The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun its course in obtaining approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for CIO-SP4 IT products and services contract vehicle. CIO-SP4, standing for Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners IV, has an estimated value of $20 billion. This seems like a realistic ceiling given NIH’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) awarded $6 billion in FY2019. That spending includes the vehicles CIO-SP3; CIO-SP3 Small Business; and Chief Information Officer...

GSA’s OASIS Small Business (OASIS SB) professional services multi-agency contract vehicle is finally moving ahead after settling the final outstanding protests. If you’re not already familiar with OASIS SB and the latest on-ramp, please take a look at our previous write-up in June. The General Services Administration can now proceed with awarding the final small businesses. Companies ADVENTureOne and Apogee Engineering disagreed with how GSA would rate purchasing and estimating systems, as well as joint-venture systems, certifications and clearances. With...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 17 companies on the six-year, $5 billion RMADA 2.0 contract. RMADA 2.0 is the second iteration of the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design and Analysis IDIQ for data and research services to support federal health care programs. Awardees will assist CMS design, implement and operate models authorized under the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other health reform laws. The umbrella analytic and technical services contract has both commercial business...

As you likely already know, OASIS is a massive ten-year multi-agency contract (MAC) with an approximate ceiling value of $60 Billion. It has several pools of IDIQ contracts and has subsets for companies that are small business (SB), 8(a) and unrestricted. It makes available both integrated professional services and products and allows commercial and noncommercial requirements for agencies including: Air Force, Army, Navy Air System Command, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency,...

SEC One OIT On-Ramping New Contractors in 2019 The Securities and Exchange Commission’s One Office of Information Technology (aka SEC One OIT, which rolls off the tongue much better) is a strategic sourcing vehicle which provides a streamlined process to procure a comprehensive suite of IT services and solutions to support systems and software development in a variety of environments and infrastructures. If you’re an information technology provider registered on SAM.gov to do business with the federal government, then you’ll...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office officially ruled against Booz Allen Hamilton’s protest over an OASIS task order worth over $700 million for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for the Department of the Air Force (AF) Air Combat Command (ACC). The contract that was disputed is a new procurement with no incumbent, however it is a consolidation of several existing contracts. Booz Allen challenged the agency’s evaluation of their proposal and the source selection decision. To offer a background, on November 2,...

OASIS is a massive ten-year multi-agency contract (MAC) with a value of $60 Billion. It has several pools of IDIQ contracts and has subsets for companies that are small business (SB), 8(a) and unrestricted. It makes available both integrated professional services and products and allows commercial and noncommercial requirements for agencies including: Air Force, Army, Navy Air System Command, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency, the Defense Logistics Agency, and Centers for...

Emily Murphy, Administrator at the General Services Administration (GSA), stated in November that the agency would be merging multiple award schedules (MAS) to mitigate any redundancies in contracting resources and simplify processes for federal customers who are already relying on multiple schedules to service their needs. This includes the Schedule 70, a massive schedule centered around information technology. MAS vendors provide over 10 million commercial products and services to both federal and state/local agencies. Approximately $31 billion dollars are spent...

Big tech firms like Google and Apple aren’t the only ones investing in Artificial Intelligence. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) just awarded 57 companies on its new 5-year Intelligent Automation/Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) contract. This IDIQ has a value of $49 million and can be used not only by DHHS but other federal agencies as well. The 57 winners on this IDIQ will be bidding on several functional areas including: applied ideation and design support, engineering and process...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded 39 companies for the second-generation Tactical Communications contract (TACCOM II). The ceiling on the contract is $3 billion and is expected to last 5 years. The first-generation TACCOM also had a ceiling of $3 billion, but the actual spend was roughly $774 million per EZGovOpps data. Agencies other than DHS can leverage TACCOM II to order delivery of commodity items as they are made available from General Services Administration (GSA) and commercial catalogs....