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...

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...

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...

The Army awarded 22 companies for the up to 10-year, $5.1 billion Global Tactical Advanced Communication Systems II (GTACS II). Nearly all companies that provided proposals were awarded by the Army Contracting Command, with only two not selected. GTACS II is a follow-on vehicle to the $10 billion GTACS which was awarded to 20 companies in 2012. Companies that were on the original vehicle and not on this second iteration include: CACI, L3 Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Rockwell...

The $13.4 billion Small Business Enterprise Applications Solutions contract vehicle known as SBEAS is a follow on to the Air Force’s original NetCents 2 Application Services Small Business contract. The Air Force will use SBEAS to acquire IT systems, software development, cybersecurity, configuration management, deployment, technology modernization, training, operations, commercial off-the-shelf product management, business analysis for IT programs, information display services, and data/information services. Like the original NetCents, it has been fraught with protests, including 37 total protests from 27...

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...