Contracts

GSA makes two more batches of OASIS+ awards

The government-wide professional services vehicle now has 698 unrestricted primes and 1,563 small business winners with more to come.

Opinion

To survive the new GovCon environment, your people are your ultimate competitive edge

Five critical blind spots that threaten you contracts, and how to transform your team before it is too late, according to BD expert Nic Coppings.

Contracts

Spending and workforce cuts will harm VA’s modernization work, Democrats say

Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said cuts across VA are forcing the department “to decide between keeping staff on the floor, and investing in expensive equipment that may sit idle without enough personnel to operate it.”

Contracts

VA names 9 medical facilities that will receive new EHR in 2026

The department said it plans to deploy the modernized electronic health record at a total of 13 sites next year following a pause on most rollouts of the software that was instituted in April 2023.

Contracts

DARPA launches competition for $700M 'episodic mission IT' vehicle

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has no cap in the number of awards for this contract that covers application analysis and cybersecurity work, among other areas.

Contracts

Your contract termination has been reversed. Now what?

Agencies can call, and are calling, contractors back to work after telling them their services are no longer required.

Contracts

GSA chooses 9 for $919M supply chain monitoring software pact

The General Services Administration designed this blanket purchase agreement for other agencies to acquire tools that can help them vet suppliers and monitor for other risks to supply chains.

Contracts

GSA, DOD preview on-ramp for $1.8B readiness support contract

Roughly a dozen primes are currently involved in this contract called PRISM and the Defense Department wants to know if more small businesses can join them.

Contracts

Army nixes planned $10B agile software development contract

There will be no solicitation for the New Modern Software Development contract vehicle, and therefore no award.

Contracts

Lawmakers try again with software licensing bill

This marks the third Congress in which the bipartisan bill has been introduced.

Contracts

Leidos fights for another chance at $89B national biomedical lab contract

The company has supported the only federally-funded research and development center focused on medical research for 17 years, but a challenger has wrestled the contract away.

Contracts

Army pauses bundled recompete of professional services, IT vehicles

The so-called MAPS contract is yet another big-ticket Army tech acquisition to enter a holding pattern two months into the second Trump administration.

Contracts

DOD launches microelectronics research, development recompete

In keeping with past versions, the Defense Microelectronics Activity has structured the new contract to be broad in scope as it looks to bring in more modern computer chips for military systems.

Contracts

Q2 Impact wins legal fight to secure OASIS+ seat

The company can now proceed on pursuing task orders following a judge's ruling that it was eligible for the government-wide professional services contract vehicle after all.

Companies

Adapt or perish: How contractors can plot their courses through an uncertain market

A panel of industry veterans points to technology pivots and partnerships as among their keys to thriving in a transforming landscape.

Contracts

DOD starts to build $140M contract for IT, automation program support

One category of small businesses will be eligible to bid for the contract to work with the Pentagon's Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer.

Contracts

GSA launches FedRAMP revamp

One major goal of the changes is to speed up the timeframe for agencies to get access to the latest technology quickly, “not months or years down the road,” the agency’s acting administrator said.

Contracts

USCIS moves closer to software development recompete launch date

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency gives industry a date for when to expect a final solicitation and provides more detail on how it will conduct the competition.

Contracts

GSA to ‘quadruple' in size to centralize procurement across the government

The head of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service told employees at a Thursday meeting that the agency will “do about $400 billion” in procurement management under this effort.

Contracts

FedRAMP to announce major overhaul next week

The initiative would seek to automate much of the cloud security program’s approval workflow and shift more control to the private sector.