NDAA small business provisions for FY 2017
28 Dec, 2016
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The annual National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, was signed into law by President Obama just before Christmas. That makes now the perfect time to take a closer look at the bill, and find out what NDAA small business provisions will affect your company in Fiscal Year 2017. New SBA Reporting Requirements The Small Business Administration will soon be required under the NDAA to count two new metrics in their reports on small business contracting: Small businesses that were purchased by another...
NASA HITSS III… Coming Soon?
21 Dec, 2016
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Update: In July, NASA released the Request for Proposal (RFP) for HITSS III. NASA will follow a Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee (CPIF) procurement model combined into an IDIQ contract, with the ability to issue CPIF as well as Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF) task orders. The contract will have a 5-year total period of performance, starting from a separate 45-day phase in period based on a Firm-Fixed Price contract. Importantly, NASA is emphasizing that contract proposals will have two pass/fail components, the company Contract Security Classification...
GAO task order protest authority reinstated. What now?
21 Dec, 2016
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President Obama has signed HR 5995, a law giving the Government Accountability Office permanent authority to oversee protests of civilian task orders over $10 million. The GAO task order protest authority has been expired since the end of FY2016 on September 30. This is good news for businesses that contract with civilian agencies. Before GAO authority was reinstated, there was almost no avenue for companies to protest task order decisions. Contractors’ only option was to go to an agency’s task...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
JE-RDAP, Another Chem-Bio Program Coming Soon
16 Dec, 2016
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UPDATE: On November 1, 2017 Army Contracting Command-Natick, Massachusetts announced the award of JE-RDAP to 170 awardees, out of 178 bids received. The awardees will share the $8,276,161,000 award with a completion date in 2027. The US Military is fielding two major contracts, worth $8.27 billion and $980 million, through the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. With both contracts centered, in part, on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE)...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
Army Seeks Proposals for $6 billion Human Resources Contract, HRSS
14 Dec, 2016
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On October 21st, US Army Contracting Command – New Jersey (ACC-NJ) released a solicitation for proposals for a new Human Resource Solutions Support (HRSS) Personnel Life-Cycle Support (PLS) contract in support of the Human Resources Solutions Project Office (HRSPO), due at 1pm on December 20, 2016. The objective of the program will be “to obtain qualified Contractors to provide support for enterprise level Human Resource (HR) Services for Department of Defense (DoD) programs and systems.” With a program ceiling exceeding...
CTRIC III: Defense Threat Reduction Agency contract alert
14 Dec, 2016
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UPDATE: DTRA released a final RFP on June 1, 2017, with submissions due on July 14, 2017. EZGovOpps will continue to monitor the procurement process for this large opportunity. Read more below: Don’t miss this multi-million dollar opportunity! On December 6th, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) released a draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the third iteration of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contract (CTRIC III). CTRIC III is a combination of CTRIC II and another DTRA program called...
Leveraging Set-Asides, Other Topics
What SBA nominee Linda McMahon means for women-owned small business
07 Dec, 2016
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World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) co-founder Linda McMahon will head the Small Business Administration, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team announced Wednesday. In a statement, Trump hailed her as “one of the country’s top female executives.” The wrestling magnate ran twice for the Senate in 2010 and 2012. Without more time in public office, McMahon’s positions on things like small business setasides are still somewhat unknown. Small women-owned government contractors, who are especially affected by the SBA, will have a lot of...
Federal Procurement, Other Topics
Performance.gov not Performing as Expected – GAO
30 Nov, 2016
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How Performance.gov Started Building upon the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, the GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA) was signed in 2010 by President Obama as a mandate for federal agencies to publish on a public website information including, but not limited to: A four-year agency strategic plan Yearly goals and priority objectives Important milestones, both yearly and quarterly, for use as performance indicators Major challenges to achieving performance goals Performance metrics, and descriptions guaranteeing the accuracy of...
Federal Procurement, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
Dive into SEWP
23 Nov, 2016
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Humble Beginnings Originally known as “Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement,” SEWP I began in 1993 as an $800 million government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) handled by NASA for federal procurement of Unix workstations. In 2001, SEWP III contracts were awarded with a value of $4 billion for a five-year term. The opportunity was divided into three small-business set-aside competitions (with two awarded to seven companies) and three 8(a) noncompeted set-asides. These competitions were based on two IT categories: Category A, which...
Leveraging Set-Asides, Programs / GWACs / IDIQs
CIO-SP3 SB: a GWAC profile
23 Nov, 2016
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Diving into the Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3 SB) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) UPDATE: To read our coverage of the new CIO-SP3 SB awards, click here. Most government contractors focus their efforts on GSA schedules or FedBizOpps solicitations. These common solutions, however, do not cover the entire contracting spectrum – you can find separate, more specialized acquisition vehicles through different agencies. One such specialized federal procurement Executive Agent is NITAAC, which runs the GWAC CIO-SP3 SB....