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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• CMS sends out RIF notices to one office – significant lack of collaboration with the career team
• The GSA Procurement Consolidation website is now live
• Internal fallout at HHS delays 10,000 firings
• CBP set to compete $100+M TASPD ATS Vetting Applications Support Services task on CIO-SP3 SB
• Eric P. Strauss: Since ITES-3S IDIQ is available to ALL Federal Agencies is it one of the top IDIQ contract(s) available?
• Luke Nascimento: Arctas: Industry Technology Partner Directory active users nearly tripled – see the top viewed profiles…
• Department of Homeland Security focused HUBZone small businesses to know – Meet them here.
• 🎯 NIH FY ’26 Recompetes – The Full List – Expiring tasks expected to draw interest – This curated list of recompete opps is designed to spark teaming conversation. Check it out here.

🎉 Events and Updates:

• Get ’em while they’re hot🔥- IGNITE ’25: Speakers confirmed for VHA, VA, NIH, DHA, DOE, Army, Space Force, Air Force Research Laboratory
• Four-Day Annual Military Health System (MHS) Conference to go as Planned

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💲#DOGE Scoop – Avert your eyes if you don’t want to watch – we get it:

• Usman Sheikh: Deloitte lost 129 Federal contracts worth $372M …. the data suggests this is just the beginning
• Abby André: The Impact Map — this interactive platform shows how Fed employment, funding, & policy affect communities.
• Billions are on the line as DOGE, GSA increase scrutiny
• Uncertainty grips HHS as employees await their fate and leadership is left in the dark: ‘It’s madness’
• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) puts all workforce on paid administrative leave Monday
• Trump administration moves to shutter mine safety offices

⚙️ It’s all about Community – Resources Page for Affected Feds and Industry: Check it out here.

The Juice🥤: These firms and agencies are gearing up to make big impact in 2025 and beyond:

• IRS cuts about 50 IT executives; Treasury elevates Jeffrey King to CIO
• Small Business Administration has a new CIO?
• USAF names Acquisition/Category Management leader Theresa Terry as Enterprise Program Support Director
• George Price, Director of OSDBU at State, Retires From Federal Service
• DHS CX lead Dana Chisnell announces departure from government
• Andrea Inserra named as President of Booz Allen’s Global Defense Sector, the company’s largest business unit
• Other industry leaders taking new roles:  Holly Ham to Pacific Square | Daryle Lademan to Leidos | Patrick Fredericks takes VP role with GDIT | TSPi recruits Brad Smolek | Mark Batis joins Gana-A’Yoo | Red Hat adds Fed Health IT Growth leader Sandi Tighe | and TISTA growing again – adds Alyssa Desmond

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🍊Other handpicked, crisp, juicy content for our Premium Sponsors/Subscribers:

• VA inches closer to resolution of $317M award challenged in Courts
• USGS shares details of $30+M Geospatial Shared Service IDIQ recompete
• The Silent Shred⚡– Today’s contract terminations at IRS and DOI. See the List here.

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🔍 ⚖ GAO and the Courts – Check out the latest:

• Protest Filed: $10M NOAA Financial System Support contract win
• Second Protest Filed: U.S. Army Materiel Command | Leader Communications, Inc. | W91RUS-25-R-AP0
• Protest Dismissed: U.S. Army Materiel Command | RS3-23-0029 | MAG Aerospace
• Protest Dismissed: US Army Foreign Military Sales initiative Programmatic Support IDIQ

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⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• VA: SDVOSB Agile Six beats out 2 to win $26M Cross Benefits Crew Task Order
• VA: SDVOSB Oddball and Wilcore JV beat out 3 to win $15M AI-enabled VA.gov Chatbot support task on SPRUCE IDIQ
• IRS: SDVOSB lands OCIO Application Development and Infrastructure-as-Code environment support contract
• Treasury: ICF wins Low-code Applications ServiceNow and Salesforce Application Development and Sustainment task
• Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF) Post-Migration Knowledge Transfer Support contract
• FEMA: SDVOSB scores Risk-Based Modeling and Data Analytics Solution support contract
• DHS: ASG awarded FLETC Enterprise IT Support Services (EITSS) contract
• CISA: Leidos awarded short term OCIO Cybersecurity Operations Support Services task
• CMS: RTI awarded $10M HOPDs and OAS CAHPS survey implementation contract
• FDA Contract Award: CVM Adverse Drug Event Reporting System Data Management support contract
• HRSA: WOSB wins BPHC Specialized Program Management Technical Assistance contract
• NIH: Avanti awarded NIEHS Science, Translation, Analysis and Research Support task
• DOJ: Effectual lands $54M Bureau of Prisons Amazon Web Services ECP support contract
• NIST funds $33M NCCoE Cybersecurity RD&E Support task through MITRE FFRDC
• NOAA: ITegrity wins NWS OCOO Performance Management Syst Support Services contract
• Army: CMS lands $11M in MEPS Applicant Management Services (AMS) tasks
• USSOCOM: EEC Solutions and Lukos JV scores Security Administration Support contract

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📢 Most Viewed Comment:

• Re: IRS pulls plug on $1.9B Enterprise Program Project Integration Services (EPPIS) BPA – … “result of the numerous protests filed with the Court of Federal Claims … take corrective action by terminating the BPA.” What are the odds this ever gets awarded? More here.

🔥 Hot Off The Presses – Announcements posted recently that are drawing interest:

• AVIAN and Attollo LLC Forge Mentor-Protege to Strengthen Defense Capabilities
• Innovate! Awarded GSA GIS Support Services contract
• REI Systems Becomes National Partner of Border Patrol Foundation

Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• CBP Forecast: $100+M TASPD ATS Vetting Applications Support Services task on CIO-SP3
• NHTSA RFI: National Emergency Medical Services Information System Technical Assistance Center Support Services
• USAF Draft RFP: All Domain Common Platform Security Cloud Engineering Network Development (ASCEND) IDIQ
• US Air Force RFI: Anchore Analyzers Alternative

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