Federal Procurement, Other Topics
VA locks in $10 billion EHR deal with Cerner
21 May, 2018
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After a sudden announcement of a $10 billion, sole-source contract with Cerner last year for a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, then-Secretary of the VA Shulkin faced questions from other industry members and Congress over the decision. After the dismissal of Secretary Shulkin in March and reports of shortcomings with the new Cerner-led EHR system at DOD this month, acting-Secretary of the VA Robert Wilkie announced that the department had finally signed the Cerner contract on May 17th, 2018....
Federal Procurement, Other Topics
Supply chain becomes next cybersecurity focus
16 May, 2018
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After the government’s swift efforts to remove Kaspersky products from federal IT systems, DHS reported that all federal agencies have removed Kaspersky software from their systems. DHS is now reportedly focusing on the supply chain for IT products to ensure Kaspersky software is not embedded in products in early stages of the supply chain. Other agencies are also planning standards for supply chain risk management, and Congress has drafted requirements in a funding bill for FY19 for certain agencies to consult...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
JEDI faces more scrutiny, possible funding controls
10 May, 2018
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While we continue covering the DOD Cloud Executive Steering Group’s (CESG) multi-billion dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud acquisition as it moves through the procurement process, the House Armed Services Committee has now drafted legislation using the FY19 National Defense Authorization Act, which could limit funding for JEDI until DOD submits a detailed explanation for the program to the congressional defense committees. In the FY19 NDAA draft, released by Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), no more than 50% of...
Federal Procurement, Other Topics
DISA announces network upgrade
01 May, 2018
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On April 25th, the Defense Information Systems Agency announced a new upgrade to DOD’s enterprise network known as the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN). The new upgrade, named the Next Generation Optical Transport, will provide a huge bandwidth boost to the network, from 10 GB per second to 100 GB per second, as well as provide “improved infrastructure resiliency, service delivery node resiliency, encryption, and transitions critical legacy components to an internet protocol-based Ethernet infrastructure.” DISA tied to the effort, to be completed...
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CWA files more GDIT wage theft complaints
26 Apr, 2018
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On Monday, April 23rd, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) announced in a press release a new complaint to the Department of Labor on behalf of General Dynamics IT (GDIT) employees, alleging the company misclassified and, in turn, underpaid call center employees working under a call center contract for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CWA estimated the wages owed could exceed $100 million since the start of the contract in 2013. The contract for “Contact Center Operations”...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
DOD planning another big Cloud opp: DEOS
23 Apr, 2018
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UPDATE: On April 24th, DISA announced the date and location for its first industry engagement regarding the new DEOS opportunity. On May 16th, from 8:15am to 9:15am, DISA officials will provide an overview of DEOS requirements at the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium in Baltimore, MD. More information can be found here. While Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) was releasing draft legislation to eliminate the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) by 2021, DISA released a Draft RFP for a new, massive $8 billion...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
Coast Guard EHR to be incorporated into DOD initiative
16 Apr, 2018
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After EZGovOpps covered the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) decision to move to a Cerner-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) system, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced its intention to issue a contract modification to DOD’s huge $4.3 billion MHS GENESIS EHR contract, in order to incorporate US Coast Guard EHR efforts into their own. In the announcement on April 6th, the DHA contracting office provided a timeline of developments since MHS GENESIS was awarded in 2015, seemingly to provide background on what led to...
Federal Procurement, Other Topics
DOD ends March with big spike in Foreign Military Sales
10 Apr, 2018
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On the last business day in March this year, DOD ended the month with a huge spike in announcements of major foreign military sales (FMS). In total, the 13 contract awards and modifications totaled over $2.2 billion, for work from 8 contractors. The highest value contract awarded that day went to Boeing for “long-lead non-recurring engineering required to develop a baseline configuration for the production and delivery of 22 F/A-18E and 6 F/A-18F Super Hornets,” along with long-lead radar warning receivers...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
FBI’s ITSSS ramps up, with quick schedule planned
02 Apr, 2018
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LATEST UPDATE: At the April 30th Industry Day for the ITSSS re-compete, the FBI gave more information on the original procurement and expectations for the new opportunity, including the potential for a brand-new program name. Read more about the Industry Day presentation below. The Draft Statement of Work is expected in mid-June. UPDATE: The FBI released its RFI for ITSSS on April 11th. The RFI stated that the agency expects a format very similar to the current ITSSS iteration, with a...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
First phase completed in GSA e-commerce initiative
26 Mar, 2018
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While covering DLA’s continued work on their e-commerce portal, ECAT, we also discussed the online procurement portals created and hosted by GSA, like AutoChoice and eBuy. Now, after a new legislative mandate, GSA has started a new initiative to utilize commercial e-commerce portals for federal procurement. Just last week, GSA announced the completion of “Phase I” of the new initiative: the implementation plan. As we discussed in 2017, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been used as a vehicle...