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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 taps Director of Acquisitions – Centers of Excellence
• CMS names new Division of State Systems Director
• US Army Network Enterprise Technology Command names new CISO
• USAF taps Air Mobility Command leader as Senior Exec Officer to the DAF CIO
• Former HHS OIG CTO and PCAOB Acting CIO now co-founder and CTO for TANDMM
• Jonathan Fil now VP of BD for Government Services at Tomahawk Information Solutions
• Jefferson Consulting Group Appoints Kevin Houley as VP/ Defense Portfolio Lead

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

• Protest Filed: State Dept. Solicitation Number: 19AQMM24Q0080 – Devis
• Decision Released: DOD Audit Remediation and Sustainment Services Conflict of Interest Assertion Protest Denial
• Decision Released: USDA Reimbursement of Protest Costs Incurred 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.

⚡Contract Award actions to close out the week!

• VA to award Snowbird Agility a VHA CIDMO Change Management Support contract
• REI’s CIO-SP3 SB Prime JV beat out 9 to win a CDC CEO CX Support task
• Anika wins CMS CMCS Medicaid & IKN Web Site Quality Assurance Support task on 8(a) STARS III
• Contract Award: $36M HHS OIG ServiceNow Support Services
• VA to award Sole Source Integrated Standards Support contract to Book Zurman
• SD Solutions wins NIH NIDA Clinical Trials Research Coordination Center support contract
• EDWOSB scores HHS Biometric Web Application (BWA) Development and O&M Support contract
• Contract Award: $39M CMS Marketplace Outreach Data System
• Acumen beats out 2 to win $25M CMS MIDS IDIQ task win
• Contract Award: $9.5M CMS Evaluation of Medicare-Medicaid Financial Alignment Initiative
• Bravium beats out 3 to win FEMA Responder Lodging Occupancy System task
• JV wins USDA Rural Housing Program Service Support IDIQ
• WOSB beats out 6 to win Commerce Dept. OIG Hotline Services contract
• ICF wins NIH NCATS Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center Support contract

🐝The Buzz – Keeping you in the know

• ServiceNow Federal Unit feeling some heat
  • ServiceNow parts with president and public sector head after internal probe
  • “Company policy was violated” – ServiceNow’s contract crisis
  • ServiceNow’s Desai Resigns After Investigation Into Hiring Ex-Army CIO
• HHS’s ONC been elevated to the newly created Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP), Acting Chief AI Officer Tripathi takes helm
• Cost overruns, delays plague VA’s new integrated financial management system
• Gov integrated planning software leader Decision Lens receives investment from Diversis Capital
• It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere – Justin Newell shares that the popular San Antonio DHA/MHS Happy Hour is set for August 1st – ServiceNow and Carahsoft are sponsors

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

• CGI continues technology modernization initiatives for the EPA
• CMS Selects LMI to Support ACO Medicare Shared Savings Program
• HighPoint Digital ‘In It To Win It’ Against Blood Cancer
• Nava and Corbalt CTA win CMS Shared Platform Operations Contract (SPOC) Services contract
• DOD Awards ICF New $1.4B Applications and Data Services Modernization BPA

🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• VA RFI Update: Artificial Intelligence Pilot Teams Update
• VA RFQ: Data Abstraction Services Vision Center of Excellence
• VA RFI: National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (NC-PTSD) Person-level Clinical Trial Database (PCTD)
• DHS CISA to make 8(a) sole source award of OEDIA Barrier Analysis contract
• DHS 8(a) STARS III Pre-Solicitation: FEMA Crisis Management System Business Analysis
• State Department Sources Sought: FOIA and Information Access Staffing Support
• DOD RFP: Advanced Professional Exec Senior Executive Orientation Program (APEX) Support