Building Maintenance and Operations IDIQ Contract

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF BMO
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is embarking on a Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI) for Building Maintenance and Operations set aside for Small Business (herein BMO SB) services. FSSI, chartered under the purview of the Federal Government’s Chief Acquisition Officers Council (CAOC), is governed by the Category Management Leadership Council (CMLC, formally known as Strategic Sourcing Leadership Council, SSLC). The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) oversees the CMLC. Many agencies actively participate in FSSI through the Community of Practice (COP) and through Commodity Councils that provide user input to various FSSI procurement activities.

At its core, the FSSI program strives to implement a commodity management approach to federal procurement. BMO SB is one of several commodity groups for which FSSI is seeking a more effective government-wide acquisition approach.

A strategic sourcing effort typically involves the following activities:

• Analyze spend data
• Analyze the market
• Develop a strategy
• Seek and negotiate with suppliers
• Select and award to successful suppliers
• Implement strategy
• Monitor performance

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), continuing the initiative begun by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) in 2005 through its Chief Acquisition Officer Council (CAOC) to provide for strategic sourcing on a government-wide basis, seeks to establish a small business set aside Multiple-Award IDIQ for services relating to Building Maintenance and Operations (BMO SB). BMO SB services were identified as a high-spend area in a U.S. Government Accountability Office report on strategic sourcing, dated April 2013. BMO SB is designed to address agencies’ need for a comprehensive range of service requirements that covers services relating to building maintenance with the flexibility for various contract types and pricing at the task order level.