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GSA FORECAST OF CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES LEGEND
FORECAST DATA ELEMENTS
GSA Organization - office requesting the procurement
Region - office location
[NAME] to a contractor, in the process of awarding, or open for proposal/solicitation submission
Product or Service Description - type of product to be provided or service to be performed
Procurement Classification Code - identifies specific work in an industry
Place of Performance (City/State) - business location or where product is manufactured
North American Industrial Classification Code - the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and
and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy
Contract Type - Type of procurement such as Firm Fixed Price, Fee, etc.
Acquisition Strategy - Procurement type (set-aside, GSA Schedules, etc.)
Socioeconomic and Acquisition Strategy Rationale – justification provided when small business not selected
Estimated Contract Value (Minimum/Maximum) - cost based on work to be performed and price analysis
Incumbent [NAME] - current contract holder
New Requirement or Exercise of Option - new opportunity or extending a previously awarded contract
Quarter (for Initial procurement) – anticipated fiscal year quarter for award to be made
Fiscal Year – October 1 to September 30 (one fiscal year)
Point of Contact (name, phone number, email address) - Project/Program Manager, [NAME], or Contracting Office
Purchase Decision – factor on which the final decision will be based (best value etc.)
ACRONYMS
AAS - Assisted Acquisition Services
CO - Contracting Officer
IAE - Integrated Acquisition Environment
IDIQ - Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity
LPTA - Low Price/Technically Acceptable
REGIONAL BREAKDOWN
R1  - Region 1 New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
R2 - Region 2 Northeast and Caribbean (New York, New Jersey, US Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)
R3 - Region 3 Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland (excluding [NAME] and [NAME]), New Jersey (southern), Virginian (excluding the cities
of Falls Church and Alexandria and Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William counties), Europe, Africa and the Middle East)
R4 - Region 4 Southeast Sunbelt (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
R5 - Region 5 Great Lakes(Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin)
R6 - Region 6 The Heartland (Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska)
R7 - Region 7 Greater Southwest (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Central and South America)
R8 - Region 8 Rocky Mountain (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
R9 - Region 9 Pacific Rim (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, [NAME], Guam, mainland Japan and Okinawa,
the Republic of Korea, Saipan, Singapore)
R10 - Region 10 Northwest/Arctic (Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon)
NCR – National Capital Region (District of Columbia and the nearby Metropolitan Areas of Maryland (Montgomery and [NAME]), Virginia (Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax,
and Falls Church and Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and [NAME])
CO - Central Office
DEFINITION OF TERMS
a small business owned and controlled by a socially and economically disadvantaged individual.
(Historically Underutilized Business Zones) - a program that helps small businesses in urban and rural communities gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities.
These preferences go to small businesses that obtain HUBZone certification in part by employing staff who live in a HUBZone. The company must also maintain a "principal office"
in one of these specially designated areas.
(Woman Owned Small Business) - a firm must be at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more women, and primarily managed by one or more women.  The firm must be “small” in its
primary industry in accordance with SBA’s size standards for that industry.
(Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business) – an SDVOSB must have a service-connected disability that has been determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs or Department of
Defense, business must be small under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code assigned to the procurement, the SDV must unconditionally own 51% of the business,
must control the management and daily operations of the SDVOSBC and the SDV must hold the highest officer position in the SDVOSBC.
Firm Fixed Price - contract price is the price bid, with no incentives or fees added. Cost responsibility is placed wholly on the contractor. The preferred type when cost risk is minimal,
or can be predicted with an acceptable degree of certainty.
Blanket Purchase Agreement - used to fill anticipated repetitive needs for supplies and services.
Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment - use is appropriate to protect both the Government and the contractor when there is serious doubt about the stability of labor or material prices
during the life of the contract. Price adjustment provisions can provide for both upward and downward adjustments.
Indefinite Delivery Contract - (IDC) is a vehicle that has been awarded to one or more vendors to facilitate the delivery of supply and service orders.
Definitive Contract - a mutually binding legal relationship obligating the seller to furnish the supplies or services (including construction) and the buyer to pay for them.
Set-aside - the reserving of an acquisition exclusively for participation by small business concerns who qualify under the appropriate North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code
Labor Hour - a variation of the time-and-materials contract, differing only in that materials are not supplied by the contractor
Basic Ordering Agreement - a written instrument of understanding, negotiated between an agency, contracting activity, or contracting office and a contractor, that contains
(1) terms and clauses applying to future contracts (orders) between the parties during its term, (2) a description, as specific as practicable, of supplies or services to be provided, and
(3) methods for pricing, issuing, and delivering future orders under the basic ordering agreement.  A basic ordering agreement is not a contract.
Negotiated – A contract awarded using other than sealed bidding procedures
[NAME] contract for the purchase of supplies or services that is entered into or proposed to be entered into by an agency after soliciting and negotiating with only one source
O&M - Operation and Maintenance
IDIQ - Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity
also known as Multiple Award Schedules, are indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ), long-term contracts under the General Services Administration's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program