🔥IRS DARE/450M LOC Agile/1.1B NIH NEAT/100M FDA RSS/NOAA Web/2.5B USSF A&A Protest News📰; CMS/DOE/HHS/Census Exec moves; DHA HIA/DOS & Army IT Wins

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🍊The Peel Podcast: Navigating the Federal Marketplace for Small Businesses – Shelley McGuire and Jeremy Wood, Chief of Enterprise Architecture at the SEC and creator of The Geek Within Podcast, break down advice for small businesses looking to break into the government space, from mastering the bid and proposal process to building credibility through partnerships and incremental growth. Listen here.

🐝The Morning Buzz:

• 🔥Get ’em while they’re hot! A handful of seats now available – Red Team Consulting event: Beyond 2025: Strategic Growth in the Federal Market. This will sell out.
• Monique Branham shares: Defense Health Agency (DHA) SBIR Funding Alert
• Bonnie Evangelista clears confusion: OTA/CSO are all the rage after DoD dropped “Directing Modern Software Acquisition to Maximize Lethality” memo
• DLA’s Shawn Lennon seeks ideas on using AI for financial reporting to achieve a clean audit opinion on the consolidated DoD financial statements
• It’s tomorrow: DHS Online Happy Hour with Monica Padron Harris
• Defense Health Agency focused women-owned small businesses to know – Here we spotlight the DHA focused firms drawing interest of late. Meet them here.
• 🎯 VA FY ’26 Recompetes – The Complete Report: The top expiring tasks expected to draw interest – Andrea shares Part II of this curated list of recompete opportunities—designed to spark teaming conversations. See the full list here.

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

• NASA closes offices, lays off staff as it prepares for larger workforce reductions
• HHS makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees
• Labor Department rehires removed probationary workers
• Inside federal agencies’ rush to reshape workforces—and spare employees from layoffs
• OPM inspector general will examine DOGE access to IT systems

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

• ProFeds Chris Kowalik shares new – Reduction in Force (RIF) Training Series

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

• CMS Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) names new Ops leader
• Secretary Kristi Noem Announces Expanded Leadership to Revamp ICE – Todd Lyons and Madison Sheahan
• Energy Dept. CIO Returns to SpaceX; Zimmer Is Acting Tech Chief
• Lakshmi Grama, NIH NCI Assoc Director, Dissemination and Digital Communications, retires
• HHS ACF and DoD Acquisition SME Chris Palmer launches Apex Federal Contracting
• ESRI recruits Census Bureau’s Decennial Field Quality Analytics Branch Chief
• CACI recruits John Gelsinger as VP driving Digital Solutions Group Business Development
• Sara Software Systems recruits Matt Ancona to serve as Chief Growth Officer
• Alvaro Castillo Donado now VP of Public Sector Strategy and Engagement at CGS Federal
• Optum Serve promotes Charnell McDonald to Vice President, Federal Solutions
• Janus Global Defense names Robert Donner Chief Growth Officer
• Pasha Palanker launches Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Deliverance Corp

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• Back to drawing board on $1.1B NIH NIAID Enabling and Advancing Technologies BPA?
• The Silent Shred⚡– Today’s contract terminations at HHS (NIH, AHRQ, CDC), DOI, HUD, GSA, VA, and FEMA. See the List here.

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

• LOC: New Award means New Protests on $450M Agile System Development Support IDIQ
• All Protests Dismissed on $100M FDA Regulatory Review Support BPA
• IRS Protest Dismissed: Data At Rest Encryption (DARE) Program Management & Engineering Support
• NOAA Fresh Protest: NMFS OCIO Web Modernization and Maintenance Services contract
• US Space Force Protest Denied: $2.5B US SSC Hemisphere Advisory and Assistance Services IDIQ
• DISA Denial Decision Posted: $45M National Defense University Enterprise IT Services task on ENCORE III

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:

• DOJ: Groundswell lands DEA IT Services for AGEO contract
• DOS: Soft Tech Consulting adds FSI IT Desktop Support Services task on CIO-SP3 SB
• NIH: GAP Solutions adds short-term NHLBI OIR Administrative Officer Support task
• USPTO inks $5M contract for Netskope Proactive Digital Experience Management solution
• Army: DecisionPoint beats 12 others to win $19M SDDC IT Support Services contract
• Army: Post Protest, ATL beats out 9 to win CASCOM Functional Analysis and Data Integration contract
• DHA: MediQuant nabs Enterprise Intelligence & Data Solutions PMO Health Information Archive services contract
• DHA: Delays forces award of Patient Safety Program (PSP) Support contract to Synensys
• USAF: Owl Cyber Defense inks a SBIR Phase III CDFMV System contract
• USAF: While protest simmers, AFNORTH takes actions to ensure AFSPACE Support Coverage
• USAF: Mission Essential lands A4R Logistics Operations Planning Support task
• USMC: RTX subsidiary nabs $182M CAC2S Software Support IDIQ

🔍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:

• BigBear.ai Awarded Contract to Modernize Critical Department of Defense Force Management Platform
• KITC is now a Google Premier Partner 

Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• DHA RFI: OMNIBUS IV Small Business On-Ramp
• Library of Congress RFP: IT Auditing Services IDIQ
• NASA Draft RFP: Program and Analysis Control (PAAC VI) Support Services
• DLA seeks Artificial Intelligence (AI) for financial reporting and audit processes
• DISA RFI: JFHQ-DODIN Financial Management, Budget and Technical Services
• DARPA RFI: DoD Relevant System Nominations to Deliver Resilient Software Systems
• Defense Security Cooperation Agency RFI: Cybersecurity Support Services
• Army RFI: Office of the Dep Chief of Staff, G9 IT, Cyber, Data Management support

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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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