Polaris/VA TSS/DOE CBOSS/NRC DIVA Protest📰; 147M NIH Cloud/TSA PFP/100M FDA RR/USDA OIG IT/IRS IRA TD/DoEd DMCS/Navy Digital Transformation wins🎉

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✨ With change seemingly a constant of late, stay up on what is happening. 🎉 Catch up on the BUZZ in the Fed Health IT & Consulting sector with our newest edition of the Fed Health Insights Newsletter. Covering DHA, VA, CMS, HHS, and more, it’s your go-to source for the latest scoop to stay strong in 2025! Check it out here.

🐝The Morning Buzz:

• All Protests on $10B Polaris GWAC Small Business GWAC Dismissed – But it’s far from over
• Protest Dismissed on $415M NRC Development and Integration Vehicle for Applications (DIVA) BPA
• Last Chance:⏰Tonight: Austin LINKS – VA Networking Happy Hour
• Tris Carpenter shared: Missile Defense Agency posts $5B+ Agile Professional Services Solution (MAPSS) acquisition strategy
• 🌶 The increasingly powerful Digital WOSB Alliance reveals 2025 Board of Directors
• Food and Drug Administration focused 8(a) small businesses to know – Here we spotlight those firms drawing interest of late. Meet them here.

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

• The Silent Shred – The Silent Shred – New Administration Contract Cancellations picking up steam (ED Modernization award killed off)
• GSA seeks 50% spending cuts, nonvoluntary RIF after OPM’s resignation offer
• USAID personnel to be on administrative leave globally as of Feb 7
• Nathan Manzotti launches #EmployeeProtectionAssist to help federal employees to know their rights
• Robert Shea shared: A first step in making all CIOs political?
• Cancelled: CDC Small Business Engagement Summit: Ignite and Inspire
• Cancelled: With great reluctance, we announce the cancellation of the Engage FedGov event

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

• Veteran and Military Champion Josh Quill rejoins VA
• Infotrend Inc. elevates Raman Singh to President
• Partner Forces welcomes Jaclyn Houser as Director Advancing DHS Portfolio Projects
• Agile Defense adds Michael Pansky as Chief Product Officer and Bob McCord named to Board of Directors
• Fedstack adds Mike Marshall as Senior VP, Client Solutions
• Ivanti adds Steven Harvey to serve as Sales Director – National Security Programs
• ICYMI (we did) – David Sullivan is Excellium Corp’s new President and CEO
• On heels of several wins Precise adds Jeremy James as Senior VP of FedCiv business unit
• poolside recruits Paul Almeida as Head of Public Sector
• Indigo IT adds Megan Ward to drive Business Development
• SMX recruits Samantha Moore from AWS to serve as VP of DOD services

AND Meet Maximus Federal Health Director Jennifer Hummel – Leveraging DOD and DHA Perspective and Advancing Relationships with an Eye on the Digital Door

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⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• NIH awards $147M Center for Information Technology (CIT) Cloud Professional Support Services BPA
• FDA awards $100M Regulatory Review Support BPA
• TSA: Ongoing IMPSS Protest forces award on Personnel Futures Program (PFP) PMO Support Task
• ED: In advance of DMCS-Next award, $150M Debt Management and Collection System (DMCS) contract to be sole sourced
• IRS: Terrestris beats out 2 to secure IRA NH DMPG Training & Development contract
• USDA: Koniag awarded $25M OCIO Network Voice Engineering and Security Services contract
• USDA: ARETUM awarded OIG IT Division Accreditation Services contract
• VA: RAND Corporation adds Veterans Affairs Productivity Study contract
• US Army: Booz Allen Hamilton awarded $56M Joint CBRND PAIO Support task on OASIS
• DOD DHRA: TechAnax and OBXtek JV scores FVAP.gov website support
• US Navy NAVWAR to award Digital Transformation Support contract to Strategic Insight

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

• BridgePhase Mosaic Digital Suite of Solutions deemed Awardable by the P1 Solutions Marketplace
• RIVA led RIVIT Alliance Awarded GSA MAS, Strengthening Federal Procurement Opportunities 
• Lasso Security Forms Strategic Partnership with Swish Data to Deliver Cybersecurity for Generative AI
• i3, LLC Announces Award of Navy SeaPort NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC)
• Risk Mitigation Consulting awarded $95M Navy Mission Assurance (MA) assessments and cyber contract
• Everfox Announces MESA: Revolutionizing Secure Cross Domain Collaboration

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• Re: Pluribus Digital – … has proven to be an exceptional business partner to Coforma over the past 5 years…Their unwavering support, technical proficiency, and alignment with Coforma’s goals and values … More here.

🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• CISA to flip Consolidated Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Support RFP to OASIS+ SB
• VA Sources Sought: Artificial Intelligence Assisted Procurement Tools (AIAPT)
• DOD DSCA Sources Sought: Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) Support
• Missile Defense Agency posts $5B+ Agile Professional Services Solution (MAPSS) acquisition strategy

Magpie Health Analytics: Telling Stories, Connecting Data, & Building Trust to Transform Healthcare – Looking back on a decade’s worth of experience focused on CMS, Bil Westerfield shares some insight into how this team has become a trusted advisor and partner, advice for others who may wish to follow suit, and what’s ahead for this growing firm as it looks to expand its reach, and relationships. Read on here.