SAIC captures contract mod with Marine Corps

Science Applications International Corp. has won a $12.7 million contract modification with the Navy for an option calling for operations and support services.

Under the firm-fixed-price contract, SAIC will continue its work with the Marine Corps Enterprise Information Technology Services, or MCEITS, Operations Capability and Enterprise IT Center Operational Support Services and Systems Integration Environment, according to a Defense Department announcement.

Can you survive two more years of budget chaos?

If you listened to just the first part of Stan Soloway’s talk about the government market at the Grant Thornton contractor event this morning, you’d walk away thinking that there is little hope.

The issues with procurement and the political process are systemic, and it isn’t possible to identify where the political pressure will come from to fix the problems.

ITT Exelis nabs Navy base operations contract

ITT Exelis has won a $5.7 million task order contract with the U.S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command for Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia, Naples, Italy, to provide base operations support services at Deveselu Air Base near Caracal, Romania.

The firm-fixed-price task order contract has a one-year base and two option years that extend work until December 2015.

Under the contract, ITT Exelis will provide base operations and administration, fire and emergency services, supply services, housing and environmental operations.

RFP released for $150M small-biz contract vehicle

The State Department has released a request for proposals to create a $150 million small-business vehicle through which it can acquire desktop computers and monitors.

The products that the State Department will need are:

• 22-inch LCD monitors
• 2.5-inch removable hard drives
• 3.5-inch internal hard drives
• Desktop network fiber NIC
• Desktop fire wire card
• PKI Card Reader
• RFID Tags

Lockheed wins options for electronic warfare work

Lockheed Martin has won a $30 million contract modification to exercise the firm-fixed-price options for the Navy’s surface electronic warfare improvement program.

The Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 2 System is an acquisition program to upgrade the existing AN/SLQ-32(V) Electronic Warfare System, the Defense Department said in a release.

Do you know how to thrive under LPTA?

As I moderated our webinar on lowest price technically acceptable contracting , I was mostly in listening mode; after all, we had two experts who know the ins and outs of the market better than I do. Read More

5 ways to kill bad morale

We’re told Aristotle once said, “nature abhors a vacuum.” It’s the principle of horror vacui in physics. And the same is true of human nature. In the absence of information, people fill in the blanks. Often, they fill in a lack of information with negative rumor and speculation.

Why risk increasing misinformation among your employees? Why not fill the vacuum with the truth?

SAIC plans layoffs, cost cutting

Science Applications International Corp. might not have a federal contract renewed, which could result in 150 layoffs in its Falls Church, Va., office as a result, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday.

Army exploring enterprise-wide content management system

The Army has kicked off the market research phase of a possile contrct to provide enterprise-level content management services.

The Army wants to learn about a number of specific things, including:

• Enterprise-level content management solutions that enable large enterprises like the Army to create a central repository for many different types of data, including e-mail, file sharing, photos, videos, digital meeting records, and others
• How to provide integration points for information and data across applications, collaboration tools, and office products
• How to enable data collection, discovery and information lifecycle management

Raytheon restructures its business units

Raytheon has combined its Intelligence and Information Systems and Technical Services businesses to form a new business called Intelligence, Information and Services. The company also shifted some other pieces of business into its other three business units in a move to streamline its businesses and increase productivity.