IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR SCHEDULE 75 HOLDERS INTERESTED IN THE GSA 4th PARTY LOGISTICS PROGRAM

The statutory authority allowing other than full and open competition is Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subsection 6.302-1, Only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. The requirement for which approval is sought is for Operations & Maintenance (O&M) and Tier 2 Tier 3 in-depth technical support services for the nChannel software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, which is the middleware interface between multiple channels that make up the key purchasing solutions for GSA's DoD and Federal civilian agency customers worldwide, nChannel feeds data between GSA's Order Management Services (OMS), which supports the GSS's end-to-end business processes for Supply Chain Management (SCM) Acquisition Management (AM), and Retail Operation (RO) orders (requisitions, sales orders, and purchase orders),, GSA's Enhanced Check Out version 2 (GECO 2), which is utilized in 34 GSA Fourth Party Logistics (4PL) brick-and-mortar stores worldwide with approximately $375M in sales annually, and the Store Portal (SP) application, which is a web shopping application that is utilized as a virtual store for GSA's Office of General Supplies and Services' (GSS) Retail Operations