Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Although Congress averted a Government shutdown on October 1 by passing a temporary spending bill, we may be headed toward a shutdown next month. As many Federal Government contractors have experienced during prior Government shutdowns, some portions of the Government — primarily those not funded through annual appropriations bills or that provide “essential services” — may continue to operate (often without pay or access to certain resources), while others shut down immediately, leaving contra

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We recently authored an article for Reuters examining Commercial Solutions Openings, a contracting mechanism through the Department of Defense (DoD), which seeks innovative commercial technologies or services. We defined CSOs as “another pathway for nontraditional technology companies to provide goods and services to the federal government. They are used ‘to obtain innovative solutions or potential capabilities that fulfill requirements; to close capability gaps, or provide potential innovative

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the nonprofit biological resource center and standards organization American Type Culture Collection a contract with a total value of $333 million to support the Biological and Emerging Infections Research Resources Program.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Procurement 6 is a short podcast from Art of Procurement that publishes in the Art of Procurement feed every Friday. The post Procurement 6 – October 20th, 2023 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center has released a draft request for proposals for a potential five-year, $180 million follow-on, multiple-award contract for ocean engineering support services.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Friday is the end of the beginning for the General Services Administration’s years’ long effort to develop the OASIS+ professional services contract. After two years of planning, meetings, feedback and answering almost 900 questions about the final solicitations, vendors’ bids are due tomorrow. Tiffany Hixson, GSA’s assistant commissioner for the Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories in the Federal Acquisition Service, said she is cautiously optimistic about moving forward

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In data transformation, it helps to view things through a different lens. “It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector at Snowflake, a leading data cloud company. “Think of the quality data that lives and breathes as an ecosystem.” As data management health grows, so does the entire organization.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Credence Management Solutions has won a potential five-year, $898.7 million task order from the U.S. Agency for International Development to provide administrative, operational and technical support services for USAID’s bureau for humanitarian assistance, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Why did the Hollywood writers’ strike take so long to resolve and why is the screen actors’ guild still on. The post Negotiating Lessons from Hollywood Labor appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Information technology services provider 22nd Century Technologies has acquired public safety technology developer Queues Enforth Development for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of government software offerings. QED specializes in computer-aided dispatch and records management software systems that support over 300 state, local and federal public safety organizations, TSCTI said Tuesday.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In July, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted enhanced requirements regarding material cybersecurity incidents and reporting. Through the SEC Whistleblower Program , whistleblowers may qualify for monetary awards for reporting violations of these new cybersecurity disclosure rules. According to the SEC, the new rules “enhance and standardize” disclosures of cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance by public companies under the reporting guidelines of the 1934

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Andrew Wallinger, a nearly 10-year ManTech veteran, has taken on the role of vice president of intel technology at the Herndon, Virginia-based federal technology services contractor, he announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. He most recently served as the company’s technical director for the intel sector.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A bipartisan trio of senators has introduced legislation intended to improve and streamline the customer service provided by federal agencies, targeting shorter wait times and better digital services. The Improving Government Services Act , sponsored by Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., James Lankford, R-Okla., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, would require certain agencies to develop an “annual customer experience action plan” within a year of enactment of the bill, providing details on how to o

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 19, 2023

HII’s Mission Technologies division has won a $134 million contract to provide readiness and training software development support for the U.S. Navy. The task order has a 1-year base period plus four 1-year options. It falls under the Naval Sea Systems Command’s SeaPort Next Generation contract in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren [.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On October 17, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan announced that IPC Hospitalists of Michigan Inc. has agreed to pay a total of $4,384,618 to settle allegations of violating the False Claims Act (FCA). The case alleges that IPC Hospitalists of Michigan, Inc. engaged in upcoding of inpatient hospital services. As well as allowing their doctors to bill for more services than they could possibly provide in one day and for services that were not rendered.

