Study: Most SeaPort-e contractors get only $2,501

The vast majority of the nearly 1,800 companies on the Navy’s SeaPort-e multiple-award contract have received only the $2,501 guaranteed minimum return, according to a new study by OST Global Solutions research firm.

SeaPort-e has generated more than $17 billion in task orders since 2012. But 89% of the companies awarded Seaport-e contracts are missing out.

Brian Friel, research and analytics director for OST, wrote in a recent blog that the problem appears to be in timing. When requests for proposals for task orders valued between $1 million and $50 million appear on the SeaPort-e portal, companies may have just 11 to 24 working days to prepare and submit an offer, Friel wrote.

He advised getting an early start before the RFP is issued.

More information: OST research http://goo.gl/m0b5K9

CIO-SP3 on-ramp

A major opportunity is coming for additional small businesses to be awarded positions on the lucrative CIO-SP3 IT support governmentwide acquisition vehicle.

The current CIO-SP3 contract awarded $624 million in fiscal 2015 to 94 small businesses, according to an analysis by Aronson LLC. At least a third of those companies likely are no longer small.

More information: http://goo.gl/Z2yl2y

PSC names new CEO

The Professional Services Council named David J. Berteau, assistant secretary of defense for logistics and materiel readiness, as its new chief executive officer, replacing Stan Soloway.

Berteau worked in senior defense positions from 1981 to 1993. He was confirmed as assistant secretary in December 2014.

Is the Commerce Dept.’s WOSB report outdated?

The Commerce Department recently issued a report on the Small Business Administration’s program for women-owned small businesses (WOSBs)--but the findings already may be outdated.

The report states that the government’s 5% goal for WOSB contracting has never been met, based on data collected through fiscal 2014.

However, the White House’s preliminary data indicates, and SBA officials recently have stated, that the government appears to have met the WOSB 5% goal for fiscal 2015.

More information: Report https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/wosb_study_report.pdf

Supreme Court divided in small biz case

Rung names 11 category managers

DOD services contracts cut

Column: Opportunities in disaster and emergency response

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