal marketplace can be daunting. Especially if you are a small business with little to no resources on how to cut through the bureaucratic red tape and successfully secure a spot on a contract vehicle. What many businesses don’t know is you can approach your path to market in different ways. The Department of Defense (DoD) has a few innovation programs that are designed to help companies with innovative solutions gain access to critical funding and become visible to government buyers. These programs allow for technology development acceleration, innovative research and development, and give small businesses the opportunity to share their cutting-edge solutions with less barriers to market.

To busy government contractors, market research may seem like a trivial activity that can be pushed toward the bottom of their to-do list. Since it won't directly end in a contract award, it's not worth prioritizing, right? Wrong. Market research (often in the form of Requests for Information, or RFIs) is just as essential as Requests for Proposals (RFPs). Market research is generally used to build an RFP, so it's actually important to get your foot in the door early.