Federal MATOCs awarded by Army USACE for Covid-19 Response
03 Apr, 2020
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has increased the capacity for awarded firms to construct alternate care facilities. These facilities will support Northwestern Division (NWD), United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and outlying areas as a response to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) outbreak. The total capacity expansion for the firm-fixed price and cost-reimbursement MATOCs is $10 Billion USD. The initial capacity will expand from $1,284,999,999 to $11,284,999,999. The category of funds anticipated to be employed on task orders will be Federal...
CIO-SP4 Draft Released by NITAAC
31 Mar, 2020
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CIO-SP4, standing for Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners IV, is an upcoming IT products and services contract vehicle with an estimated value of $20 billion. NITAAC (NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center) has released their draft of the solicitation right on time. Given the size, we anticipate there will be much buzz as contractors review the evaluation criteria and start to determine both their bid and potential teaming arrangements. CIO-SP4 has a 15-year period of performance. Technically it’s...
NIH Releases Final CIO-SP3 SB Awardees
18 Mar, 2020
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CIO-SP3 Small Business (SB) is one of the vehicles in the $20 billion CIO-SP3 program. This was created to provide custom information technology (IT) integration and outsourcing support for five different socio-economic set-asides. This vehicle has been relatively successful since its original awarding in 2012, with a number of small businesses outgrowing their SB status while providing CIO-SP3 services. Agencies leverage this contract vehicle to purchase IT services in areas such as systems integration and software development, imaging, healthcare technology,...
GSA Releases the ASTRO Consolidated IDIQ Sponsored by DoD
03 Mar, 2020
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Continuing the trend of Program/IDIQ consolidation in the federal space, The GSA released the ASTRO IDIQ. ASTRO is MAC vehicle created to meet the requirements of warfighters, scoped in collaboration with U.S. Combatant Commands. It is intended to supplement DoD capabilities to ensure interoperability, flexibility and assurance on the modern-day battlefield. Sponsored by the Department of Defense (DoD), The program will be managed by GSA’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM). ASTRO is a FEDSIM-only program (not Government-wide), and...
CMS SPARC Evaluation Revised after Successful Protest by Accenture
24 Feb, 2020
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The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has been looking for a vendor to continue supporting the Healthcare.gov website. The site provides a health information exchange (HIE) portal that requires significant vendor support/maintenance. The latest 5-year contract clocks in at $398 million. Accenture is the incumbent who began support services for the portal in 2014 with a $45 million contract due to difficulties experienced by CGI Federal during the launch phase. The company then received a $536 million contract...
GSA Dispatches Mass Modification Notifications to Schedule Holders
06 Feb, 2020
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Recently the General Services Administration (GSA) has been dispatching Mass Modification notifications to schedule-holders. These notices describe the second phase of modifications that consolidate 24 Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) into one single schedule for products, services, and solutions. The consolidated MAS solicitation, which was issued last October, has a streamlined format and new categories and Special Item Numbers (SINs). Everything seems to be on schedule with the mass mods going out on January 30th, associating contract terms with the single...
Naval Research Laboratory SDVOSB Industry Day
06 Feb, 2020
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For Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) contracts expiring this year, 92% were awarded previously with no set-aside designated, and according to our analytics, only 0.012% were awarded to SDVOSB. The NRL is looking to boost their low SDVOSB set-aside rates dramatically with the help of Virginia PTAC and just announced its first Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Industry Day. The Industry Day will be taking place on March 19th at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. The program is geared towards SDVOSB but all...
NOAA Completes ProTech Services Awards to 22 Contractors
04 Feb, 2020
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) completed the final set of awards on ProTech, a service-related contract vehicle. Twenty-two companies in total were awarded for the “Weather” portion of the vehicle, which is NOAA’s mandated strategic sourcing vehicle to consolidate services into a single procurement. The Weather track is one of four portions of ProTech. The others include Oceans, Satellite and Fisheries. ProTech has a ceiling of $3 billion for its two-year base and three option years, and a...
SBA Changes Small Business Eligibility Calculation
16 Jan, 2020
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On January 6th, the Small Business Association (SBA) has changed how it calculates eligibility of the Small Business set-aside for companies. Previously, the SBA used a three-year revenue average to determine if a company is indeed a “small business”. The Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018 mandated that the SBA use a five-year revenue average instead. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for small business remains to be seen. Those that support the new rule...
Dept. of State Supply Chain Management (SCM) Services Contract Opportunity – 2020
10 Jan, 2020
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A new supply chain management (SCM) services opportunity with principal NAICS 493190 was posted yesterday by the Department of State (DOS). It is currently in the Sources Sought/RFI stage. The place of performance is located at the Department of State Annex 34 (SA-34) located at 7374 Boston Boulevard, Springfield VA 22153, nearby warehouse facilities, and potentially limited overseas support trips. The Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) is looking for contractors to provide an integrated life cycle approach to the Information...