The General Services Administration's strategy for more unified technology purchases starts with baseline pricing for products, then eyes resellers as providing nearly everything else agencies need.
An industry lawyer anticipates more bid protests will likely allege that agencies misused AI in the procurement process but that could be hard to prove if agencies don’t report their use of AI as “high-impact.”
The company will continue supporting the General Services Administration's Pegasys financial management system and multi-tenant shared application environment.
JAAW Group’s protest also was dinged because it cited a non-existent case, which the Government Accountability Office cited as evidence of careless use of artificial intelligence.
The four-year-old large satellite maker is pushing to build as many as 100 of them per year, some of which are contracted to be a part of the Golden Dome missile defense system.
This contract focuses on Space Force’s efforts to provide operators an environment of different types of ranges ranges for their test and training work.
The company wanted the Army’s corrective action to go further, but the Government Accountability Office disagrees. That clears the Army to look at revised proposals and make a new award decision.
An analysis of GovTribe data finds non-competitive contract awards are down 20% through July, but they claimed a bigger slice of all federal contracts.
National security agencies said the devices could create supply-chain vulnerabilities, threaten critical infrastructure and enable surveillance or remote manipulation.
Contractors who cling to labor hours and PowerPoint pitches will almost certainly lose out. But the government’s requirements process still looks like the biggest bottleneck to change.
“This partnership with CORAS expands the range of AI-enabled capabilities available to agencies as they evaluate solutions that support mission and operational requirements,” according to Federal Acquisition Service acting Commissioner Laura Stanton.
The Defense Information Systems Agency agrees to conduct market research and redo its acquisition strategy after GDIT challenged plans to expand the IT services contract’s scope.
