06-29-2021: The U.S. Navy has chosen nine companies for a potential eight-year, $249.7 million contract to help the Navy design and produce unmanned hardware and software platforms. The Department of Defense has explained these awardees will compete for task orders to provide technical support services for unmanned waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures systems. The aforementioned technical support includes the following services: specification and design, fabrication, installation, test and evaluation, fielding, maintenance, training, and configuration and program management of hardware and...

6-23-21 The General Services Administration (GSA) has selected the initial 426 awardees for the fourth-generation 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services, aka STARS III GWAC. The STARS III solicitation’s purpose is acquiring IT services and solutions from 8(a) small businesses. This includes emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotic process automation. It entered the Sources Sought stage almost a year ago on August 9, 2020. Thereafter, the contract has expanded beyond the initial draft to a $50-billion...

5/20/21 You might be wondering where the NIH Information Technology and Acquisition Assessment Center’s (NITAAC) CIO-SP4 IT services vehicle’s final solicitation is. You are not alone. With a ceiling of $40 billion, many firms are eyeing this GWAC closely. Like with most things delayed or cancelled, COVID is mostly to blame as it slowed down NIH’s approval of the contract’s business case. Like dominos, this caused a delay in getting approval from the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Procurement Center Representative...

This past Friday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) selected awardees for its 10 year, 2-billion-dollar Business Oriented Software Solutions (BOSS) opportunity (solicitation number ACQ-20-0775, originally ACQ-19-1870 to). The following five companies were chosen for the project: Booz Allen Hamilton (Contract #1333BJ21D00280001) 8283 Greensboro Drive McLean, VA 22102 Halvik Corporation (Contract #1333BJ21D00280002) 1600 Spring Hill Road, STE 240 Vienna VA 22182 RIVA Solutions, Inc. (Contract #1333BJ21D00280003) 8000 Westpark Dr. STE 450 McLean, VA 22102 Science Applications International Corporation (Contract...

The IRS plans to combine the administration of a portion of its mission critical systems into a single governmentwide acquisition vehicle (GWAC) with a ceiling of $2.6 billion and a performance period of seven years. The task order is a one-year base ordering period, four one-year optional ordering periods, and two one-year award term option periods earned from meeting performance obligations. The agency is planning on a single prime award. The awardee will be expected to deliver IT services across...

2/25/21 The General Services Administration (GSA) 2GIT is a large BPA with a contract duration of five years and a ceiling of $5.5 billion. 2GIT stands for Second-Generation Information Technology. It is used to make blank purchase agreements (BPAs) to provide the government a quick and effective method to order IT hardware and software commodities, as well as supplies and services at reduced prices. The first set of awards took place in November 2019, however due to extensive protests the...

2-11-21 Back in November of 2018, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Department kicked off the Veteran Enterprise Contracting for Transformation and Operational Readiness (VECTOR) contract vehicle.  It’s a professional services contract for business with a ceiling of $25 billion and has a potential to last 10 years. This was after protests stymied the program for nearly a year. Eventually, 75 service disabled, veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) would be awarded in total. These awardees are separated into six primary task area groups...

The U.S. Army released a request for information (RFI) for the Common Hardware Systems (CHS-6) contract back on February 14, 2020 and just recently posted a second RFI on January 26, 2021. Based on the previous contract, the length will be five-years and have a value of approximately $4 billion. It is for commercial IT hardware and services and was previously a single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract held by General Dynamics. It was awarded in September of 2018 and will expire...