🚀32M Treasury IT/VA SPP/CIO-SP3 SB/FDA CDS/Army C4IM IT wins; DHS/IRS/SEC AI/Census IT & 250M Army AFI/ED LPS Protest Scoop🍦; DOE/DHA/FDA Exec moves

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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• #DOGE and Federal IT & Consulting Contract Cancellations – Reports Updated Today: HUD, State Dept., Labor, and Homeland Security (DHS)
• CMS #DOGE: Newly launched Fraud Detection Operations Center has, in 1 month, suspended payments to 33 providers suspected of fraud
• Fed Gov Contracting Has CHANGED! Searching for Your Way FORWARD? Attend the May Orlando VETS25 Conference – Strategies for GROWTH
• CGI launches fraud, waste and abuse prevention platform to support Federal Government
• State Department focused HUBZone small businesses to know – Meet them here.
• US Navy SBIR/STTR Office Reminder: Office Hours to be held tomorrow
• 🌟PIVOT!! – with Purpose and Retrospect – A Proactive Way Forward from former CMS Director Carol Sefret – Picture the stairwell sofa scene from Friends and hear Ross say, “PIVOT!?!?” On the heels of the smile or giggle should come an awareness that pivoting is what we are doing right now in the world of government contracting. The question is, “What does the pivot look like and what are pivoting to?” Read on here.

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

• FDA recruits longtime DHA and DoD/VA leader Barclay Butler to serve as Deputy Commissioner for Operations
• Energy CIO Ross Graber leaving after less than 2 months on the job
• Nava welcomes two new executives – Samantha Kwok and Marvin McLain
• Total Force Alliance recruits Kyle Novinger to serve as President & Chief Growth Officer
• Invisible Sun recruits Stephanie Ambrose to serve as Chief Marketing Officer
• D&G Solutions announces Ret USAF Brig Gen Marty Chapin has joined as a Senior Advisor
• and several growth leaders on the move: Aretum adds Bradley Stegman to drive DHS Growth | Alex Davis to drive DoD sales with UiPath | and Neesha Desai to drive BD at Essex, a Veridix AI Company

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

• Army Protest Filed: $250M Financial Improvement (AFI) Program Support Services IDIQ
• IRS Protest Filed: 25PR-SSPDIR-0117 | Reston Consulting Group
• DHS: Fresh Protest Filed: 70RSAT24R00000021 | Strategic Operational Solutions
• SEC Protest Dismissed: AI/ML Support Services contract
• Education Protest Dismissed: $250M FSA Loan Portfolio Services and Systems Development contract
• Protest Denied: U.S. Census Bureau IT support services | 1333-LB-24-JK0001

Been heads down working on a proposal? 🍊OS AI Premium sponsors can Track all the latest protest activity here or see this report with all protest actions over the past week.

🍊The Peel Podcast: Discriminators, Trust, and Agility in Federal Contracting – Shelley McGuire and her daughter Sydney (co-hosting for Take Your Child to Work Day), connect with Cogent People Growth & Innovation leader Joshua Rosenthal, as they discuss how to vet opportunities—focusing on customer connection, corporate fit, resource allocation, proposal differentiators, stakeholder trust and agility in today’s federal arena. Listen here.