8/28/2014 Rarely has the pending release of a federal government agency IDIQ occurred while the agency is generating so much news. Recent events surrounding the Veterans Administration include the appropriation of some $16 billion in new funding to address scheduling deficiencies uncovered at the agency and the resignation of the Secretary followed [...]
The package arrived on a Saturday as l recall. I opened it and found the book, The Loss That Is Forever, subtitled, The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father, by Maxine Harris, Ph.D. I began to read and could not put the book down, having lost my [...]
On large and small RFPs, the Government may respond to dozens or hundreds of questions. On the EAGLE II RFP, there were over 1,000 questions from industry that the Government answered. Too often the questions are not adequately evaluated or even reviewed by important members of the proposal team. How to efficiently [...]
On May 21, 2014, the Army Contracting Command-New Jersey (ACC-NJ) posted a draft solicitation for the Program and Systems Support (PASS) procurement on behalf of the Naval Air System Command (NAVAIR Corporate Business Office (CBO)). The draft solicitation does not include a sample task and also does not include six of the [...]
Michael Neyland Introduction to AFCAP IV (Air Force Contract Augmentation Program)AFCAP IV is a full and open $5B Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Task Order solicitation to provide worldwide civil engineer and services support for contingency operations other than war. The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency (AFICA), Wright Patterson AFB, OH. is [...]
Larry Tracy June 27, 2014 Shakespeare’s Juliette said, "A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." General Motors learned that was not so when it introduced a new model, the Chevrolet Nova, to Mexico. Unfortunately for GM, “No Va” means “no go” in Spanish. I recently listened to a [...]
June 27, 2014 USAF Contract Augmentation Program IV (AFCAP IV) The U.S Air Force, Civil Engineering Center Detachment 1, Tyndall (AFCEC) plans to release AFCAP IV sometime in late 2014. AFCAP III has four incumbents and a $5 billion ceiling. AFCAP IV is slated to have a $10 billion ceiling with up [...]
Aronson LLC Federal government contractors have never faced as many significant changes as they will experience over the next few years. With flat-to-down budgets, dramatically increased oversight, higher costs of doing business, significant new rules and regulations and severely squeezed profit margins, government contractors absolutely must rethink what they’re doing and how [...]
Mike Summers, OCI Vice President of Sales, and Jeff Simons, retired Government Assistant to the PEO STRI for TEACH weigh in on their thoughts about the strategy, release date and criteria to capture this $8B Multiple Award IDIQ TEACH Program Description TEACH (Train, Educate And CoacH) is a major new Multiple Award [...]
On April 2nd, DoD CIO Teri Takai addressed the audience at the “Security Through Innovation Summit” presented by Intel Security and FedScoop. Consolidation and standardization were the core themes of her comments as she answered questions from moderator Nigel Ballard, Director of Federal Marketing at Intel. Impact of New NIST Security Standards [...]
