To succeed, contractors must align with a mission need, plan for security and integration, understand the budget and contracting path, and identify who will own the capability if it succeeds, writes Shelby Pierson, principal at Deep Water Point Associates.
Two pacts for the Census Bureau Transformation & Application Modernization effort are nearly ready to go as the agency keeps working on the other pair.
The Government Accountability Office denied four protests, but also flagged how class deviations from the Federal Acquisition Regulation Overhaul can muddy solicitations.
Industry will have an undetermined amount of extra time to gear up for this contract to centralize IT operations across the entire Homeland Security Department.
The department is looking at the prices of replacement products for its 540,000-user enterprise stack. But with a short turnaround time, Microsoft likely still has an inside track.
A joint venture of Amentum and Science Applications International Corp. has two decades of incumbency, but a challenger is questioning the fairness of the Justice Department's evaluation of recompete bids.
After a protest sank its first attempt, the Defense Information Systems Agency says two dozen companies responded to a market research notice and only Leidos could do the job.
The service branch wants to incorporate commercial supply chain practices into its IT product delivery function that must support a user base of 1 million personnel.
The watchdog agency five remaining challenges, including a set of four that questioned the self-scoring process and consolidation of requirements for the professional services contract.
The Army tested an artificial intelligence tool on the $450 million competition, and its outputs reached evaluators and the contracting officer. The government did not provide many details on that until the judge pressed.
The five-year task order covers logistics, sustainment and maintenance of Army command, control, communications, cyber, ISR and medical systems at 190 locations worldwide.
