⚡624M VA OMEGA/DHS AI Arch/CMS PMDA/SEC Analytics/USDA Portal/FDA QMIS/IRS JETCS/NIH GARD/NARA ISSO/SBA ODR&R BPA/233M VA TEST/ HHS AI Planning wins

🌟ICYMI: This week’s Engage FedGov event was a SOLD OUT hit – Check out some of the images from the event here.

👀 As FY ’24 wraps up, awards have taken center stage, but here are five of the most popular articles you may have missed.

• Four challengers band together to protest $50B CIO-SP4 IT Services GWAC
• 🚀NASA SEWP VI GWAC off pause, sets new proposal timeline and industry day
• CMS Marketplace IT leader Marc Richardson joins USA InfoTech – an emerging 8(a) WOSB (and Sparksoft protege)
• Meet the 2025 Engage Fed Health 150: Driving Innovation Forward!
• VA’s New Electronic Health Record: Leaders and Staff Sound the Alarm on Major Concerns

The Juice🥤: Big Investments do not guarantee Big results, but they do signify intent! Here are several Federal and Industry leaders who are set to make an impact in the second half of 2024.

• GSA appoints Dovarius Peoples as new deputy CIO
• Congressional Budget Office promotes Damon Whitley to CIO
• Alpha Omega recruits Dhani Ramadhani to drive Capture and Knowledge Management
• Kevin Sampels recruited by Palantir to serve as Senior Air Force Account Executive
• IFAS recruits Kenneth Chambers to serve as Chief Growth Officer

🔍 This is a dynamic marketplace with a lot of comings and goings. To help you keep up with all of the action, check out this report highlighting top Senior Industry and Federal Leaders on the move from this week.

Taking note of the story behind strategic hires: Meet Scope Infotech’s new Executive Vice President, Sherif Said

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• VA revises timeline, takes steps to re-release Cost, Utilization and Performance Platform (CUPP) solution RFP
• Challenge Upgrade: $10B DHS FirstSource III IT Value Added Reseller (ITVAR) protest moves to the court

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⚖ GAO and the Courts. Some of the latest Protest Action:

We know it can be hard to stay on top of all of the latest news and activity. To help keep you abreast, here are some of the recent protest actions the OS AI team noted over the past week.

☔ Awards, awards, and more awards

🔥 VA COs have been busy making awards …

• SDVOSB wins $624M VA Onboarding, Management, Engineering, Governance, & Assurance Services (OMEGA) contract
• Prometheus Federal Services (PFS) wins VA Digital Health Office-Wide Program Support Services contract
• ReefPoint Group scores a VA Professional Services task win on VECTOR
• Maveris beats out 3 to win $233M VA Technical Evaluation Security Testing contract
• GDIT nabs $231M VA Enterprise Service Desk (ESD) Tier One Support contract win

🔥 And so have HHS COs…

• CMS: Global Alliant beats out 4 to win Performance Metrics Database and Analytics (PMDA) support contract
• HHS: Chickasaw Nation Industries subsidiary scores $23M AI Planning & Support contract
• HRSA: Tripoint Solutions scores again, wins SharePoint Modernization (w-Zero Trust) Services contract
• HRSA: AMC beats 3 to win Staff/OD/Professional Development Strategic Planning contract
• HRSA: More Awardees named to $350M Headquarters Evaluations and Evidence Building IDIQ
• ACF: Peers beats out 7 on $16M OHSEPR Professional, Administrative and Program Management support contract
• CDC awards Immunization Information Services IDIQ to Noridian Healthcare Solutions
• CDC: Precise and TurningPoint JV beats out 4 to win COVID-19 Administration Reporting Systems (CARS) Help Desk contract
• CDC Contract Award: Continuity of Operations (COOP) Support Services
• FDA: BITS beats out 3 to win Sentinel 3.0 Program Management Organization (PMO) IDIQ
• FDA: CWC Group wins CDER MasterControl Quality Management Information System support contract
• NIH: A P Ventures wins Genetic and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center and Related Programs support contract
• NIH: Full lifecycle customer experience agency Tactis adds $33M contract win
• NIH: Penobscot Health Services awarded $25M Clinical Center Operations and Maintenance Support IDIQ
• HHS: CALIBRE Systems wins Contracting Series Workforce & Technology Assessment task

