Get an End on Open Ratings Report in The MAS Program

In October 2019, GSA delivered Phase I of the since a long time ago expected MAS Consolidation, which joined the 24 separate inheritance Schedules into one, overall Schedule. Generally speaking, the progress to the new Consolidated Schedule Solicitation has been surprisingly smooth, even notwithstanding strategic difficulties like the decommissioning of FedBizOpps, which required moving the entirety of the Solicitation records to their new home on beta.SAM.gov.

With any significant change, however, a few difficulties are everything except inescapable. On December 18, GSA's MAS Blog tended to one such issue: how offerors will actually want to show effective Past Performance for their GSA Schedule recommendations, given the end of Open Ratings Reports.

Under the heritage sales, offerors were needed to exhibit effective past execution by buying an Open Ratings Report. The report summed up study information taken from the offeror's clients and showed the rundown in an effectively interpretable realistic organization.

Under the new ombined Schedule requesting, the report is only one of three admissible approaches to show past execution: CPARs, Open Ratings Reports, or a Past Performance Narrative.

As of December 6, notwithstanding, ORI has quit tolerating orders for new Open Ratings Reports. How this affects the MAS program is that:

Offerors who have in any event three CPARs that meet Solicitation necessities should utilize those to exhibit Past Performance.

Offerors who don't have at any rate three CPARs, however who bought an Open Ratings Report preceding their end may utilize it, as long as it is dated inside one year of the date of offer.

For offerors who don't have at any rate three CPARs and who don't have an Open Ratings Report, a Past Performance Narrative is required. This account gives brief undertaking depictions and resources, from whom GSA will demand Past Performance Questionnaires.

In future Refreshes of the Solicitation, when enough time has passed that all current reports fall outside the year legitimacy period, the choice for Open Ratings Reports will apparently be taken out and out.