UPDATE: The Navy has announced that it is pushing the award of the NGEN-R contracts to November and December 2018 for the respective hardware and services contracts. However, the Navy is promising increased industry interaction for this opportunity in that extended time frame.  UPDATE: The Navy has released additional documents including a number of “Process Guides” outlining how it will evaluate contractor performance in areas ranging from “Asset Management” to “Service Level Management.” Comments from the industry are welcomed by...

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)...

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...

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...

Update as of January 10, 2017: The Air Force has confirmed that SBEAS will be a 100% set-aside. Importantly, SBEAS will implement a new SBA rule regarding subcontracting: a small-business prime contractor who subcontracts the first-tier to a  “similarly situated entity” — that is, a similar small-business in the same SBA program — that work will not be counted towards the subcontracting work percentage limitations. This is an attempt to spark cooperation between small-businesses in the same program, and keep...

GSA’s IT Schedule 70 Contract, as of October 1, 2016, includes four new Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services (HACS) Special Item Numbers (SINs) as a part of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) implemented by President Obama in February 2016. This presents brand new opportunities for companies offering cybersecurity services to enter a booming market– the federal government is looking to spend $19 billion on cybersecurity in Fiscal Year 2017 alone. For an understanding of the new SINs and to learn...