OASIS+ has awarded 552 task orders to 340 companies. That’s $2.12 billion obligated against $16.78 billion in potential value, and small business contract families hold 408 of those orders.
Those numbers come from Session 2 of MAPS, OASIS+, MEGATRON: The Vehicles Deciding Your FY27 Strategy, a three-part GovDash webinar series on the contract vehicles that will steer federal spending next year.
Full Series
MEGATRON: The Air Force’s Next $4.5B Vehicle Is Already Taking Shape
Bryan Guinn, SVP of US Sales, SBIR Advisors
OASIS+: Award Data, On-Ramp Rules, and Capture Strategy
Katie Helwig, Mild Red; Eric Nusbaum and Daniel Abernathy, ENcompass Consulting Group
MAPS: The $50 Billion Decision the Army Is Making Right Now
Allison Gregory, Founder, Allison Works (November 18, 11:00 AM EST)
OASIS+ Session
Brittany Winkler, Head of Industry Partnerships at GovDash, hosted the session. Her three panelists track OASIS+ every week:
- Katie Helwig is President and Co-Founder of Mild Red. She has followed OASIS+ for more than six years and records a weekly OASIS+ weather report with OrangeSlices.
- Eric Nusbaum is Founder and CEO of ENcompass Consulting Group. He helps firms on-ramp and add domains.
- Daniel Abernathy is Chief Growth Officer at ENcompass Consulting Group. He turns the award data into specific capture targets.
In a live poll, most of the audience said they were small businesses, and a large share said they plan to on-ramp this year. The panel built the session around that group.
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The OASIS+ Scoreboard
Katie pulled every OASIS+ award recorded through October 6. She expects the totals to climb before December 31, because DOW awards from Q4 are still working through the 90-day reporting lag.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Task orders awarded | 552 |
| Companies awarded | 340 |
| Total obligated | $2.12B |
| Total potential value | $16.78B |
| Agencies and departments using the vehicle | 21+ |
| Contract families | 6: Unrestricted, Small Business, 8(a), WOSB, SDVOSB, HUBZone |
Small business families hold 408 orders and 59.4% of reported obligations. About 270 small businesses have won at least one order, and just under 200 of them have won exactly one. The top 10 small business firms account for 33% of small business pool dollars.
Leidos leads the unrestricted family in obligations and potential value. Aussie Systems sits between unrestricted and small business, with most of its wins in the R&D domain. Revit leads 8(a), Advanced Concepts leads SDVOSB, and DNG Support Services leads women-owned.
Katie suggested treating these firms as case studies. Look at where they win, how they show up online, and what they do differently, then apply what fits your own process.
Who’s buying
DOD is still the largest user of OASIS+. Within DOD, the Air Force leads with 130 orders, which fits its history: it was the first agency to sign an MOU under legacy OASIS. The Army comes second. DHS, GSA, HHS, State, Justice, and Treasury all award work through the vehicle.
Two buyers stand out in the data:
- The Coast Guard has more orders than any other DHS component. Most of those orders fall between $2M and $6M. Firms with Coast Guard past performance should be tracking them.
- CDC uses OASIS+ heavily. That points to wider HHS adoption ahead.
CIO-SP3 work could move to OASIS+
CIO-SP3 sunsets this month, and Katie expects a meaningful share of its recompetes to land on OASIS+. The vehicle needs at least 51% of the work to count as professional services. Reporting, stakeholder engagement, emerging tech communications, and program support all qualify. How your capture team frames the requirement decides which vehicle it goes to.
Where to Compete: Domain Strategy
Katie mapped orders by domain using GSA’s D2D OASIS+ dashboard. The dashboard was last refreshed in July, but it’s the only public source that breaks orders out by domain.
| Domain | Profile |
|---|---|
| Management and Advisory (M&A) | The catch-all domain, comparable to legacy Pool 1. It leads in order volume with 225 orders, and most MRAS surveys and RFIs start here. |
| Technical and Engineering (T&E) | 80 orders, but the orders are larger, so its obligated total comes close to M&A. |
| R&D, Intelligence, Facilities, Logistics, Environmental | Narrower domains with stricter past performance requirements and fewer competitors. |
“If you can only compete for one domain, do your very best to get on the M&A domain. If you can only do two, get M&A and Technical and Engineering.”
Katie Helwig, Mild Red
Keep an eye on the Facilities domain. Work from the sunsetting BMO vehicle is moving into it, and RFI activity there is rising.
The panel recommended holding one general domain for visibility and one specialized domain for less competition. Eric added that a niche domain pays off most for firms that actively bring customers to OASIS+ and walk contracting offices through the ordering procedures.
Getting On: Phase Two On-Ramp Rules
GSA opened phase two in January 2026, and on-ramping is now continuous. Like a GSA Schedule, you can submit whenever you’re ready. Phase two also added five domains: Business Administration, Marketing and Public Relations, Human Capital, Financial Services, and Social Services.
Scorecard thresholds
| Track | Minimum score |
|---|---|
| Unrestricted | 42 of 50 points |
| Small business (all types) | 36 of 50 points |
The point criteria vary slightly by domain, so check the current scorecard for each domain you plan to bid.
What Amendments 8 and 9 changed
- Qualifying Projects (QPs). You can submit up to five QPs, and they make up most of your score. Each QP now needs the original contract award document. If that document is missing, GSA throws out the QP.
