Synthesis Partners, LLC
11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 2
Reston,VA20190USA
Tel: 571-247-7340
Email:
General Services Administration
Authorized Federal Supply Schedule Price List
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Professional Services Schedule
Contract Period: August 25, 2014 through August 24, 2019
Federal Supply Service
Authorized Federal Supply Schedule Price List
Industrial Group: 00CORP
Contract No.: GS-10F-0503P
Business Size: Small
Special Item Number (SIN):
874-1:Integrated Consulting Services
Customer Information
1a. Awarded Special Item Numbers
Under this contract, Synthesis Partners is authorized to provide services under the following Special Item Number (SIN)
SIN 874-1:Integrated Consulting Services
SIN 874-1RC: Disaster and Recovery
1b. Pricing
See the Pricing section of this catalog for prices by labor category. These categories are defined in the Labor Category Definitions section.
2. Maximum Order Threshold
Maximum order size is $1 million.
3. Service Contract Act
The Service Contract Act (SCA) is applicable to this contract and as it applies to the entire Professional Services Schedule and all services provided. While no specific labor categories have been identified as being subject to SCA due to exemptions for professional employees (FAR 22.1101, 22.1102 and 29 CFR 541.300), this contract still maintains the provisions and protections for SCA eligible labor categories. If and/or when the Contractor adds SCA labor categories / employees to the contract through the modification process, the Contractor must inform the Contracting Officer and establish a SCA matrix identifying the GSA labor category titles, the occupational code, SCA labor category titles and applicable wage determination (WD) number. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the contract.
4. Minimum Order
$100.00
5. Geographic Coverage
Domestic.
6. Points of production
Synthesis Partners and customer locations.
7. Discount from List Prices of Statement of Net Price
All prices in this catalog are net.
8. Quantity Discounts
We are always willing to discuss possible additional discounts on a case-by-case basis.
9. Prompt Payment Terms
Net 30 days.
10. Government Commercial Credit Card
a.Acceptance: Synthesis Partners will accept payment by government commercial credit cards for purchases below the micro-purchase threshold ($2,500 in most cases; $15,000 for certain task orders involving Homeland Security).Synthesis does not accept the Card for purchases over the micro-purchase threshold.
b.Discount for Payment by Government Commercial Credit Card: Contact Synthesis Partners. Discounts for use of the card may be available on request.
11. Foreign Items
None.
12. Delivery
a. Time of Delivery: To be negotiated with the ordering agency on each task order.
c.Expedited Delivery: Contact Synthesis Partners for rates for expedited delivery.
d.Overnight and 2-day Delivery: Contact Synthesis Partners for rates for such delivery.
d. Urgent Requirements: Contact Synthesis Partners for faster delivery or rush requirements.
13. F.O.B. Points(s)
Destination.
14. Ordering Address
Synthesis Partners
11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 2
Reston,VA20190
ATTENTION: Richard Holcomb
Phone:571-247-7340
E-mail:
15. Payment Addresses
Should the ordering agency wish to use Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payment, the ordering agency should contact Richard Holcomb for routing instructions. Mr. Holcomb can be reached as shown above in Item 13.
Should EFT not be available, the remittance address is as follows:
Synthesis Partners
11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 2
Reston,VA20190
16. Warranty Provision
Standard commercial warranty.
17. Export Packaging Charges
Not applicable.
18. Terms and Conditions of Government Commercial Credit Card Acceptance
See Item #9, above.
19. Terms and Conditions of Rental, Maintenance, and Repair
Not applicable.
20. Terms and Conditions of Installation
Not applicable.
21. Terms and Conditions of Repair Parts, etc:
Not applicable.
Terms and Conditions for any other services: Not applicable.
22. List of Service and Distribution Points
Not applicable.
23. List of Participating Dealers
Not applicable.
24. Preventive Maintenance
Not applicable.
25. Special Attributes
Not applicable.
26. Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number
132 96 0704
27. Central Contractor Registration (CCR)
Registered.
Advantages of GSA Professional Services Contracts
Does your agency need the services of a contractor to provide cutting-edge advice on managerial, organizational, or business process issues? Do you require survey services to learn more about your customers and stakeholders? Would you like to select and activate a contractor quickly, while minimizing your administrative and paperwork burdens, and ensuring that you will pay fair and reasonable prices?
