GSA Contracting

Any Federal agency, and the government of the District of Columbia, can quickly and easily order support services directly from Cadmus.  We are on four government-wide schedules maintained by the General Services Administration (GSA)  and can provide the following types of services:

• Environmental Services.  Cadmus can provide environmental planning and compliance services such as preparing environmental impact statements; conducting economic, technical, or risk analyses; and performing environmental compliance audits and pollution prevention surveys.  Cadmus also can provide environmental training services.  Download our contract catalog in Adobe PDF format.
  
  
• Energy Management Services.  Any federal agency can issue a task order to Cadmus to perform work related to energy efficiency and energy management.  Services include analysis of alternative energy sources, building commissioning services, energy audits, resource efficiency management, billing and management oversight, preparing agency statements of work, metering services, risk management, energy choice analysis, and energy planning and strategy development.  Download our contract catalog in Adobe PDF format.
  
  
• Marketing Services.  Under the Advertising & Integrated Marketing Solutions (AIMS)  schedule, Cadmus can provide market research, media analysis and related services, and public education and media services.  Download our contract catalog in Adobe PDF format.

Before we won our place on these schedules through a competitive bidding process, GSA evaluated our technical capabilities in each area and negotiated our rates.  Prospective new clients thus can be confident in our ability to provide cost-effective, high-quality support services.  Clients can use the streamlined procurement process afforded by GSA task orders to select Cadmus for a project and authorize work to begin within a few weeks.

GSA Ordering Process

The GSA task order process is highly streamlined compared to the procurement process used by most Federal agencies. What would take months to accomplish through the normal RFP process can be done in a few short weeks with a minimum of paperwork.  Here is the basic process that a Federal agency uses to issue a task order under one of these schedules:

Step 1: Prepare a Request for Quotes (RFQ)

An RFQ is a brief document. It includes a Statement of Work and instructions on how the responding contractors should prepare their technical and price proposals. It often includes a page limit for responses (often no more than 10 pages) and a deadline for receiving responses (often no more than 2 weeks). The RFQ also specifies the criteria the agency will use to select the winning proposal, including the intended use of past performance factors. At EPA, a contracting officer helps the ordering office assemble the RFQ.

Step 2: Transmit the RFQ to Contractors

The ordering office selects a small number of contractors (usually three) that are on the applicable schedule (this information is available on GSA's Web site), and the office, or more typically the ordering agency's contracting office, sends the RFQ to those contractors.

Step 3: Evaluate Quotes and Select the Winning Contractor

The ordering office evaluates the contractors' responses against the evaluation criteria in the RFQ and selects the contractor that provides the best value to the government.

Step 4: Work Begins

The agency issues a task order to the selected contractor and work begins.