DHS DMP IT Take 2; CMS Testing/IRS NMCC/Army EXPRESS/Navy MS II/Census Cloud Protest📰; VA/HHS/CISA Exec moves; 335M DoD DEBOSS & new 33B IAC IDIQ win

🍊 The Peel Podcast – CMS CPI’s Jeneen Iwugo discusses AI, Constructive Disruption, and a desire for NEW ideas (as well as a little Ravens talk) on the JR Glass & Ali Steer show – Do you have great new ideas for how the CMS Center for Program Integrity can better target Fraud, Waste and Abuse? Jeneen is on a mission to identify news solutions, technologies and approaches that can help support the mission. Listen here.

⏰The Holiday Season is Nearly Here and Time is Going to Fly By. Four Events to Get in on Now. Two Events Just Announced!

• 6 days and counting until the HIMSS NCA Program on Advancing Health Equity through Technology: A Focus on Maternal Health and SDOH with DHA and IHS. Details here.
• 5 days and counting until the OrangeSlices #Elev8 and #Engage GovCon event and we are so close to SELLING OUT! We’ve closed down the entire Guinness Open Gate Brewery for this night of connection, recognition and of course, fun! Who’s coming? Dozens of Federal Execs will be there. 2025 Engage & Elev8 GovCon honorees… Will you be there? Register Now! Don’t get left out in the cold!

AND Two Newly announced events🔥

• DHS Virtual Happy Hour and Opportunity Talk on December 11th with USCIS Sr. IT Acquisition Advisor Monica Padron Harris, brought to you by OrangeSlices AI & Shelley’s Events and this month’s sponsor, ResolveSoft. Details here.
• Kick off 2025 with the OrangeSlices Vanguard FedCiv 250 event – This gathering will feature dynamic panels with Federal Acquisition Tech leaders, and industry disruptors, sharing insights on emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities for FY25. More here.

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 2025:

• Trump picks Doug Collins to head the VA
• CISA Director Jen Easterly to depart on Inauguration Day
• LCG Announces Leadership Transition: Melissa McCullough Appointed as CEO
• Aptive welcomes Susan Hayashi to lead Civilian Health account
• For Your Information Inc. appoints Sara Sami as president
• Steven Simkins joins Fusion Technology – to serve as point person for DoD and Air Force
• ICYMI: Brad Chatlos takes new role as Navy & Marine Corps Lead at DataRobot

🔍 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.

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• DHS OCPO will revisit eval on $25M IT and Data Management Program Support BPA
• Make that Triple Trouble for $557M Census Bureau On-Prem and Cloud Infrastructure Support BPA

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⚖ GAO and the Courts:

• CMS Protest Withdrawn: $87M CCIIO Independent Testing Support Services (CITSS)
• IRS Protest Filed: Network Management Control Center (NMCC) IT and Operational Support Service
• US Army: Fresh Protests Filed on EXPRESS Small Business On-Ramp
• Defense Intelligence Agency Protest Dismissed: EUCOM RJITF Training Support
• US Navy Protest Dismissed: $1B Microsoft Enterprise Services II IDIQ
• US Air Force: Second Fresh Protest Filed for Solicitation # FA877123R0043 – LifeCycle Solutions JV and Inserso
• US Air Force Protest Filed: Maintenance Business System Modernization (MABSM) Implementation
• Decision Released: One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+) protest denial

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.

⚡Check out the latest Contract Awards:

• DOD DeCA: NCR wins $335M Enterprise Business Operations Systems Solution IDIQ
• Three more awardees named to $33B Information Analysis Center (IAC) Multiple-Award IDIQ 
• Navy: SDVOSB GC Associates beats out 3 to win $11M COMPACFLT IT Services Support task on 8(a) STARS III
• Army National Guard: DDC subsidiary awarded $25M Accessions Systems Branch Training, Development, and IT Support (ASB-TDS) Services contract
• Navy Contract Award: $90M Systems Operational Deployment Eval, AoA and Initial Engineering Design IDIQ
• Navy: Contract Award: $76M NAVAIR NGNMPS/CMPC Integration and SAFE

🔍Looking for a specific award or other news? The awards are in for FY ’24 and we don’t peddle old news.  Check out OS’s Advanced Search Function here Did we miss highlighting your key win? Message us at support@orangeslices.ai.

🐝The Friday Buzz – Keeping you in the know before the weekend

• Red Team’s Joe Salgado shares: NASA SEWP Program Office just released Amendment 8: revised RFP & some new files
• GAO: OMB IT Portfolio Management: OMB and Agencies Are Not Fully Addressing Selected Statutory Requirements
• GAO: Cloud Computing: VA, SSA, NASA, SSA, DOT and DOJ Need Updated Guidance for Managing Restrictive Licenses

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

• Chevo IRS Win: Prime BPA Contract for Enterprise Program Project Integration Services
• Ibility to deliver data and reporting support to Army National Guard

🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• CISA: Sector Risk Management Agency Ops & Analysis Support now WOSB set-aside
• CISA: Spring ’25 Consolidated Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Support recompete to go out on MAS
• CISA plans to award WOSB sole source contract for Entity Risk Assessment Support in Spring ’25 on STARS III?
• Treasury RFI: Business Master File Legacy Business Processing, Requirements, and SME Support
• DOI RFI: BSEE Decommissioning System in the Technical Information Management System (TIMS) Project
• DoD Source Sought: DSCA GlobalNet Operations and Sustainment
• DOD RFI: Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (OSD CAPE)/Cost Assessment Data Enterprise (CADE) Support Services
• DOD RFI: Digital Engineering and Inclusion of Small Defense Contractors
• US Army Corps of Engineers RFP: Army Safety and Occupational Health Management System (ASOHMS) Executive Level Review
• Army RFI: Managing Army’s Human Capital – Innovation, Integration, and Implementation
• USAF RFI: National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) Advisory Support & Tech Requirement Administration (ASTRA) IDIQ
• USAF RFI: Cyber Crime Center Office of Special Investigations (DC3/AFOSI) Scientific Engineering & Tech Assistance (SETA) II
• DSCA Sources Sought: GlobalNet Operations and Sustainment

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