SIN 132-51 Information Technology (IT) Professional Services

• FPDS Code D302 IT Systems Development Services
  
• FPDS Code D306 IT Systems Analysis Services
  
• FPDS Code D308 Programming Services
  
• FPDS Code D316 IT Network Management Services
  
• FPDS Code D399 Other Information Technology Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
  
  • Labor Categories:
    
    • Program Manager
      
    • Project Manager
      
    • IT Specialist/Consultant
      
    • Subject Matter Expert
      
    • Electronic Commerce
      
    • Programmer
      
    • Database Programmer
      
    • Systems Programmer
      
    • Systems Analyst
      
    • Network Administrator
      
    • Database Administrator
      
    • Computer Operations
      
    • Help Desk
      
    • Training
      
    • Functional Analyst
      
    • Technical Writer/Editor
      
    • Administrative Professional
      

APC, Inc. Outsourced Solutions
APC, Inc. has expertise in the following areas:

GSA Schedule 70 Ordering Process:

Step 1: Customer consults with APC business development professionals to develop the Statement of Work (SOW) and provides it to the Contracting Office Technical Representative/Contracting Office Representative (COTR/COR).

Step 2: COTR/COR reviews documentation and forwards with funding documents to Contracting Office.

Step 3: Contracting Office requests quote from APC.

Step 4: APC responds to the request with a price quote and technical proposal, if applicable, to Contracting Office for evaluation and award.

Step 5: Contracting Office awards and distributes documentation to APC.

Step 6: Project Starts.

Blanket Purchase Order Agreements
Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) are a simplified method of filling anticipated repetitive needs for services and products. BPAs are "charge accounts" which ordering offices establish with GSA Schedule contractors to provide themselves with an easy ordering tool. In accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.404, ordering offices may establish BPAs under any GSA Schedule contract.

Benefits and Advantages of Using BPAs
Contractual terms and conditions are contained in GSA Schedule contracts and are not to be re-negotiated for GSA Federal Supply Schedule BPAs. Therefore, as a purchasing option, BPAs eliminate such contracting and open market costs as the search for sources, the need to prepare solicitations, and the requirement to synopsize the acquisition. BPA's also:

• Satisfy recurring requirements.
  
• Reduce acquisition costs through quantity discounts.
  
• Save time by eliminating repetitive, individual purchases and payments.
  
• Reduce administrative efforts and paperwork.
  
• Obtain better value by leveraging your buying power through volume purchasing.
  
• Enable you to use streamlined ordering procedures with no dollar limitations on individual task/delivery orders.
  
• Permit you to incorporate Contractor Team Arrangements.
  
• Allow for quicker turnarounds on orders.
  
• Permit you to incorporate terms and conditions not in conflict with the underlying contract.
  

A BPA can be set up for your field offices across the nation to use, thus allowing them to participate in your BPA and place orders directly with GSA Federal Supply Schedule contractors. In doing so, your entire agency reaps the benefits of additional discounts negotiated into your BPA. In addition, you reduce the administrative burden of writing numerous task/delivery orders, while still being able to order as much as you want and as often as you want. The flexibility and advantages available to you are endless when you set up a BPA.

Setting Up a BPA
BPAs are established directly with GSA Schedule contractors. Your Request For Quotation (RFQ) should specify your requirements, including estimated quantities and work to be performed, and should advise GSA Schedule contractors whether you intend to establish a single BPA or multiple BPAs.

Generally, a single BPA should be established when you can easily define your service and/or product requirements and a fixed price or ceiling price can be established. Since a best value selection is made when the single BPA is established, you do not need to make a separate best value selection for each order under the BPA.

Multiple BPAs should be established when you cannot easily define your service and/or product requirements, or you determine that more than one BPA is needed to meet your needs. First determine which GSA Schedule contractors are technically qualified and then establish BPAs with them. When multiple BPAs are established, each order must compete among all BPA holders and a best value selection must be made each time an order is placed.

All BPAs must contain certain information, such as:

• Name of the GSA Schedule contractor.
• GSA Schedule contract number.