“With the creation of Polaris, our next small business GWAC, we’ll build on the success of these programs and become the first GSA GWAC to feature multiple socioeconomic groups through a single offering…”
“Through Polaris, we will:
- Establish a pre-qualified industrial base that government agencies can tap into with confidence and ease
- Bring multiple socioeconomic categories onto one vehicle to provide agencies with convenient access to small disadvantaged IT service providers
- Enable agencies to acquire state-of-the-art IT services in a compliant and cost-effective manner…”
“Key Polaris features that we’re aiming for:
- Periodic refreshment of the industrial base through on-ramps
- Access to emerging technologies
- No-price awards with pricing negotiated at the task order level — to promote competition.
- Inclusion of a technical refresh clause that can be triggered as needed to adapt to customer needs.
- Support for IT modernization and emerging technologies capabilities by offering the latest in cloud offerings from storage services to quantum computing services
- Catalog of service offerings
- A maximum 10-year ordering period
- No contract ceiling
- Leverage the cloud business model for service offerings…” Read the full blog post here.
Source: Bringing GSA’s Polaris GWAC to Life – By Laura Stanton, September 22, 2021. GSA Blog Great Government through Technology.
