Navy chooses 8 for $1.5B Microsoft product support pact
This second iteration of the Microsoft Enterprise Services contract was reserved for small businesses and covers work across the entire lifecycle of the brand name offerings. The Navy has awarded eight companies positions on a five-year, $1.5 billion contract vehicle for enterprise support and engineering services focused on Microsoft products and cloud services. Only small businesses […]
DHS cancels pair of massive IT, professional services vehicles
As the Homeland Security Department sees things, neither FirstSource III nor PACTS III fit into how the Trump administration wants civilian contracting to be done. The Homeland Security Department will not proceed with its work to finalize awards for a pair of IT and professional services contracts that had roughly $18.4 billion in combined ceiling value […]
SBA to audit 8(a) contracting program
The Small Business Administration cites the guilty pleas of a former contracting officer and industry executives in a decades-long bribery scheme. The Small Business Administration will carry out an audit of its contracting program focused on small businesses with the 8(a) socioeconomic distinction. SBA’s Office of General Contracting and Business Development will look at contracts awarded over […]
Protests hit newest round of GSA’s OASIS+ small business selections
Five companies are arguing that they should also be on the government-wide professional services vehicle’s apparent winners list. Several companies have filed protests after apparently failing to make the cut for the General Services Administration’s newest round of apparent awardees the OASIS+ vehicle. On June 20, GSA named 131 more small businesses to the massive government-wide vehicle for […]
Secure comms with allies is hard. The Pentagon wants to change that
The department is working on an effort to streamline a complex set of classified networks they use with allies and partners. The Pentagon wants to simplify its classified networks—so it’s testing out a secure, cloud-based network on a British aircraft carrier in the Indo-Pacific, a top defense tech official announced Thursday. The Defense Department has been […]
WT 360: Nextgov/FCW’s Edward Graham on the Veterans Affairs’ contract controversy
Edward Graham, our Nextgov/FCW colleague who covers VA, jumps in to break down why some lawmakers are pressing the department for transparency on its use of artificial intelligence in deciding which contracts to cancel. The Veterans Affairs Department is coming under heightened scrutiny after it emerged that artificial intelligence likely played a role in VA’s […]