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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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