The GSA Schedule program for Management, Organizational, and Business Improvement Services (MOBIS) might be an excellent solution. Under this program, GSA has negotiated and signed contracts with many contractors, at favorable prices and with long periods of performance. The base period in our contract, for example, lasts until 2009, with options to extend the contract until 2023.
Any federal agency can order services under these task order-type contracts, using streamlined procedures. You can select a contractor, issue a task order, and have the contractor begin work, typically within a few weeks, for small projects or large, multi-million dollar efforts.
Key advantages of using a GSA MOBIS contractor include the following:
Dozens ofhighly qualified firms,with task order contracts that are signed and in place. You choose which contractor will best meet your unique needs. GSA does not get involved in your selection process.
Dramatictime savings. You can typically select and activate a contractor within a few weeks.
Minimal administrative burdenon your agency. When your agency places an order with a GSA contractor, the order will be considered to have been placed using full and open competition.
You are not required to synopsize the requirement in FedBizOpps.
GSA has already determined that prices offered by GSA contractors are fair and reasonable.
All applicable federal procurement laws and regulations, including small business set-asides, already have been applied.
No maximum dollar limitson task orders.
Flexibility. For example, you can set up a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with a GSA contractor, in the event that you do not know the precise timing and level of effort of individual tasks that you would like the contractor to perform. You can use a BPA as an ordering device that your offices nationwide can participate in, allowing them to place orders directly.
Direct relationshipwith the contractor.
Your agency willnothave to transfer funds to GSA and willnothave to set up an interagency agreement.
Your contractor will deliver services and associated progress reports and invoices directly to your agency. GSA does not inject itself into your client/contractor relationship.
GSA contractors have wide latitude to select and usesubcontractors.
3 Easy Steps
It is relatively easy for agencies to use GSA Schedule Contractors. There are 3 basic steps, which can be accomplished in a few weeks:
- Prepare a Statement of Work and give it to your Contracting Officer (CO).
- Select a GSA Schedule Contractor. For example, your CO can ask several Schedule Contractors to submit brief proposals and budgets within, say, 10 days. You and your CO will select a contractor using best value criteria. Except in rare circumstances, your selection is not subject to protest.
- Place your order directly with your selected contractor.
If your order is expected to exceed $1 million, you should try to seek price discounts from GSA Schedule Contractors in accordance with FAR 8.404; you have the option of seeking discounts for smaller orders.
And remember: GSA does not get involved in your procurement process. You can, however, always ask GSA for assistance.
Why Select Synthesis Partners?
Located inReston,Virginia, a suburb ofWashington,DC, Synthesis Partners provides services within the scope of MOBIS to corporations, andU.S.government defense and civilian agencies. Synthesis Partners is a Decision Intelligence firm that combines strategic thinking with traditional and innovative analysis techniques to help our clients make better decisions and mitigate risk. We focus on Technologies, Businesses and Markets, and Futures. Synthesis Partners collects, analyzes and integrates hard-to-find open-source information to provide decision-makers with previously unavailable knowledge and new insights on an individual project or ongoing basis.The following is a brief description of our services:
Technology Intelligence: Our unique Technology Intelligence service helps clients identify new innovative technologies that can make the difference between incremental improvement and breakthrough applications. We employ an Off-Axis Intelligence approach to look outside your normal field-of-view with a global reach. Our scouting results are customized to help our clients through functional analysis of product or process needs and through comprehensive scans of what competitors, foreign developers and government laboratories are doing. By employing proprietary Value Models we can compare and rank technologies in a consistent and objective manner. Our unique Technology Decision Strategy process incorporates components of Technology Intelligence, as well as other in-house capabilities to fully characterize current and plausible future opportunities and threats, scout, assess, rank, and monitor key technologies that can fulfill market needs and/or strategic objectives. Clients gain early warning and new insights into innovations that can lead to new markets, tangible profit-making opportunities and enhanced competitive advantage. We uncover new and valuable strategic partnerships and alliances and often find new prospects with an immediate need for the technologies or expertise offered by our clients.
