GSA MULTIPLE AWARD SCHEDULE SOLICITATION FOR TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL STAFFING SERVICES (TAPS): The General Products Acquisition Center, Fort Worth, TX, is issuing a refreshed solicitation effective 4/24/08 electronically only. Interested parties may access the solicitation at http://www.fedbizopps.gov. Search using Solicitation Number 7FCM-N6-03-0736-B (include the dashes). Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 4.12 requires prospective contractors to complete electronic annual representations and certifications at http://orca.bpn.gov, in conjunction with required registration in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database. Prospective contractors are not eligible for an award, if their ORCA information is not current. Additionally, prospective contractors shall update the representations and certifications submitted to the Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) as necessary, but at least annually, to ensure they are kept current, accurate, and complete. This is a standing solicitation with no closing date for receipt of offers. This solicitation will remain in effect until it is replaced by a refreshed solicitation. The Federal Supply Schedule period is continuous, and will contain contracts with periods that commence on the date of award (DOA) and expire five years (exclusive of any options) from the DOA unless further extended pursuant to any option to extend the term of the contract, or cancelled sooner. This solicitation contains an option clause, Option to Extend the Term of the Contract (Evergreen), which allows the Government to extend the contract three additional five-year periods, not to exceed a total of twenty years. All contracts will be indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contracts with a $2500 guaranteed minimum for the contract period. All contracts to be awarded include Industrial Funding provisions. This is 100% set aside for Small Businesses. We actively solicit offers from 8(a) firms for the products/services found under this MAS solicitation.
Base Contract Period: July 14, 2008 through July 13, 2013.

Special Notice

The Cover Page section includes provision SCP-FSS-002 SPECIFIC PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS (MAR 2008), which requires (1) that offerors provide three years of financial statements with their offers and (2) that offerors must have provided the type of professional service covered by the solicitation for a minimum of three years. Both of these requirements are now changed to two years.

The changed language is in section (a) paragraph (11) and section (b) paragraph (1) of SCP-FSS-002.

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