Companies

154 firms face ouster from 8(a) program after failing financial eligibility test

The Small Business Administration's crackdown targets companies that have exceeded net worth, income and asset thresholds.

Contracts

Air Force launches program for resilient intelligence platforms

The RAPID program will use traditional and other transaction authority contracts to develop cloud-based tools that can combine multiple intelligence sources with automation and cyber defense tools.

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SAIC pushes back on $1.4B award that went to Accenture

The Army Corps of Engineers is using the five-year task order to modernize IT and cyber systems.

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Marines want uncrewed systems to sout, carry supplies and maybe attack across all domains

A new sources sought notice outlines the Marine Corps' search for vehicles and vessels to use in land, air, sea and underwater operations.

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Veterans Affairs decides to redo software license contract

The department will review its acquisition strategy for an enterprise asset management system following Four Inc.'s protest.

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NASA opens bidding for $1.8B engineering support contract

Technical expertise will trump price in this competition to provide an on-demand technical workforce across dozens of disciplines.

Contracts

GSA makes initial cut of choices for Polaris' woman-owned track

No one has been eliminated from the government-wide IT vehicle, which has a new group of 55 "apparently successful" bidders.

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CIA announces new acquisition framework to speed tech adoption

DARPA alum Efstathia Fragogiannis joined the agency as its new procurement chief in November and will be spearheading the effort, according to a CIA official.

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Veteran-owned business protests Army’s $5.5B sole-source Salesforce contract

TurboVets is challenging the Army's rationale for the award and claims can deliver a comparable platform and services.

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Air Force charts new path to recompete nuclear missile support work

Instead of one big contract, the service branch will hold separate competitions for different lines of work to aid in the transition to a new ground-based system.

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Recordings prove DIA wrong in $814M intelligence contract protest

The Defense Intelligence Agency could not support its evaluation findings that dinged SOS International and Amentum.

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Accenture’s complaints over $1.6B Transportation Command contract fall short

The Government Accountability Office denies Accenture Federal's claims of a conflict of interest at CACI International, whose technical proposal and a willingness to take a lower profit won out.

Contracts

Pentagon chooses 7 for military data collection, analysis contract

Work under this contract directly supports the department's Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation.

Contracts

NITAAC finally pulls the plug on CIO-SP4

The troubled $50 billion IT contract vehicle has faced hundreds of protests that the National Institutes of Health's acquisition arm could never fully resolve.

Contracts

AWS lands $581M sole source deal under Air Force Cloud One program

The three-year contract is the latest in a series of awards the service has made for its enterprise IT infrastructure modernization effort.

Contracts

‘We will have their backs:’ GSA pushes culture shift for FAR changes

Larry Allen of the General Services Administration says training and backing up contracting officers are critical for getting the acquisition workforce to embrace new flexibilities in acquisition regulations.

Contracts

GSA quietly rolls out CMMC-like cybersecurity framework for contractors

The General Services Administration's new requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information apply immediately to new contracts, at the contracting officer's discretion.

Contracts

State Department takes third look at Alpha Omega’s $10B Evolve protest

The department takes another corrective action after the contractor challenges its exclusion from the enterprise IT contract.

Contracts

8(a) program faces unprecedented pressure from Trump administration attacks

Defenders of the small business contracting initiative say it enables rapid procurement, can meet administration priorities and the administration is overstating fraud concerns.

Contracts

Air Force Research Lab opens proposal window for $10B vehicle

This will be the lab's central mechanism for acquiring research-and-development support on behalf of the entire Air Force.