Business and Market Intelligence:We characterize markets and specific companies to provide strategic understanding and insight about current activity and future trends to provide our clients with competitive advantage. Customized deliverables cover all aspects of market assessment including market and geopolitical trends, competitor analysis, cost of production, partner relationships, product and technology evaluation and Perception Intelligence.
Future Intelligence Processes: Our proprietary Future Intelligence Processes enable our clients to understand and take advantage of emerging changes, surprises and disruptions in their evolving environment. Our unique approach combines proven and innovative business intelligence and scenario planning methods to strengthen strategic decision making in areas such as strategy development and R&D investment. Future Intelligence provides our clients with practical knowledge of direct and indirect drivers of change and assessments of their relative importance. Clients gain a better understanding of what factors they can and cannot influence and of how to respond in effective ways. .Future intelligence has helped clients to understand possible impacts of their actions and to develop early warning signals that provide alerts of possible disruptive changes.
Our corporate clients hail from diverse industries such as aerospace, biotechnology, computers, consumer goods, energy, information technology, medical, pharmaceutical, and transportation, among others. Our government clients include many on the forefront of issues related to Homeland Security, and other programmatic areas that are sensitive to and promote or rely on technological advances.
Synthesis Partners offers federal agencies with distinct advantages.
Speed and Flexibility. Our well-established electronic and human resources permit quick and thorough research across a vast number of original sources. We are, for example, capable of shortening the duration of due diligence investigations and other projects from weeks or months to days.
Source Depth and Breadth. Our staff has extensive professional experience in the electronic and human collection of all-source research with access to relevant individuals and thousands of domestic and international databases. We have expertise across many industries and sectors. Quickly converting information into knowledge is considered a hallmark of our work.
Global Reach. To effectively respond to your requirements around the globe, our team of experts draws on worldwide experience and resources.
Precision and Discretion. We apply all-source techniques to every client requirement with surgical accuracy resulting in productive, effective, and precise intelligence.
Intelligence "Outside the Box" and Without Borders. We pride ourselves on our ability to think creatively to ensure that we have pursued all possible intelligence sources and avenues of information gathering that might give our clients the strategic insight they need. We are innovators!
Quality of Analysis. We identify, isolate and process all relevant data into useful information which, in turn, is analyzed to provide actionable intelligence for trusted, reliable decisions.
Integrity. We ensure that all information developed for clients is obtained by legal and ethical means and is provided on a confidential basis. Under the GSA contract, we will observe all applicable federalrule, such as adherence to the Paperwork Reduction Act which, among other things, requires OMB approval for surveys.
Cost Effectiveness. Our integrated, flexible, and customized approach ensures real value for our clients.
Knowledge of the Rules. Synthesis Partners understands the unique challenges of serving federal government agencies and has a proven record of meeting their needs. That is one of the reasons why our federal government clients repeatedly assign us complex assignments. Our principals were former high-ranking federal staff members. Synthesis Partners is fully conversant in federal government contractual and administrative protocols and procedures.
Leveraging of Private Sector Experience. Throughout its history, Synthesis Partners has applied the technical skills and market knowledge forged through our work in the private sector to our public sector assignments. The lessons we have learned in consulting corporate executives has helped us sharpen our insights when we help public sector agencies design efficient and effective approaches for meeting their programmatic mandates.
Scope of Work
Under our GSA Schedule Contract, we can offer a wide range of management consulting services to federal agencies. The Scope of Work of our contract is divided into three Special Item Number (SIN), listed below. The tasks listed within the SIN are examples only, and are not meant to limit or exclude any services within the scope of our contract.
SIN 874-1: Integrated Consulting Services
Contractors shall provide expert advice, assistance, guidance or counseling in support of federal agency management, organizational and business improvement efforts. This may also include studies, analyses and reports documenting any proposed developmental, consultative or implementation efforts. Examples of consultation include but are not limited to:
Strategic, business and action planning
High performance work
Process and productivity improvement
Systems alignment
Leadership systems
Organizational assessments
Cycle time
Performance measures and indicators
Program audits, and evaluations
Government Hourly Rates
If the agency Contracting Officer chooses to purchase from the Special Item Number (SIN) contained in this catalog on a firm fixed price Task/Delivery Order basis, the total price shall be established at the time of the order and will be based on the prices offered herein.