Win Day🔥- CMS Cloud/VA Agile/IRS LTIS3/DOE ITSSS 2/USDA Analytics/DHA PEOSS/USAF PEO Digital/ CDC pulls GHC funds; Army EXPRESS SB/MCC AS Protest📰

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🐝The Morning Buzz:

• CDAO’s Elizabeth Chirico shared: We want to work with you! See Mission Analytics’ RFPs on ACC-RI DRAID BOA
• DHS Digital Transformation Leader Scott Simpson shared: I am so proud of this team at U.S. Secret Service for the innovation that they’re trying in this BAA
• Art Trevethan, DOD innovation zealot, shared: Two significant Defense Innovation reports have been published. Check out an analysis here.
• 🍦The Peel Podcast: Modernizing Healthcare for Veterans – Karen Cinibulk, Vice President at Maximus and a 2025 FedHealth 150 honoree, shares her inspiring journey from her early career with the Department of Veterans Affairs to leading transformative initiatives in federal health at Maximus. Listen here.

The Juice🥤: Big Investments do not guarantee Big results, but they do signify intent! Some leaders set to make an impact in 2025:

• CMS recruits new Division of Enrollment Policy & Operations leader
• VA recruits former AWS and Cerner leader to serve as Deputy Executive Director, VHA Communications
• VA VBA Discretionary Budget Director takes Deputy Assistant Chief Financial Officer for Budget role at HUD
• DHS CBP recruits new HR IT leader from DOJ
• Longtime Salesforce Sr VP Casey Coleman heads to ServiceNow
• Rapidly growing WOSB Partner Forces promotes Greg Raaberg and formalizes Cyber Community of Practice
• Karthik Consulting taps Felix Martin as Chief Growth Officer
• Metronome recruits former DOD Platform One Party Bus Driver Steven Ollek to guide Innovation
• Ambrosia Patterson joins Accenture as Huntsville Practice and Strategy Lead
• Node.Digital welcomes Brian Fitzpatrick to exec leadership team as Chief Growth Officer
• LMI welcomes Tech Executive Matthew Boehm as Vice President, Program Management
• More Big Hires: ExpediteInfoTech welcomes J.P.Hachem to drive Business Development
• Sean Egger tapped to be VP of Growth, Civil Solutions with Leidos
• Raymond “RJ” Welsh takes new challenge as Vice President of Programs at Red River
• Leidos taps Milton Yang to be Vice President, Defense Systems Programs Director

🎯  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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• CDC pulls funding on Global Health Center (GHC) Management Consulting Services task

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⚖ GAO and the Courts – Check out the latest:

• Last GAO Protest Withdrawn: US Army EXPRESS Small Business On-Ramp
• Protest Denied: $33M Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CGM Acquisition Support Services IDIQ

🔍 Been heads down working on a proposal? Search and track all the latest protest activity here

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.

⚡Check out some of the key Contract Awards:

• CMS: LeCor Technology Services wins $46M Cloud Infrastructure Sppt Services contract
• CMS awards Tier II Policy Help Desk System and Operational support contract to LMI
• VA: Big month for Oddball – beats 6 to win $13M MyVA and Profile Digital Services task
• VA: Vaultes and Bixal Solutions JV wins $9M VA SPRUCE Agile Delivery Services task
• VA: 9th Way Insignia wins Industry Standards Development & Content Review support contract
• DOE: Maximus wins $62M Information Technology Support Services 2 task on CIO-SP3
• DOE Contract Award: Office of Management and Project Management Exec Secretary & Admin Support
• IRS: Deloitte scores $205M OCIO CADE2 Long Term Integration Support 3 (LTIS 3) task
• IRS: Zartek Solutions wins again, adds OCIO Third-Party Authorization Support contract
• EPA: Savan awarded CRTB Technical Support Services task
• USDA: SDVOSB wins Budget and Program Analysis Office Data Analytics Support contract
• NIST Contract Award: Public Research Data Distribution System (DDS) Software Engineering task
• NOAA Contract Award: PMEL Live Access Server and Data Management Tool Development
• USAGM: Lentech wins Government Retirement and Benefits (GRB) Platform hosting services contract
• DHA: Deloitte wins BSO (J1/J8/SS) Program Execution Support Services task on OASIS
• DHA TRICARE Management Activity awards Health Plan Innovative Support contract to Deloitte
• Navy: HigherEchelon wins Chief of Naval Personnel Career Transition Seminar support contract
• USAF: Allen Integrated Solutions wins Concepts, Development, & Management Office Support award
• Army: CMS beats out 4 to win El Paso MEPS Applicant Management Services (AMS) task
• DoD WHS Contract Award: Armed Forces Retirement Home Professional, Analytical, and Tech Support
• USAF: ACEs wins Special Operations Command (AFSOC) Training Operations Support
• USAF: Booz Allen Hamilton scores PEO Digital and Enterprise Services task on Alliant 2

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🎯GovCon events to get in on now:

• #TeamPingWind is hosting a Department of Veteran Affairs Industry Happy Hour
• Registration Open: 2025 CMS Quality Conference: Elevating Quality – Advancing Optimal Health

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

• GovCIO Partners with VA to Expand Veterans Legacy Memorial, Introducing New Living Veteran Feature
• Citizant Wins Trifecta of OASIS+ IDIQ Contracts
• HumanTouch awarded NIH NIAID small business IDIQ
• Savan announces OASIS + contract award
• Seventh Sense JV (Mac Sense) adds DOE Transitional Administrative and Operational Support IDIQ

🌶 Solicitation Updates/Opportunities Drawing Interest:

• Tris Carpenter shared: DOT ITS posts Q&A for Complete Streets Artificial Intelligence (AI) Phase II initiative
• CBP Pre-Solicitation: Technical Integration Management Support (TIMS)
• Coast Guard Pre-Solicitation: Contract Operations (CG-912) / Procurement Policy and Oversight (CG-913) Support
• Coast Guard to award non-competitive APEO-933 Acquisitions Support Case Management 8(a) STARS III task
• CISA to award non-competitive Cloud Migration & O&M of IP Gateway Bridge contract
• ICE Forecast: M&A/CIO IT Training & Communication Services (ITaCS)
• ICE Forecast: M&A/CIO LeadTrac O&M
• DOE RFQ: Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) SBIR
• NATO RFI: Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), CUIP, and Digital Transformation (DT) Capabilities
• National Guard Bureau (NGB) RFQ: NCR Network Enterprise Center (NEC) IT Support Services
• USTRANSCOM Sources Sought: Defense Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) Recompete
• USAF Sources Sought: Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Initiative (MROi) Process Support
• Army Special Notice: C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) Call For White Papers
• Army to competitively develop Next-Gen Command-and-Control prototype

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• Thank you to OrangeSlices AI for highlighting Connected Logistics as a “US Army focused small business to know“! With task order awards of ~$160M under the ITES-3S IDIQ supporting Soldiers, Army Civilians, and contractors around the world, we couldn’t agree more. See the post here.
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