🔥 And DHS COs …

• ICE: ICF beats out 4 to win $40M HSI Public Awareness Strategic Communications, Marketing, & Training task on GSA OASIS
• DHS: AVER beats out 3 to win $10M IDART Recompete
• CBP: Arlo and Deloitte JV win contract to drive LLM development
• CBP: Centrifuge wins another IT Support Services contract
• DHS: Monkton leverages SBIR Phase III contract to secure $92M Medical Information eXchange (MIX) System Integration task
• CISA: Solutions³ beats out 7 to win $25M Federal Cyber Defense Skilling Academy Training and Education Support BPA
• USCIS: ASRC Federal subsidiary wins $17M Zero Trust Integration Services contract
• USCIS: Akiak Technology wins OIT AI Architecture/Governance Implementation Services contract

🔥 And DOD COs …

• DHRA: Booz Allen Hamilton wins $125M DMDC Zero Trust Enterprise Data Services (ZTEDS) task
• DOD: Patricio Enterprises wins $64M JRO-CBRND Operational and Technical Services task on Seaport-NxG
• WHS: Phase Two JV wins Acquisition Modernization Initiative (AMI) Support Services
• DLA: Additional awardee named to $12B J-6 Enterprise Technology Services 2.0 IDIQ
• DOD inks $795M IDIQ contract for Adobe Enterprise software licenses and support
• Army Contract Award: $100M Tradewinds Maven Smart System (MSS)

⚡Other big Contract Award actions to close out the week!

• SEC: Elder Research beats out 13 to win Analytical Methods and Support contract
• SEC: Peregrine beats out 3 to win Data Governance and Management Services Support
• Treasury: FedTec and 22nd Century JV wins again, adds Office of Financial Research (OFR) SME task on CIO-SP3 SB
• IRS: ATI wins $20M OCIO JETCS Tax Calculation and Modernization Solution contract
• Treasury OCC: ACI wins $11M Network Monitoring, Application Monitoring & Operational Analytics tools support BPA
• SBA: Two firms named to $50M ODR&R Disaster Recovery, Mitigation, Policy Support IDIQ
• USDA: Armedia beats out 3 to win FNS MEMS NextGen (NG) OM&E support task
• USDA: ASRC Federal subsidiary wins RD SFHD Borrower Portal support IDIQ
• Census Bureau awards 2026 CT contract to Command Cyber Solutions
• NARA: XLA beats out 3 to win ISSO Support Services contract
• DOJ: A-TEK wins Library Support Services BPA
• DOJ: Tactis wins Implementation of Digital-First Public Experience support contract
• ED: AEM wins $19M Office for Civil Rights’ Data Collection Support Services task

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

• Accenture wins $90M CISA contract to provide data analytics, vulnerability research and analysis support
• FDA awards Sparksoft with Prime Contract to Provide Future-State Reference Enterprise Architecture
• Alpha Omega wins Best Digital Transformation Award at Unqork + AI Hackathon

📢 Most Viewed Comments:

• RE: Four challengers band together to protest $50B CIO-SP4 IT Services GWAC – Same lawyers? Same company? Just blow the whole thing up and start again. More here.

🐝The Buzz – Keeping you in the know:

• Two DOD hosted information sessions to check out:
  • DARPA Switchable Reactives and Energetics (SeREne) Disruption Opportunity (DO)
  • DARPA Human-AI Communication for Deontic Reasoning DevOps (CODORD) Disruption Opportunity (DO)

🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• Army RFI: PEO Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Data and Analytics Platforms (ARDAP) 2.0 IDIQ
• Pre-Solicitation Notice: NASA Evaluations, Assessments, Studies, Services and Support (EASSS) 4

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