The Defense Health Agency announced awards for a $960 million indefinite–delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract on Thursday, for “qualified clerical, certified, specialized and technical medical support services,” as a 100% small business set-aside. DHA released the RFP in June 2017 to procure the tools and labor to support “medical support services for routine staffing, temporary increases in workload, new mission support, reorganization support, limited duration need, start-up/shut-down needs, and workforce fluctuations,” to locations across CONUS, Guam, and Puerto Rico. With a primary NAICS...

On May 17th, the Federal Acquisition Service released a new notice regarding GSA’s planned effort with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to “modernize the Payroll and Work Schedule and Leave Management (WSLM) ecosystem.” With a potential ceiling over $2.5 billion in a 10 to 13 year period of performance, NewPay is shaping up to be a major undertaking for any Schedule 70  contract holders who win the new opportunity, which will require a cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

UPDATE: On March 31st, NITAAC released the final list of SDVOSB awardees. The final list holds 2 less contractors than the pre-award announcement, with a final total of 38 awardees. LATEST UPDATE: The CIO-SP3 SDVOSB awards have already been hit with their first protest. Pro-Sphere Tek, Inc. filed a protest on April 5th, with a GAO decision scheduled for July 6th, according to the GAO docket.   After covering GWAC’s and the increase in competition, CIO-SP3 SB has come up as a...