OASIS+ Business Administration Readiness
If you’re evaluating OASIS+ Business Administration Readiness, start with three fundamentals:
• Scope fit: your projects match Business Administration services work.
• NAICS mapping: your strongest projects map cleanly to listed auto-relevant NAICS codes.
• Defensible score: your documentation supports reviewer-ready scoring claims.
OASIS+ Business Administration Readiness means you can support a Business Administration domain submission with domain-aligned projects, eligible NAICS alignment, and substantiated scoring evidence.
It’s confirming domain scope fit, listed NAICS alignment, and a defensible score posture before you commit major pursuit resources.
Need the fundamentals first? See our OASIS+ overview and GSA’s OASIS+ program page.
- General administrative and secretarial support
- Data entry, processing, and management
- Document management and secure disposition services
- Document preparation services
- Meeting, scheduling, and travel coordination services
- Survey facilitation and data collection support
- Business information research and reporting support
- Multilingual translation and interpretation services
More scope examples
- Library operations and information services
- Linguist talent acquisition
- Temporary help / administrative staffing support
- Business service centers and back-office support
- Max score: 50 (SB and UNR)
- Minimum qualification score: 36 (SB), 42 (UNR)
- Main score factors: Qualifying Projects (QPs), Federal Experience Projects (FEPs), Systems/Clearances/Certifications
QPs drive most of the points in this domain. Score risk rises quickly when your 5 QPs are borderline on relevance, annual value, or substantiation.
Qualifying Projects (QPs)
- Up to 5 QPs; federal prime, federal subcontract, or commercial contracts may be used.
- QPs must be FAR Part 37 services (not supplies).
- OTAs are allowed; grants/cooperative agreements are not acceptable.
- Minimum annual value: $500K (SB) / $1M (UNR), plus date and performance-window rules.
- Past performance must be above satisfactory (average across subfactors).
How annual value and timing are assessed
- Ongoing: (total expected value ÷ expected duration in days) × 366.
- Completed: (total obligated value ÷ actual duration in days) × 366.
- Ongoing projects must have at least 6 months completed performance; completed projects must be within 5 years of the full RFP issue date.
Federal Experience Projects (FEPs)
- MA-IDIQ/BPA participation uses task orders under multiple-award IDIQs/BPAs (prime only), with annual value over $250K and time-window rules.
- You can earn credit for supporting 3+ distinct federal agencies (prime federal services contracts, funded work, annual value over $250K, time-window rules).
NAICS Codes And Size Standards
- 541110 – Offices of Lawyers (Size standard: $15.5M)
- 541199 – All Other Legal Services (Size standard: $20.5M)
- 541611 – Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (Size standard: $24.5M)
- 541930 – Translation and Interpretation Services (Size standard: $22.5M)
- 561110 – Office Administrative Services (Size standard: $12.5M)
- 561320 – Temporary Help Services (Size standard: $34M)
- 561410 – Document Preparation Services (Size standard: $19M)
- 561439 – Other Business Service Centers (including Copy Shops) (Size standard: $26.5M)
- 561499 – All Other Business Support Services (Size standard: $21.5M)
- 561611 – Investigation and Personal Background Check Services (or Investigation Services) (Size standard: $25M)
- Read the full RFP and all Q&As carefully and repeatedly.
- Create a reliable compliance checklist and run multiple reviews.
- Be a devil’s advocate and verify every required item in the applicable sections.
- Target a cushion: aim for 3–5 points above the minimum threshold (36 SB / 42 UNR).
- Use a third party to review scoring and proposal documents for a second set of eyes.
- Cost/price information is mandatory for submission.
- Pricing is completed in J.P-9 for 20 LCATs (SME level) for a total period of 16 years (enter year 1).
- Ceiling rates include direct and indirect costs; used for sole-source T&M/LH task orders.
- For other task orders, pricing is provided at the task-order level.
- Ceiling rates do not include Secret/Top Secret or OCONUS additions.
- One price proposal is used across domains.
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- If you are not 3–5 points above the threshold, consider partnering to add cushion points.
- JVs, mentor-protégé JVs, and prime/sub relationships are acceptable approaches.
- Partner contracts can be used for both QPs and FEPs, which make up most of the score.
- Important: For SB submissions, subcontractors must be small under this domain.
- You can use multiple subcontractors; there is no stated limitation.
Mentor-Protégé JV scoring notes
- At least one QP must come from the protégé company.
- Annual value thresholds for protégé contracts are halved for QP and FEP thresholds (as described), and the same rule applies to UNR submissions.
If you’re actively building a team, use GDIC’s Partnering Hub to register and find potential primes and subs by domain and set-aside.
- Administrative services firms supporting records, clerical operations, or back-office services
- BPO providers with digitization, mailroom, or scheduling support
- Translation, transcription, or language services vendors seeking federal expansion
- Firms offering process improvement and business support services
- Companies providing administrative staffing or temp help services
- Vendors supporting document/data automation and business service centers
- Teams pursuing general office, mailroom, or scheduling task orders
- JVs combining admin services and process reengineering
- What services fall under the OASIS+ Business Administration domain?
- Which NAICS codes are auto-relevant for Business Administration?
- What is the minimum qualification score for SB vs UNR?
- What counts as a Qualifying Project (QP) and what annual value is required?
- How do Federal Experience Projects (FEPs) add points?
- Which systems, clearances, and certifications add points?
FAQ
What is OASIS+ Business Administration Readiness?
It means you can document domain-aligned work, align projects to the domain’s auto-relevant NAICS, and support scoring claims with defensible evidence.
What is the minimum qualification score?
The domain scoring framework lists a maximum score of 50 and minimum qualification scores of 36 (SB) and 42 (UNR).
What are Qualifying Projects (QPs) and what annual value is required?
Up to five QPs can be used. QPs can be federal prime, federal subcontract, or commercial contracts and must be services (FAR Part 37). Minimum annual value is $500K for SB and $1M for UNR, with time-window and past performance requirements.
How do Federal Experience Projects (FEPs) contribute to points?
FEPs include task orders under multiple-award IDIQs/BPAs (prime only) and credit for supporting three or more distinct federal agencies, subject to annual value and timing requirements.
Which systems, clearances, or certifications can add points?
The framework includes points for government-approved business systems (e.g., accounting and others for UNR), active facility clearance (Secret or Top Secret), and certain certifications such as CMMI Level 2+, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22301, and CMMC Level 2+ (with caps).
When does partnering matter most?
Partnering is commonly considered when your score posture is close to the minimum threshold and you need cushion points—especially because QPs and FEPs drive most of the score.
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