OASIS+: How to Navigate Complexity with Confidence

Few contract vehicles carry the strategic weight of OASIS+. For professional services firms in the GovCon space, it represents long-term access to federal agencies, broad scope flexibility, and significant revenue potential. However, that opportunity comes with a tradeoff; OASIS+ is also one of the most complex proposals many contractors will ever prepare.

For large businesses, the solicitation spans 13 distinct domains, while small businesses face a 12-domain structure. Within each domain, offerors typically encounter 9 to 12 detailed questions, each with specific documentation and validation requirements. When multiplied across domains, the volume of required inputs quickly escalates, and attachments supporting your score must be accurate, aligned, and compliant.

Why OASIS+ Is So Difficult to Get Right

OASIS+ requires contractors to demonstrate capability across multiple dimensions, including corporate experience, past performance, systems, and certifications. Each domain has unique expectations, and experience that is valid in one domain may not apply or may need to be framed differently in another.

This complexity introduces several common risks:

• Correct interpretation of questions: OASIS+ questions are often dense and easy to misread. A small misunderstanding can result in an erroneous response.
• Accurate self-scoring validation: OASIS+ relies heavily on contractor-assigned scores. Every point claimed must be supported by compliant evidence.
• Tracking and organization: OASIS+ proposals often involve large teams working in parallel across domains. Without a structured approach, it becomes difficult to track progress, ownership, and gaps across the proposal.

Why Compliance Is Hard to Validate Manually

Manual tracking makes it difficult to answer basic but critical questions, such as:

• Have all domain requirements been fully addressed?
• Is every self-scored point clearly supported by evidence?
• Where are the gaps or weak areas that need attention?

Without clear visibility, compliance efforts often become difficult.

How Lohfeld’s Free Tracker Tool Can Reduce Risk

To address these challenges, Lohfeld Consulting developed afree OASIS+ Compliance Tracker Tool designed specifically to help contractors manage complexity and reduce compliance risk.

The Compliance Tracker provides a centralized way to:

• Track requirements and questions across all domains
• Validate self-scoring elements against supporting documentation
• Identify missing, incomplete, or weak responses early

Hundreds of contractors downloaded Lohfeld’s OASIS+ Tracker Tool for the original OASIS+ contract and found it indispensable. By organizing proposal elements in one place, the tool helps teams spot missteps.

Conclusion: A Smarter Way to Approach OASIS+

OASIS+ rewards contractors who demonstrate not only capability, but also discipline, organization, and attention to detail. Lohfeld Consulting supports contractors at every stage of the OASIS+ process from early planning and strategy through proposal development, validation, and review. Combined with the free OASIS+ Compliance Tracker Tool, Lohfeld Consulting’s expertise helps teams navigate OASIS+ with confidence. For additional support, contact Lohfeld Consulting to learn how our proposal and capture experts can help you reduce risk, strengthen compliance, and compete more effectively.

By Brenda Crist, Vice President at Lohfeld Consulting Group, MPA, CPP APMP Fellow

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