419M NSF IT/149M FDA BOOM💥/20M DOE AI/25M DHS T&E BPA/62M NOAA IT wins; More 5B FBI ITSSS Protest 📰; DHS RAPID BPA/Coast Guard Data Sppt RFP Scoop🍦

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Defense IT Summit – Early Bird Ends Next Week – This early February event will bring together federal and industry leaders to discuss how IT modernization programs are restructuring the defense landscape, including the shifting needs around artificial intelligence, CJADC2, data innovation, and workforce development. The Early Bird ends January 9. Details here. NOTE: OS AI Members get a discount. Use code ORANGESLICES. Not sure if your team is a member? Message us at support@orangeslices.ai. 

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 new year.🎇

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.

To start 2024 OS AI is spotlighting some of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration focused large and small businesses which were the most viewed profiles on the OrangeSlices partner platform over the last several months of 2023. Meet them here.

Update: US Coast Guard preps to release C5ISC Data Support Services (DSS) RFP – The ⏰ clock is ticking, with 8(a) STARS III Primes hunting for partners. More here.

Heads Up: New DHS Multiple-Award DevSecOps BPA – Those firms prepping for this RFP on a 5-year multiple-award contract, better known as Rapid Application & Product Integration Delivery (RAPID), to acquire ad hoc high-performing DevSecOps services, will need to be patient as the projected RFP release date has been pushed back. More here.


Looking back on a year that included key wins at DOJ, DOL, the Defense Media Activity, and a very recent $36M HHS ACF contract, we caught up with Zolon Tech Inc. Dan Abernathy to learn more about this rapidly expanding IT and managed services company, its vast federal footprint and what 2024 has in store. Read on here.

The OS AI Fresh Squeezed Daily News partner for January:

Featured Posts

8(a) small business nabs $20M DOE FERC AI labor services contract
This 8(a) certified company that offers a range of services, from Cyber Security and Infrastructure and Cloud Management to Platform Management and Data Analytics, was awarded a new 4-year contract with the DOE FERC.

Full steam ahead for $36M HHS ACF OCIO O&M Support Services contract
Is it full steam ahead on this heavily competed contract that will empower the ACF OCIO to bolster its IT services across more than 25 mission-critical applications? The latest word is that a SWO that had been put in place post-award due to a pair of protests has been lifted.

Contract Award: $419M NSF Information Technology Mission Application Support
This longtime partner to the National Science Foundation and major consulting firm with experts in analytics, digital, engineering, and cyber, dedicated to helping organizations transform, beat out one other bidders to secure a new 7-year Alliant 2 task order.

Protests Dismissed: $5B+ FBI ITSSS-2 IDIQ
All remaining known active GAO protests filed concerning this high-profile multiple-award ITSSS-2 IDIQ requirement providing the FBI and DOJ with a contract option for the next eight years, have now been dismissed.

8(a) STARS III Prime beats 13 to win $62M NOAA IT Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support
This very fast growing woman-owned IT solutions and Business Support services provider, and major partner to NOAA, just beat out a slew of competition to win a 5 1/2-year contract.

Update: $149M FDA Business Operations, Optimization, and Modernization (BOOM) BPA
Sometimes protests do pay off. While an active protest remains listed as open on the GAO docket, the FDA announced yesterday that a new firm has just been awarded a Prime spot on this five-year multiple award BPA which will support optimizing and modernizing Food and Drug Administration (FDA) business operations.

AMSG beats out 8 to win USMC Capabilities Development Directorate planning & analysis support task
This fast growing SDVO operations, technologies, and administrative management firm beat out 8 other bidders to secure a new 5-year task order on the new multiple-award US Navy USMC Capabilities Development Technical and Operational Support IDIQ.

Navy seeking Deputy Chief Information Officer
Savvier firms may want to influence who applies for this role that will provide leadership, direction, and oversight of the $11B DON IT budget certification process, PBIS IT oversight, and other related IT budgetary activities.

Contract Award: $25M DHS FEMA Test & Evaluation services BPA
Awardees are starting to be name to this 4-year multiple-award BPA, which was 8(a) competed on GSA MAS, and will provide a range of T&E services to the FEMA Mission support office.

Contract Award: HHS PSC Customer Service and Processing of all Financial Activities
This 8(a) minority-owned small business provider to the Federal Government for technology, engineering, and management solutions, was awarded a new 4-year contract in support of the HHS ASA.

Comment of the Day:
  • Re: Pyramid Systems – Reaching out and supporting the community is an important aspect of Pyramid …Promoting from within is something we strive to do, whenever possible…Retaining good talent and supporting them as they evolve into new opportunities…Beyond providing promotion opportunities, Pyramid makes continued education and training a key part of our philosophy.  More here.

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Department of Defense

AMSG beats out 8 to win USMC Capabilities Development Directorate planning & analysis support task

Navy seeking Deputy Chief Information Officer

Contract Award: $19M Defense Health Agency (DHA) MEDCIN Software Subscription

Contract Award: $22M US Navy ETSS & site support contract

Senior Industry and Federal Leaders on the move – Week ending Jan 5, 2024

Former USAF Wing Commander Trey Coleman Joins Raft as Chief Product Officer

Connected Logistics awarded 10th DLA JETS IDIQ Prime task order

Navy Presolicitation: Uninterrupted Enterprise Support to the Navy Maritime Maintenance Enterprise Solution (NMMES) Sustainment and Modernization Program

WOSB wins $12M National Guard Bureau (NGB)-J6 JCCSE 2.0/Chief Data Officer (CDO)/CIO Support Services contract

Contract Award: DHA Virtual Medical Center Project Management and Data Analyst Support Service

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