Contracts

Pricing challenge falls short in $1.3B Treasury cloud competition

A price realism evaluation was apparently not needed since this cloud brokerage contract known as TCloud is fixed-price, according to a newly-unsealed bid protest decision.

Contracts

Court fight over $60B Veterans Affairs IT vehicle starts taking shape

All protests involving the T4NG2 contract are now a single case at the Court of Federal Claims.

Contracts

Air Force chooses 46 firms for nearly $1B weapons testing tech contract

Awardees will compete to provide "highly-specialized technologies" for the testing and evaluation work.

Companies

Shift5 expands its investor network

Booz Allen Hamilton's venture capital arm is among the newly-revealed names that are investing in the cyber company.

Contracts

Air Force chooses 3 dozen for $32B training system recompete

This is iteration number four of the Training Systems Acquisition vehicle that covers a broad range of products.

Contracts

Army awards 12 seats on $450M modernization vehicle

Awardees will work on enabling and accelerating the branch's idea of overmatch for gaining overwhelming advantages over adversaries.

Contracts

Booz Allen dinged for management plan in lost $2.5B NSA contract

The National Security Agency liked CACI International's bid for the FocusedFox cyber and intelligence contract for more reasons than just price.

Companies

Booz Allen's cloudy crystal ball for the market and AI

CEOs of publicly-traded companies everywhere are getting questions from investors on the debt ceiling crisis. This time it was Booz Allen Hamilton's leader who had to acknowledge the situation.

Contracts

Booz Allen touts $919M award for 'Soldier-as-a-System'

The goal is to further advance technologies for this concept that includes items worn, carried, or used by soldiers.

Contracts

CACI can now book its $2.4B NSA win

With the last remaining protest denied, CACI can move ahead on this intelligence and cybersecurity contract called FocusedFox that is now in the win column.

Contracts

IRS adds more primes to resolve protests

The IRS faced a pair of protests but to move forward with a set of BPAs for modernization services, the agency added the protesters to the contract.

Contracts

Leidos, Booz Allen keep pushing for $1.3B cloud contract

The Treasury Department's TCloud blanket purchase agreement was won by SAIC, but the two challengers claim the evaluation was improper.

Contracts

FBI to rethink BPA program following protests

A "clarification" from the agency on the solicitation means the eliminated bidders are back into the competition.

Contracts

Labor rates sunk Leidos' bid for $2.4B NSA contract

A decision on Booz Allen Hamilton's protest is still pending, but the Government Accountability Office's ruling on Leidos' protest gives a first peek inside the National Security Agency's evaluation.

Companies

Booz Allen invests in 'responsible' AI company

The government technology company's ventures arm backs a startup who designs its artificial intelligence platform to enable compliance, transparency and auditability.

Contracts

NGA awards $900M mission support contract

We know all the names of the 13 awardees, but given the classified nature of the work there is little publicly available.

Opinion

Protests may complicate awards for $60B VA IT contract

A pair of protests land just as proposals are due for the Veterans Affairs Department's recompete of its go-to technology services vehicle.

Contracts

SAIC faces challenges to $1.3B Treasury cloud win

Two disappointed bidders are protesting the award that consolidates all of the Treasury Department's cloud buying activities.

Companies

Counter-unmanned tech and chips highlight this week's venture activity

Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin detail the latest moves out of their investment funds for emerging tech and companies that make it.

Contracts

NSA again chooses CACI for $2.4B award and protestors return

The National Security Agency has now twice chosen CACI International for the network analysis contract and is now facing a second round of protests.