🌟OASIS+/CMS PIMMS/EPA IT BPA/Navy SLSS Protest📰; IRS/VA/DoD/DOL/DOI/DHA Execs on the move; USDA ITBOT/NIH BPIMSS/DFAS DIFS/45M USAF GREAT awards⚡

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🌟The Peel Podcast: Transforming Healthcare: Former Navy CMO’s Mission to Revolutionize Patient Care – Shelley McGuire chats with Kevin Dorrance, retired Navy veteran and CEO of TransformCare, about fixing what’s broken in healthcare and how the DHA and VHA are uniquely positioned to lead change. Listen here.

🐝The Morning Buzz:

• Protest: One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+) WOSB Set-Aside
• Kristen Blandford: State Dept. notice rescinding Stop Work Orders on several awards
• NSF begins reinstating probationary employees
• Air Force Software Factory Kessel Run Is Pivoting. Not Everyone Is Happy
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services focused women-owned small businesses to know – Here we spotlight the CMS focused firms drawing interest of late. Meet them here.
• 🐓Waking up in Vegas this morning? HIMSS events you don’t want to miss:
  • Wendy Piscitelli: Last Chance to RSVP for Carahsoft’s Networking Reception
  • Jim Kyung-Soo Liew: SoKat co-hosts exclusive AI & Innovation Party with Digital Transformation leaders

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

• VA to terminate 585 non-mission-critical or duplicative contracts
• #DOGE says OPM budgeted $370M for IT spending in FY2025. They believe this value can be reduced by ~80% while maintaining equivalent levels of service
• NOAA terminates space, climate and marine life advisory committees

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

• Neil McDonnell: DOGE is Firing Government Contractors – Here’s What You Can Do to Survive?
• Karen F. Lee and Julie Cerqueira launch FedsForward platform to support next stage transition

📢 Federal IT and Consulting Contract Terminations – To help you navigate a rapidly changing landscape, Andrea has compiled a list of several recent and notable contracts that fit certain criteria and that were identified by the government as being Terminated for Convenience (full or partial). More here.

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• Next steps for $240M EPA Multi-Regional IT Support Services (MRITSS) BPA expected soon
• The Silent Shred – Check out contract terminations for CDC, HUD, DOL, DOJ, USDA, VA.

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

• DOI taps Zero Trust Lead as new Deputy CIO as DOI Deputy Chief Information Officer departs for new challenge
• DOL CIO Lou Charlier retires
• Katherine “Katie” Arrington named DoD Chief Information Officer
• Dr. Mariela Roca sworn in as VA Executive Director for the Center for Minority Veterans
• David Smith Named Acting Defense Health Agency Director
• Maximus recruits IRS Technology SME Ron Leidner
• Optum Serve subsidiary recruits emerging CMS RDS leader
• 3 Reasons Consulting recruits former DHA DADIO/J6 Chief to serve as CTO
• SSA and former VA Cyber leader launches new SDVOSB
• RIVA Solutions adds Joy Langley to drive DOC, ITA, Census and USPTO portfolios
• Bryan Bearden Promoted to Chief Operating Officer – Sumaria Systems
• Trump nominates Paul Dabbar as Commerce deputy secretary

🍦Catching up with Andrea Snader, new Health and DoD Sector President at Edgewater Federal – Andrea shares more about her move to this flexible, agile, and fearless firm looking to bring measured results for customers through a commitment to investment and expansion. Read on here.

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

• Fresh Protest challenges CMS actions on $30+M PIMMS Re-Compete
• US Navy Protest Filed: NAVAIR Command Strategic Leadership Support Services
• DOJ Protest Denied: FBI Solicitation Number MPO-TEM-SCOR-4 | IMTAS

Been heads down working on a proposal? Track all the latest protest activity here.

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⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• USDA: iLabs scores FPAC IT Business Operations Tool (ITBOT) Application support contract
• NIH NIAID Business Process and Information Management Support Services (BPIMSS) Bridge task on CIO-SP3
• NIH Contract Award: NIAID DAIDS/TRP Professional, Scientific, Technical Support Services
• CBP OCIO inks Informatica Software Maintenance, Subscription, Cloud Services contract
• FBI Contract Award: GrayKey Offline/Mobile Premier Solution to Magnet Forensics
• USAF: ARS scores $45M Graduate Research Education and Technology Support contract
• NGA: In advance of Archimedes competition, $1B Integration and System Engineering IDIQ to be extended
• DOD: IBM beats out 7 to win $15M DFAS Defense Integrated Finance System Re-Architecture
• Army: Contract Award: Butte MEPS Applicant Management Services (AMS) task
• US Navy Contract Award: Information Technology Engineering and Support Services

🔍Looking for a specific award or other news? Check out OS’s Advanced Search Function here Did we miss highlighting your key win? Message us at support@orangeslices.ai.

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

• Core4ce Appoints Navy Vet Doug Small to Advisory Board
• Armis Doubles Down as it Finalizes “In Process” Designation for FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 Authorizations
• Sky Solutions earns prestigious Pega Government Elite status

📢 Most Viewed Comment:

• Re: Nimbus – takes its role as a trusted and independent customer advisor very seriously…Nimbus goes above and beyond its responsibilities in collaboration to ensure their success while staying true to the agency’s vision and goals. More here.

🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• CISA Solicitation Update: Sector Risk Management Agency Operations & Analysis Support – No Longer Planned
• CISA Solicitation Update: Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Planning, Operations & Analysis – No Longer Planned
• CISA Solicitation Update: Council Management Program Management and Operations – No longer Planned
• Bureau of Indian Affairs RFQ: Native American Student Information System Recompete
• Army RFI: Inventory Management Software
• Navy Sources Sought: SURFLANT HQ IT Support
• US Marine Corps RFI: Prepositioning Plans and Data Support (P&DS)

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Tria Federal: Transforming How Federal Health Agencies Approach Their Critical Missions 
Leveraging 25 years of industry experience, Tria Federal CEO Tim Borchert shares his perspective on what he calls “the healthcare trilemma” – the constant struggle balancing the trade-offs between cost, quality, and access – and the unprecedented challenges and opportunities in federal modernization, particularly as agencies face growing pressure to transform their digital operations. Read on here.

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