Contracts

Tyto Athene wins $66M DHA e-commerce support contract

The Defense Health Agency uses the systems to help keep payments going across military and private sector health care networks.

Contracts

Library of Congress chooses 8 for $450M agile development vehicle

The U.S.' de facto national library is responsible for a collection of approximately 162 million items in at least 450 languages.

Contracts

CGI Federal touts $522M EPA IT modernization win

The Environmental Protection Agency's focus for this program is on new technologies that can support its agenda for addressing climate change and other societal priorities.

Contracts

NOAA gives first look at space traffic control system plan

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has taken the lead on building a satellite traffic coordination system to gather data from other government agencies and major satellite operators.

Contracts

Army unveils first draft for $4B in R&D services recompetes

Small businesses are the intended audience for this draft solicitation but the Army is working on a second contract for a full-and-open competition next year.

Contracts

Losing bidder protests $333M VA cybersecurity award

The company alleges that the Veterans Affairs Department unreasonably evaluated its bid and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff decision.

Contracts

4 more providers join $900M satellite services contract

Space Force uses the vehicle to acquire satellite capabilities from a base of global, commercial network providers.

Contracts

DOD starts to sketch out broad research support recompete

The so-called RETS vehicle puts contractors at the heart of the Defense Department's technology innovation and investment agenda.

Contracts

OPM puts data at the center of human capital modernization

Contractors should focus on data standards as they develop solutions, a senior Office of Personnel Management official says.

Contracts

All sides ask court to dismiss case involving $1B DISA contract

It is unclear if the Defense Information Systems Agency will stand by its choice of American Systems or restart the competition.

Companies

Census Bureau awards $275M communications support pact

The agency sought a contractor to help it improve internal and external communications across all channels and other means of interactions with citizens.

Contracts

IBM loses attempt to change VA supply chain modernization contract evaluation

In this unsuccessful protest, Big Blue argued that the Veterans Affairs Department's approach restricted competition.

Contracts

Company claims eBuy glitch nixed its bid for $450M DHS competition

One protester is alleging the glitch caused a special character to become part of a file name, making its submission inaccessible.

Contracts

GovTribe's top 20 contracts for October

Based on an analysis of their website traffic, our colleagues at GovTribe have picked the top 20 contracts for October that are being closely-watched across the industry.

Contracts

Veterans Affairs awards $331M cyber center task order

Work supports the department's team responsible for network incident response and monitoring, among other functions.

Contracts

DARPA chooses 6 for $1.25B professional services vehicle

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency uses its so-called TASS vehicle to acquire technical support for its programs and offices in areas such as research-and-development.

Podcasts

WT 360: Budget disconnects, opportunities define today's federal market landscape

John Caucis and James Wichert, public sector analysts at the market intelligence firm Technology Business Research, share their findings on how government contractors are working through the lack of regular budgets and the larger tech talent competition.

Opinion

TSA backtracks on $93M award to Deloitte after protests

Three unlikely competitors pursued this blanket purchase agreement to help the Transportation Security Agency run its security operations center.

Contracts

Treasury sketches out family of enterprise cyber contracts

These blanket purchase agreements will go by the apt acronym of PROTECTS and focus on security operations center functions.

Contracts

Army developing next version of enterprise-wide payroll system

CACI International has worked on the system since 2015. but will almost certainly face competition for the recompete.