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The General Services Administration (GSA) is amending the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to remove the GSAR clause Qualifications of Offerors. The provision requires all offerors considered for award for building services expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold and not initiated with Ability One under the Javis-Wagner-O-Day Act to furnish:

• Narrative statement listing comparable contracts performed
• A general history of operating organization and complete experience
• A statement of financial resources
• Information on ability to maintain a staff of regular employees adequate to ensure continuous performance of the work
• Demonstration that equipment and/or plant capacity for the work contemplated is sufficient, adequate, and suitable
• Information on competency in performing comparable building service contracts, acceptable financial resources, personnel staffing, plant, equipment, and supply sources.

As a result of the Retrospective Analysis, GSA determined that the GSAR provision, 552.237-70, Qualifications of Offerors, is obsolete and is no longer necessary. The collection of information associated with this provision is captured in a variety of methods such as: compliance with FAR Part 9 including pre-award information, System for Award Management (SAM) reports, and receipt of contractor's proposal information submitted in response to the Government technical evaluation criteria.

This case is included in GSA's retrospective review of existing regulations under Executive Order 13563. Additional information is located in GSA's retrospective review  (2014), available at: www.gsa.gov/improvingregulations.