ASRC Federal arm wins $428M DHS animal disease center support contract

A subsidiary of ASRC Federal wins a potential 10-year, $428 million contract to help DHS run the agency's main animal disease research center.

FedBid gets new Navy reverse auction contract

Reverse auction provider FedBid receives a new five-year contract from the Navy for continued use of the company’s acquisition marketplace platform.

Red River wins second shot at $1.6B DHS cloud contract

Red River prevailed in just enough of its bid protest to win a second chance to be a prime on a $1.6 billion DHS enterprise and cloud computing services contract.

Booz Allen books $165M Cybercom support order

Booz Allen Hamilton takes in a potential five-year, $165 million contract to support planning and policy efforts at U.S. Cyber Command.

DOD hands down $800M microelectronics contract

The Defense Department awards a potential 10-year, $800 million contract to three small businesses for engineering work to support microelectronic technology work.

American Systems takes in $68M Air Force emergency system order

American Systems books a five-year, $68.6 million task order to help the Air Force install a new emergency mass notification system based in a cloud environment.

CSRA moves milCloud 2.0 closer to going live

CSRA is eyeing Feb. 1 as the date to roll out the much-anticipated milCloud 2.0 computing infrastructure for the Defense Department.

Jacobs clears protest hurdle on $480M DISA win

Jacobs Technology can now proceed with a $480 million DISA contract for test and evaluation services now that GAO has denied a competitor's protest.

General Dynamics books $59M Army medical training support contract

General Dynamics' IT arm takes in a potential five-year, $58.9 million contract for medical training support to the Army.

CSRA challenges $600M DHA info system award to Leidos

Incumbent Leidos held onto a $600 million DHA information system sustainment contract, but CSRA has lodged a bid protest to challenge the award.

Tribally-owned business takes on Boeing for F-15 work

S&K Aerospace is challenging an award to Boeing to modernize how Saudi Arabia's air force maintains its fleet of F-15 fighter jets.

Air Force picks nine for $496M data link contract

The Air Force chooses nine companies for a potential 10-year, $496 million data link platform support contract.

GAO decision rejects incumbent bids for $7.8B SSA contract

GAO rejects a series of protests by incumbents Accenture and CSRA and new bidder DXC Technologies against the Social Security Administration's $7.8 billion IT contract awards. That leaves CGI Federal, Leidos and Northrop Grumman as the winners.

Two contracts and one customer: both very different protest results

NCI's AdvancedMed prevailed in a protest in November with CMS. But a second protest involving a different CMS contract did not turn out so well for them.

Rand finds poor debriefings the major culprit of bid protests

Bid protests have nearly doubled since 2008 but don't blame contractors. Poor debriefings are the most likely cause, according to a new Rand Corp. study.

Sen. McCaskill questions $297M Accenture contract to hire Border Patrol Agents

Sen. Claire McCaskill has fired off a letter to Customs and Border Protection questioning its $297 million contract to Accenture for helping hiring 7,500 agents and officers.

OSC Edge wins $44M National Defense University IT contract

OSC Edge takes a five-year, $44.3 million contract to help run the National Defense University's IT environment.

GSA awards $250M Public Buildings Service IT BPA

The General Services Administration awards seven companies spots on a five-year, $250 million blanket purchase agreement for IT services to GSA's Public Buildings Service organization.

Secret investment might net AWS sole-source DOD cloud contract

The U.S. Transportation Command is planning a sole-source award to Amazon Web Services for a move of SIPRnet applications to the cloud.

NASA takes second shot at $1.2B award to SGT

NASA has taken a second try at an award of its $1.2 billion Mission Systems Operations Contract to the original winner in Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies.