A number of service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, to include VETS 2 Primes, are on the hunt for partners who can help them provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with services to ensure that electronic documents that are fully compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. This is in response to an active RFI on eBuy.
The focus and overall scope for this contract includes providing services that render information communication technology, including electronic documents that are fully compliant with the stated requirements and that all contract deliverables are considered VA products and shall conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA or higher as directed by the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), VA Handbook 6221, and the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) standards.
These documents can include but are not limited to: Microsoft Office products (Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, etc.), Adobe Acrobat PDF files, Adobe Creative Suite products and InDesign products, and the contractor shall provide CommonLook PDF or CommonLook Office test results showing no failures with each remediated document.
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Three Dozen VA focused firms drawing the most attention:
Below is a list of the companies we have noted as drawing the most views by Government and industry leaders on the OrangeSlices AI consultant directory over the past quarter and that bring direct past performance and/or related relationships in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs
- GovCIO **
- Aptive **
- Ibility **
- PingWind **
- PGT
- JJR Solutions **
- Sierra7 **
- Ad Hoc **
- McKinsey & Company **
- Blue Water Thinking
- IronArch Technology **
- Leidos
- Gunnison Consulting Group
- Amida **
- Coforma **
- Prometheus Federal Services (PFS) **
- Sprezzatura
- Agile Six **
- Eleven09 **
- IT Concepts **
- Oddball **
- DOMA Technologies
- CVP **
- Oasys International **
- Savan Group **
- Innovative Management Concepts (IMC) **
- RC4Vets
- EM Key Solutions (EMKS) **
- Syms Strategic Group
- SoKat **
- 9th Way Insignia
- The Green Technology Group **
- MBL Technologies **
- Tria Federal
- ReefPoint Group
- DecisionPoint
Several of the companies on this list are Elev8 GovCon Honorees, noted for a corporate culture that demonstrates excellence, making them a beacon for talent, for partners, and for clients.
We cannot and will not speculate here as to the reasons for the increased interest, but whether it is a company evaluating them as a potential partner; a federal acquisition leader doing their due diligence; or a consultant weighing their next job move, this group of companies has been receiving increased interest.
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ATG Innovations (ATGI) is an EDWOSB with 508 compliance and remediation expertise supporting the VA and DoD. Using skilled resources with extensive technical writing and 508 compliance expertise, ATGI supports the careful restoration and usability of files. Documentation management is a core capability within ATGI, demonstrated through direct experience creating 2000+ federal deliverables and remediating more than 5,000 pages of electronic material to meet Section 508 compliance standards.
AQIWO has extensive experience in accessibility inclusive of programmatic expertise (e.g., policy creation, education and training, resource hub creation, and stakeholder buy-in) and technical capabilities (e.g.., Voluntary Product Accessibility Template [VPAT]/Accessibility Conformance Report [ARC] reviews and authoring; Section 508 compliance reviews of web pages, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, and PDFs; and annual Section 508 assessments/reporting to the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration).
Think Systems is a certified SB and we have a lot of 508 experience in CMS supporting the CTC/TQC contract. This project has us performing 508 audits on hundreds of training products (web-based, self-paced and non-self paced), MS documents, and PDFs, consisting of tens of thousands of pages each year. We provide audit reports, remediation recommendations, and establish processes to streamline the 508 testing process to ensure our high-volume throughput can be accomplished with a turnaround time shorter than that which is requested in the VA RFI.