- Scoring updates. CMMC certification now earns points. Sustainability disclosure points were removed from some unrestricted domains.
- New and revised attachments:
- J-P7 now covers JVs, CTAs, and meaningful relationships. You only need it if you’re bidding with teammates.
- J-P12 is the new subcontractor letter of commitment.
- J-P13 collects financial data, and every offeror has to submit it.
- J-P14 is the form for lateral springboards.
If you’re planning to reuse your 2023 proposal, Eric’s advice was to start over with the current instructions.
Lateral springboards. If you already hold a domain on one socioeconomic track, a springboard lets you add another track in the same domain with less paperwork. ENcompass hasn’t seen any springboard awards yet, so GSA appears to be processing them more slowly.
Timelines
| Phase | Typical duration |
|---|---|
| Proposal prep (one domain, organized documentation) | 2 to 3 months |
| GSA evaluation, early phase two submissions | About 4 months |
| GSA evaluation, current submissions | 6 months or more |
“Three months is hopeful. I think you have to look more towards a six month window.”
Katie Helwig, Mild Red
Teaming: The Fine Print That Moves Your Size Status
Eric called teaming the riskiest part of on-ramping, for four reasons.
1. Your largest teammate sets your CLINs. Each domain has one CLIN per NAICS code. You only receive the small business CLINs for NAICS codes where every member of your team qualifies as small.
2. Your teammates’ corporate events can trigger your recertification. If a teammate merges with or is acquired by another company, your size status and CLIN eligibility can change with it.
3. Adding a domain with a teammate puts the domains you already hold at risk. GSA checks the new teammate’s size against the NAICS codes of your existing domains as well as the new one.
4. Socioeconomic and MPJV bids carry minimums. On a socioeconomic track, at least two of your five QPs must come from a company with that designation. In a mentor-protégé JV, at least one QP must come from the protégé.
Task orders work differently. Once you hold the IDIQ, you can team with anyone on individual task orders, as long as you follow the limitations on subcontracting and any subcontracting plan requirements.
“If you can qualify on your own, that’s definitely the way to go. It makes life a whole lot easier.”
Eric Nusbaum, ENcompass Consulting Group
Where Incumbents Are Exposed
Daniel took Katie’s data down to individual opportunities, drawn from the Air Force and Space Force orders in her dataset.
“There’s such an appetite for new competitors. There’s such an appetite for new providers to come in and do work.”
Daniel Abernathy, ENcompass Consulting Group
He shared three things he’s seeing in the field:
- LPTA is coming back. One incumbent told him their recompete switched to LPTA at the last minute.
- Some awards go to one or two bidders and never reach the open market. That means the real down-select is happening at the RFI stage.
- AI is changing sustainment and logistics work. Pilots that predict supply chain needs are already running.
He also walked through three example opportunities:
- F-16 upgrades and maintenance follow-on. It looks like the incumbent will keep it. But the modernization and sustainment work in its scope gives adjacent logistics firms a credible way in.
- A $150M small business requirement. The scope covers cost estimating, enterprise master scheduling, acquisition support, and budget analysis. That’s too much for most single small businesses, which makes it a strong fit for a JV or a team of small businesses.
- An unrestricted geospatial program. It pulls 1,400 data feeds into views across classified domains. It was awarded before current AI capabilities matured, so a challenger with relevant past performance and a modernization plan has a real opening at recompete.
From the Q&A
How many OASIS+ opportunities also appear on GSA MAS?
At the MRAS stage, Katie sees both vehicles listed on more than 80% of surveys. When a survey lists only OASIS+, the buyer has usually already narrowed its approach.
Do agencies use MRAS responses to decide who gets the RFQ?
Katie’s answer: “100%.” Opportunities usually start in the small business or unrestricted pool. MRAS responses then decide whether a requirement moves to a socioeconomic track. If you respond, you should get agency points of contact within 7 to 10 business days. Eric added that some contracting officers now send the RFQ only to firms that answered the MRAS.
Can small businesses win unrestricted orders?
Katie said it’s very difficult. Her advice: “If you can stay small business, stay small business.” If you have enough points for both tracks, holding both gives you more visibility. She also pointed out that large incumbents end up subcontracting when enough small businesses respond to an MRAS to push the requirement into the small business pool.
Your Q1 Checklist
- Respond to every relevant MRAS survey. This is the earliest point where you can shape a requirement.
- Secure M&A and T&E, then add one specialized domain.
- Pull the original award document for every QP now.
- Check every teammate’s size against every NAICS code in your current and target domains.
- Plan for six months of GSA evaluation on top of two to three months of prep.
- Build your 2027 recompete list, starting with CIO-SP3 and BMO work moving to OASIS+.
Get the Resources
The on-demand recording comes with the full slide deck and its live links. That includes Brittany’s 2027 Watch List, a live spreadsheet of every legacy OASIS and OASIS+ task order expiring in 2027. For each order, it lists the incumbent, obligations, place of performance, and contract history.
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Missed Session 1? Bryan Guinn, SVP of US Sales at SBIR Advisors, covers how MEGATRON, the Air Force’s next $4.5B vehicle, is taking shape and how to position for it now.
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Up next: MAPS, The $50 Billion Decision the Army Is Making Right Now
November 18, 2026 | 11:00 AM EST
Allison Gregory, Founder of Allison Works, covers how the Army’s MAPS consolidation will reshape the FY27 pipeline and what capture teams should do before the award decisions land.
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