We believe that the approach of taking a vertical view of contracting is the future, and this is what nGAP has created with OAS and OCCM. While using a horizontal approach such as what has been the essence of government contracting for decades, there are many areas that while complying with the FAR and DFAR, create an enormous opportunity for a new approach.

In the current horizontal process of today’s government methods, redundancy tends to slow communications to a crawl, which leads to many funding limitations including tracking funds as well as penalizing good and well-run programs and projects. Successful contract management involves a broad array of individual stakeholders such as Contract Officers, Resource Managers, Program Managers, Project Managers, Ordering Officers, Administration Officers, all of whom are included seamlessly in the entire contracting process.
 
While including all contracting and foundational essentials, OAS and OCCM goes well beyond the basics. It simultaneously processes task orders as well as the work order schedules (building, manufacturing, and servicing), and complementary task orders down to line items such as CLINS, SLINS, SWILINS and much more.
 
This vertical approach captures all processes with simple mouse clicks and thereby includes contract management, task order management and the details of work package activity. The introduction to the vertical approach to government contracting permits all of these various actions to be visible and actionable to all stakeholders as listed above.
 
Detailed areas such as workflows, communication directives, RFI and RFP management, contract documentation, and many others will be part of future Insights to allow for greater understanding of the OAS and OCCM in vertical approach.