OASIS+/69M DHS DSSS/CMS RMADA3 News📰; VA/USDA/DOI/CIA Exec moves; DHS FinSys/CMS MCCRC/Login.gov/USDA Portal Dev/NIH Maximo/NIST CHIPS/DCSA DLP wins⚡

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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• GSA clears major hurdle (and risk) on OASIS+ Unrestricted, making way for task awards
• VA sheds light on cancellation, re-solicitation and extension of Business Testing Service & Op Support contract
• DHS details why it sided with protestor of $69M USCIS Data Strategy Support Services (DSSS) award
• CMS RMADA 3 IDIQ Update: Due date for proposals revised – Q&A expected out today.
• New Exec Orders Out: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement | and Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program takes center stage | See All Here.
• Red Team Consulting: FAR 2.0 is coming. Are you ready? See key areas contractors should watch for
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Calls for ‘Creative’ Approach to R&D Spending
• US Department of Agriculture focused HUBZone small businesses to know – Meet them here.
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💲#DOGE Scoop – Avert your eyes if you don’t want to watch – we get it:

• Cornerstone stands up Networking Reception Honoring Public Service Heroes – Share with Feds and Register Here Today!
• DOJ Preliminary Reorganization Plan Centralizes Multiple Agency Functions
• White House pitches layoffs, local office closures and program eliminations at USDA
• OPM plans to spend nearly $42 million to relocate a few hundred employees

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

• Former VA IT Exec tapped as Acting USDA FSIS Deputy Chief Information Officer
• Steerbridge welcomes Longtime VBA CFO Charles Tapp
• DOI IBC Director Quan Boatman will be departing the Interior Business Center
• Retired CIA Mission Center lead focused on leveraging new technologies, launches consultancy
• Koniag Promotes Dr. Eric Reyes to Chief Security Officer, Accelerating Enterprise Security and CMMC Readiness

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

• Army Materiel Command Protests Dismissed | Leader Communications and BEAT-ATC | W91RUS-25-R-AP01
• Decision Released: USCIS OCDO Support Services protest sustainment

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• Protest timeline and any risk to schedule for Alliant 3 GWAC outlined
• Pile-On continues as another new challenger jumps in the mix on NGA VERTEX IT Services Award
• The Silent Shred⚡– Today’s contract terminations at CNCS, DOC, FDA, HRSA and MANY at IRS OCIO. See the List here.

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⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• DHS: Teracore beats out 2 to win $11M S&T Financial Management Systems Modernization task on VETS 2
• CMS extends MCCRC-Review Bridge Contract with Truss
• Flexion lands GSA Login.gov Data Warehouse Expansion task
• OPM: Abt Global subsidiary beats out 3 to win ETS O&M Support Services task
• NIST: Prometheus Computing scores CHIPS METIS Digital Collection support task
• Rios Partners awarded new task focused on advancing value-based care across the MHS
• USDA FPAC awards sole source Acreage Reporting Systems and Customer Portal AppDev contract to GDIT
• DOI NPS awards urgent CS-Program Support contract to Booz Allen Hamilton
• NIH to award IBM Maximo software development contract to TRM
• DOD: TFC Consulting lands DSCA FMF Direct Loan Program Support Contract

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🎉 Events to Get in on Now:

• AFCEA DC’s inaugural Small Bus Breakfast with Army Office of Small Business Programs
• Cornerstone stands up Networking Reception Honoring Public Service Heroes – Share with Feds and Register Here Today!
• Introducing the Department of the Navy SBIR/STTR Office Hours
• ACT-IAC Contact Center Summit in collaboration with Carahsoft and Dorris Consulting International

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

• DecisionPoint awarded $17.9M IRS Contract
• Sierra7 partners with Syracuse to Provide PMP, CISSP and ITIL Training for Veteran Employees & Spouses
• REI Systems Passes CMMC Level 2 C3PAO Assessment
• US Army Enterprise Cloud Management Agency Expands Oracle Defense Cloud Services
• US Navy adds Persistent Systems to Family of Systems USV IDIQ contract
• Node.Digital announces on-ramp to the CDAO AI Talent 2.0 BOA and Network Designs, Inc. (NDi) adds spot too

Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• USCIS Forecast: Continuous Monitoring & Agile Security Services (CMASS) IV
• CBP to award CSPD MVP Application Development Support contract
• USCG RFI: Media, Strategic Planning, and Communication Support Services
• CMS posts update to Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design, and Analysis 3 IDIQ
• IRS RFI: Digital Assets Basis Computation Services
• US Marshals Service RFI: Acquisition Professionals Suite of Information and Knowledge Sharing Platform
• Energy Department RFI: Docketing Platform
• USTRANSCOM RFI: Medical Regulating and Command & Control Evacuation System
• Army Special Notice: Synchronized Persistent Army Experimentation (SPARX)
• Army RFI Notice: The Red Giant Training and Readiness Accelerator II (TReX II)
• Army RFI: Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment 2026 (CFWE 26); Command and Control-counter Command and Control (C2-cC2)
• US Navy RFI: Engineering, Analysis, Program Support, Weapons Surety, Policy, and Compliance support services

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