The General Services Administration has awarded 102 vendors positions on the small business pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, for IT products and services.
GSA released the list of Polaris GWAC Small Business Pool winners in a statement posted Monday on SAM. gov.
“With this award, agencies can now achieve their socioeconomic goals and meet strict federal IT security and compliance requirements, while working with some of the most productive and artistic small IT businesses,” said Laura Stanton, deputy commissioner of the GSA. IT Category Office Acquisition Service said in a statement released Monday.
“I look forward to all the inventions that result from the Polaris GWAC and the continued good fortune of the award-winning small businesses,” Stanton added.
Polaris GWAC seeks to provide federal agencies with a platform to source synthetic intelligence, automation, immersive generation, distributed ledger generation, edge computing, and other emerging technologies and IT from small businesses that decided to meet their generation requirements.
The contract provides supplies for 4 reserved groups: small businesses; Women-Owned Small Businesses, or WOSBs; Historically Underutilized Business Zone, or HUBZone; and Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses, or SDVOSB.
With Polaris, GSA intends to expand the industry partner base, simplify proposal submission requirements, provide greater access to emerging technologies and visitor experience.
In September 2022, GSA will put out to tender the HUBZone and SDVOSB contract vehicle groups.
The firm plans to announce the winners of the contract groups WOSB, HUBZone and SDVOSB later in fiscal 2025 on Monday.
In March 2022, GSA initially released the RFPs for small business and WOSB pools but decided to pause the solicitations to allow for a review following receipt of feedback regarding the evaluation of joint ventures under the contract.
Three months later, an application for the Polaris Small Business Pool was reissued after GSA incorporated changes to the filing requirements for applicable experience in connection with joint ventures and mentor-protégé agreements.
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