OASIS+ UR&SB/250M ITFMSS/DOJ CyberSec/DOE AppDev/USCG FACTS/WH SharePoint/USDA ProTracts wins; GSA POLARIS/NIH ServiceNow/NITAAC🐝; DHS/18F Exec moves

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🍊Podcast: Planning Your Exit: Retirement, Ethics & Industry Transitions – Shelley McGuire speaks with former DHS acquisition lead Monica Padron Harris, who shares candid insights/advice for federal employees contemplating their next move, and the current state of government workforce reductions. Listen here.

🐝The Morning Buzz:

• In spite of active protests that currently threaten to derail LIVE solicitations (USMC, FBI, DOT and DHS), GSA announces new batch of 110 OASIS+ Unrestricted (UR) contract award decisions! Details Here.
• AND GSA announces 190 new awardees for OASIS+ Small Business Set Aside contract! Details Here.
• Former DHS OSDBU Exec Darlene Bullock: Entire HHS OSDBU abolished – read/take action!
• ICYMI: PEO Enterprise announces new Product Lead (PL) Digital Market for IT Products & related services, replacing CHESS
• GSA’s Stephen Ehikian: To streamline government procurement, GSA built CODY bot to automate pre-award research process
• 👀 Anyone else notice that the NITAAC / CIO-SP3 site has been down for the past 2 days?
• Nobis and Highlight  form a JV and a SourceAmerica-sanctioned Mentor-Protégé Partnership
• Shauna Weatherly: Focus of the MAS Rightsizing effort were announced publicly on 3/24 – but HOW had not been before…start planning
• Sam Finnerty discusses Trump’s Overhaul of Federal Contracting and GSA’s Pivotal Role

💲#DOGE Scoop – Avert your eyes if you don’t want to watch – we get it:

• RFK Jr. announces HHS reinstating some programs, employees cut by mistake
• DHS plans to slash HQ workforce, including AI experts | Trump administration fires three National Security Council officials
• Agencies are submitting lists of employees who will lose civil service protection
• Deloitte to Lay Off U.S. Consultants After Government Cost Crackdown
• GovWin: Small Business Impacts From Trump 2.0 and DOGE Initiatives

⚙️ It’s all about Community – Resources Page for Affected Feds and Industry: Check it out here.

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

• DHS S&T names new Principal Director for Innovation and Collaboration
• DHS GovCon wonk Scott Simpson to be on 12-month detail with another federal agency
• Altana recruits former 18F leader Olesya Minina from Palantir
• GSA names new Office of Shared Services & Performance Improvement Operations leader
• Command Sergeant Major Jack Nichols Joins NTT DATA to lead Defense Network & Cyber Integrations
• Gartner recruits CDO, Enterprise Support, Chief of Naval Personnel Jonathan Beri

Other industry Growth leaders taking new roles: Dynante adds Hema Jagadeeswaran | Beyond Identity Adds Growth Trio – Zeruto, Burke, and Marascio | Aquia adds Contracts /Procurement SME Wilson | Aaron Mountain now Authentic8 Head of Government | Larnie Yuson now Capgemini Fed Health Client Partner | ICYMI: Chris Greeney joins Fearless | Tony Mitchell now Peerless CGO/CTO | Growth SME Juan Toves set to start new chapter | CVP taps first Chief AI Officer Cal Zemelman | Jim Sutton now ColorTokens Public Sector VP | Scale AI adds Paul Elliott from UiPath as IC Strategy Head GTM | Alexis Vitiello joins Maximus to drive DHS Growth

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• Procurement System challenges slows action on $10B Polaris Small Business GWAC Protest
• ⚡NIH kills off $28M OIT and Service Management ServiceNow Support Services contract
• We have Updates: DHS, FBI, DOT and USMC Tasks on OASIS+ threatened with delays that may extend into Summer
• The Silent Shred⚡– Today’s contract terminations at NIH, HRSA, FDA AND HUD. See the List here.

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

• Protest Dismissed: Department of the Air Force Solicitation Number FA800325R0006

Been heads down working on a proposal? Track all the latest protest activity here or see this report with all protest actions over the past week.

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⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• Treasury: MetaPhase and Hill Associates win $250+M IT & Financial Management Support (IT&FMSS) BPA
• IRS does about face, pulls funds on new High-speed graph database contract award
• DOJ: Guidehouse beats out 2 to win $16M DEA Cyber Security Support task
• DOE: IBM wins $11M FERC Application Layer Modernization Support Services task
• DOE: Impyrian beats out 2 to win $9M FERC AV Maintenance and Support contract
• CBP: DHS awards $9M OCIO IT Services task on SEWP
• US Coast Guard: Hexagon US Federal awarded Finance Center FACTS IT Support contract
• USDA: CGI lands OCIO ProTracts Financial Management Modernization Initiative support contract
• GSA: Guidehouse named as an awardee on $16M PBS Real Property Solutions BPA
• White House awards SharePoint Development Services bridge contract to Softtek
• Navy: In advance of new contract, Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Support Bridge contract awarded

🔍Looking for a specific award or other news? Check out OS’s Advanced Search Function here Did we miss highlighting your key win? Message us at support@orangeslices.ai.

🎉 Events and Updates:

• San Antonio IT (DHA/MHS) Networking Events – Sponsorships up for grabs
• Breaking the Standard Podcast to host Birthday Bash

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

• AretecSBD Awarded Prime Position on Treasury’s $20B PROTECTS Contract Through CTA with ShorePoint
• Ultra I&C selected for prime position on U.S. Air Force EWAAC IDIQ contract
• Blu Omega Ranks #18 on Inc. Magazine’s 2025 List of the Mid-Atlantic Region’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
• Leidos awarded $390M NSA signals intelligence contract

Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• ICE Forecast: Financial Systems Infrastructure Software O&M on CIO-SP3 SB
• CBP Pre-Solicitation: $100M+ Transformative Technical Solutions (TTS)
• VHA RFP: Health Information Coding, Billing, and Auditing VistA Integration, Reporting and Revenue

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