DOD opens proposal window for $510M data, analytics contract
The Defense Department structured this multiple-award effort to further enable the use of data in managing force structure and mission activities. The Defense Department’s lead organization for acquiring administrative and management support services on behalf of other DOD entities is now ready to accept proposals for a potential five-year, $510 million data and analytics support contract. […]
ANALYSIS: A less burdened customer collective also means a more powerful one
Don’t confuse the Trump administration’s push for agencies to have a leaner acquisition framework as making everything easier for contractors. Keeping them as customers might just get harder. Much of what people in GovCon have said they wanted to see for many years *might* be about to happen as the Trump administration pushes to overhaul how […]
A silent end for NITAAC?
Both websites for the National Institutes of Health’s CIO-SP and CIO-CS contract vehicles are dark, leading to questions over whether the long-time contract vehicles are being shuttered. The NIH IT Acquisition and Assessment Center has fallen silent in the past few weeks. NITAAC’s public-facing website has disappeared and the the National Institutes of Health’s press office is […]
Maintain to sustain: why CMMC is a continued practice
Dr. Thomas Graham, vice president and chief information security officer at Redspin, lays out key principles for contractors to follow in the preparation and execution of their compliance with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. As of December 16, 2024, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) rule went into effect, stating that in the near future, all […]
WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on GSA, Google and the government as a single whole customer
Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec’s publications including us, jumps in to go over Google’s massive discounted offering to agencies and how that pact with the General Services Administration will not be the last like it. Google set off quite the reaction when the tech giant’s offer to discount its cloud-based productivity suite at 71% for […]