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Coffee Talk – The Year of the Big VA Recompetes – Experts Sharing Intel! Details and Registration here.

The Juice: New Roles. New Energy. Federal and Industry leaders who are set to make an impact in FY ’24:

It would not be the Holiday Season if it did not include big RFPs – ICYMI: Late last week, VA announced that the $2.7B Secure, Performant, Reliable, and User-Centered Experiences (SPRUCE) #SDVOSB set-aside, multiple award IDIQ (formerly known as CEDAR) RFP is expected to be released within the next few weeks (end of November/Early December). More here.

Led by new Elev8 GovCon Advisory Board Chair, Susan Sharer, the committee met last Friday to nail down some big plans for 2024! Have you nominated a worthy Federal Program for consideration for the Elev8 Federal Government honor, which recognizes high-performing Federal teams driving enterprise-level programs and offices that are not only delivering on the important missions of the Federal Government, but that are also doing it the right way? Nominations close December 11, 2023. Details here.

The OS AI Fresh Squeezed Daily News partner for November:

Comments of the Day:
  • Re: VA IHT 2.0 IDIQ Partner Request: Woman-Owned SDVOSB seeks SDVOSB Partners to join team – SteerBridge would be very interested in serving as your SDVOSB partner. More here. 
  • Re: Advanced Management Strategies Group – AMSG is laser focused on its employees and customers…Online Academy training platform to provide access to certification classes that AMSG pays for, Increased 401k retirement match… More here. 

Featured Posts

Spring RFP planned for $100M+ DHS CBP IAO Data Analytics and Decision Support BPA
Situated at the intersection of a $100M single-award BPA that has blown through its ceiling earlier than expected, an incumbent who was acquired, and an interesting set of required capabilities/expertise, this Spring 2024 DHS CBP RFP will and should draw a lot of interest from potential Prime and subcontractors, with many working to influence the acquisition strategy.

Key CMS industry event takeaways – RAAM, PM3, CCW, RAA, APS, and much more – More than 18 active opportunities covered
Members of the OrangeSlices AI team attended Friday’s popular Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services industry focused networking event. Here is a bit of what we heard.

Contract Award: $500M+ DOJ JMD OCIO Service Desk and Incidental IT Support Services BPA
Awardees are starting to be named for this heavily competed multiple-award BPA with the DOJ Justice Management Division OCIO for tasks and services necessary to perform helpdesk, incidental IT and all related PM services for DOJ JMD employees.

Premium OS AI: SEC forced to stop work on Office of the Chief Data Officer support contract
A formal challenge has now forced the agency to halt work on this Securities and Exchange Commission contract.

SD Solutions beat out 4 to score new IRS EFS Support contract
Adding to a string of wins in support of the IRS this 8(a) HUBZone small business professional services company that specializes providing Cyber Security, Strategy & Governance, and IT Modernization solutions, beat out 4 other bidders for a new support task.

Protest Withdrawn: DHS USCIS Enterprise Platform for Integrated Citizen Development (EPIC)
The lone known GAO protest in relation to this USCIS requirement seeking development and technical services to support the Salesforce/Tableau, UiPath, and ServiceNow platforms has now been withdrawn.

RFI and Industry Day Announcement: Census Bureau Decennial Transformation & Application Modernization (DTAM)
The Census requires a contractor to provide transformative technology support for Decennial Programs to include modernization of existing applications and development of new applications.

8(a) EDWOSB nabs $12M DOT FMCSA Quality Assurance (QA) Test Support Services contract
This 8(a) EDWOSB that specializes in providing smart, technology-enabled solutions to help customers realize their business goals, was awarded a new 5-year task in support of the DOT FMCSA.

Government sides with protestor on Air Force Solicitation RFQ-1609916
GAO recently sustained a protest put forth in relation to this US Air Force requirement.

Contract Award Update: $99M DOL OASP Chief Evaluation Office support BPA
More than two months after the initial batch of awardees was announced, a new Prime awardee has been added to this multiple-award BPA in support of the Department of Labor Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy.

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Department of Defense

Government sides with protestor on Air Force Solicitation RFQ-1609916

Protest Decision Released: USSOCOM Global Information Operation Technical Support Services Denial

DOD taps Air Force Data SME to serve as Division Chief of Data & Digital Transformation

DARPA awards contracts for Novel Cyber Technologies for use by Warfighters during Tactical Operations

Familiar face returns to Defense Health Agency to be Chief Operations Officer

Senior Industry and Federal Leaders on the move – Week ending Nov 17, 2023

Protests Dismissed: $90M+ US Army ITES-3S Regional Cyber Center IT Services and Support task

8(a) WOSB beats out 20 to win DISA DCMA Cybersecurity support services contract

Contract Award: $12M DHS Website and IT Management Support Services

Commerce ITA recruits DIA Analytics/Innovation Chief to serve as Managing Director, Risk and Quantitative Analytics

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