GSA finalizes a pair of Polaris award pools
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Nick Wakeman
Six apparent winners were dropped from the HUBZone and service-disabled/veteran-owned pools after challenges, adding 53 new companies on the 10-year IT vehicle.
The General Services Administration has finalized awards for two pools of small businesses that qualified for positions on the Polaris government-wide IT vehicle.
Back in August, GSA announced the “apparently successful” winners of the HUBZone and service-disabled/veteran-owned small business pools.
Four companies that were apparent winners of the SDVOSB pool did not make the final cut. They apparently were challenged on whether they qualified to be in the pool. These companies are DecisionPoint-Agile Defense Joint Venture, Mindven LLC Paragon-Vertex Joint Venture and Sugarloaf Technologies.
Two other companies that were named apparent winners in the HUBZone pool also failed to make that final list – Arch Systems LLC and Intellect Solutions LLC.
This leaves 23 companies in the SDVOSB pool and 30 in the HUBZone pool.
Follow these links to see both of the final lists:
Click here for the SDVOSB pool and here for the HUBZone pool.
As GSA has said before, it is not eliminating companies from the competition. These winners are for phase one and other bidders are still eligible for awards in future phases of Polaris.
For the SDVOSB pool, GSA said it received 251 proposals. The agency received 180 proposals for the HUBZone pool.
Final awards for woman-owned and regular small business pools are pending.
GSA set up Polaris as a 10-year vehicle for agencies to acquire emerging technologies and IT solutions in areas such as artificial intelligence, automation, immersive technology, distributed ledger technology, and edge computing.