GCS offers cost-effective acquisition life cycle management services that enable our government clients to bridge the gap to success in today’s environment of increasingly stringent oversight. Our thought leadership and forward-looking expertise enables thorough assessments, actionable and defensible strategic plans, effective collaboration, and communication between procurement and program offices, including Program Management Offices (PMOs), and Program Executive Offices (PEOs).
As a result, our clients achieve maximum transparency and accountability via audit-ready acquisition processes built on proven best practices. GCS’ acquisition lifecycle management services include:
- Acquisition Strategy and Planning
GCS helps clients align acquisition practices with agency objectives at both the individual contract and enterprise levels. Our services include market research/surveys that identify and document potential sources for meeting the agency’s specific needs and socio-economic goals. Our strategic approach carefully balances those resources with performance objectives and metrics, contract types, time constraints, and budget considerations. The end result is defensible strategic acquisition plans that deliver on program objectives and meet the combined needs of agency stakeholders.
- Policy Planning & Implementation
We offer expertise in developing and executing acquisition policies and procedures, including providing policy research, legislative trend analysis and recommendations, and needs assessments. This includes helping clients evaluate the impact of new federal acquisition policies and rules on their agency operations. GCS also develops and executes action plans that facilitate adoption of new acquisition policies, including agency-wide communications, training, monitoring, tracking, and enforcement.
- Requirements Generation
The key to effective acquisitions is the development of realistic, achievable requirements that reflect a deep understanding of the stakeholder community and its overarching mission. GCS assists clients in the preparation of Requests for Proposals, Statements of Work, and other requirements documentation that translates business objectives into understandable requirements to which contractors can effectively respond. Our support includes helping program offices in drafting specifications and requirements, overall coordination of the requirements definition process, and/or focused consultation during critical steps in this process.
- Source Selection
Whether assisting in the preparation of a major competitive solicitation or supporting the contracting officers and program offices in an informal vendor screening, GCS’ expertise spans the myriad of activities that comprise this vital function. This includes delivering the professional and administrative support to develop briefings, draft technical evaluation plans, coordinate oral presentations, advise during the tradeoff process, assist the Contracting Officer in conducting cost and/or price analyses that may be required and document decisions – all with a keen eye focused on maximizing best value in source selection. GCS also has extensive experience providing protest support for all phases of the GAO process.
- Performance-Based Contracting
Government agencies rely on GCS to develop and execute sound performance-based contracting solutions based on best practices and guidance issued by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP). After engaging stakeholders, we deliver a Statement of Objectives that captures key agency goals and desired outcomes. This critical deliverable incorporates performance-based service acquisitions in order for competitive solutions providers to effectively propose their technical approach, performance standards, and Quality Assurance practice, which helps assure compliance with the client’s standards. GCS also assists in the development and execution of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and related Quality Assurance plans as well as delivers detailed work analyses and performance requirement summaries at every task level.
- Transition to Program Execution
GCS' team of acquisition and program management professionals are ready to assist in all phases of the program life cycle. GCS facilitates and helps manage the transition from mission needs analysis, requirements definition, analysis of alternatives and program planning, to program execution. Experienced Program Managers help develop program management and performance assessment tools in the areas of cost, schedule and technical performance. GCS assists in the development of performance based measures and outcomes useful in determining achievement of key milestones and performance targets. We develop and can implement effective quality assurance surveillance program plans to ensure compliance with contract and program requirements and serve as a basis of performance monitoring and progress assessment. Our program management approach helps ensure that complex systems are successfully developed, fielded as planned and effectively maintained for mission accomplishment.
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