Mary Beth Bosco HIGHLIGHTS: • The U.S. federal government announced new Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rules that set high-level standards for the basic safeguarding of contractor information systems that process, store or transmit federal contract information. • The new FAR rules are effective July 15, 2016, and apply to all contractors except [...]
Courtesy of Jared Serbu- Federal Radio The Defense Department will likely have to make significant changes to a much-anticipated IT services contract known as ENCORE III following a legal decision that upheld challenges by two prospective bidders. The GAO ruled Wednesday that DISA failed to come up with a reasonable basis for [...]
By: Statia Marrocco We’ve identified an opportunity for clients to gain visibility with government customers and with other industry partners while supporting a great cause. This summer, three cyclists will ride across the USA to raise funds to improve our youth’s access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This initiative, officially [...]
Written by: Anton Reut THE OPPORTUNITY: GSA estimates that Alliant 2 will bill over $25 billion during its contract life. It’s not surprising that over 200 companies are preparing to bid on this keystone contract opportunity. Our partners RASA/ONA understand the Government objectives for this procurement and the motivations of the competitors [...]
By: Anton Reut Will you be ready -- when Alliant 2 is released on or about June 20th? Companies will have 60 days to figure out and understand what everything means and finish preparing their submission. Given the history of OASIS, HCaTS, and the questions and answers/clarifications for VETS 2, submitting a [...]
There is one area of the contract life cycle where many companies still have not incorporated project management processes to increase their likelihood of success. This is the recompete capture phase – where an incumbent is preparing to bid to retain an existing contract. Some might think that Capture processes cover this [...]
By Anton Reut & Brian Friel GSA is about to revise the Alliant procurement rules to allow more bidders in the tent. The primary problem is the stringent rules on contractor teaming arrangements (CTA). In this article, we explain the forthcoming changes in the rules and what this means to you. The [...]
Written by: Ron Trettau The long delayed ALLIANT 2 RFP will be released soon. Unless you want to miss out on the largest and most lucrative IT contract to be released this decade, you need to get on top of this right now. The Government spends over four billion dollars a year [...]
Note: Kevin Carroll was previously in charge of the ITES, ADMC and CHS programs as the Army Program Executive Officer, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS). He is probably the leading authority on Army programs outside of Government. Biggest thing to remember is that ITES 2S had a lot of different customers [...]
Loading Video Player... In January, we held our first breakfast series to discuss pressing issues in the industry like rapid task order response. In June, we will be offering a follow up one day course on Effectively Managing Task Order Responses. This course offers a simple and reliable process for [...]