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Government Contracts Navigator

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Robyn N. Burrows ● Effective December 4, 2023, a new interim rule will prohibit contractors from delivering or using covered articles and sources subject to exclusion or removal orders issued under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 (“FASCSA”). The rule is intended to eliminate certain technology from the federal supply chain that foreign … Continue reading "Starting December 4th, Contractors Must Rid Supply Chains of Covered Articles and Sources Subject to FASC Orde

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Frank Backes, formerly a senior vice president at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS), has been named CEO at synthetic aperture radar satellite developer Capella Space. He will assume the position on Oct. 23 and succeed outgoing CEO Payam Banazadeh, who will remain on the company’s board of directors, Capella Space said Tuesday.

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Spend Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the dynamic global trade landscape, successful exporting requires a strategic approach that leverages valuable insights and data-driven decision-making. One often untapped source of actionable information is government procurement data. Integrating this data into your export strategy can provide a powerful blueprint for success, offering valuable insights into market trends, demand patterns, and growth opportunities.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Defense contractors are in focus lately and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is the first to report third-quarter earnings since recently. In the three months that ended Sept. 24, 2023, net sales increased nearly two percent to $16.9 billion compared to the third quarter in 2022. Lockheed said Tuesday its net earnings reached $1.68 billion.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On October 17, the second day of Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2023, Davis Polk hosted a panel discussion entitled “ Investor Information Rights: All Bark and No Bite? Managing Their Effectiveness ”. The panel considered a hypothetical case study covering the life cycle of an equity investment into a renewable energy company and explored the legal and practical considerations for investors when negotiating and enforcing information rights.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jennifer Swanson When fully realized, digital engineering in the Army will take engineering process components represented in disconnected documents and unify them in a virtual setting, Jennifer Swanson, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software, said in a May interview with Breaking Defense.

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The finalists for WashingtonExec’s 2023 Pinnacle Awards were announced Sept. 25, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov. 16. Next is Business Development Executive of the Year finalist in the Private Company category with annual revenues greater than $250M Sean Mullen, who is executive vice president of [.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

FAR & Beyond: The FAS Realignment: Opportunities for “Dead Easy!” With the start of the new fiscal year (FY24), the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) launched its much-anticipated organizational realignment. The realignment breaks down regional stovepipes across FAS, creating a more customer focused structure to support federal agencies and industry partners serving those agencies.

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Allison Patrick Vice President, Homeland Security, SAIC Allison Patrick and her team are very proud of the work they do to support U.S. Customs and Border Protection as the agency responds to the humanitarian crisis at the border, every day. SAIC is continuously seeking to deliver solutions that deliver data in a simplified manner to [.

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Utrecht University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Professor Fredo Schotanus will advocate in this conceptual talk for more deliberate decisions regarding the introduction of competition.

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Tim Durham Senior Vice President & Sector Leader Engineering & Technical Services Sector, Parsons Corp. Tim Durham recently led Parsons’ team in winning the contract for Cyber Command’s Enterprise Systems Engineering & Integration support. This contract is crucial for developing the agency’s enterprise architecture and governance.

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Government Contract Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This month’s Bid Protest Roundup focuses on a recent U.S. Court of Federal Claims decision involving the limitations of the government’s deference defense and a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that involved the proper application and discretionary nature of the so-called close-at-hand principle.

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 19, 2023

CeCe Decamp Senior Partner, U.S. Federal Market, IBM Consulting CeCe Decamp’s biggest recent achievement was building a high-performing, diverse team in support of IBM Consulting’s national security clients. The introduction of the company’s new growth strategy opened up exciting prospects and nearly doubled the size of her team. Decamp is a valued member of the [.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A nearly seven-year-old litigation battle over allegations of bid-rigging in the award of a lucrative Denver International Airport concessions contract suddenly ended this week when the parties agreed to dismiss the suit after the first day of trial.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This week, the SBA published a press release affirming its continued support of its 8(a) Business Development Program in response to recent 8(a) Program attacks in the courts. In the press release, business industry leaders across the nation joined SBA Administrator, Isabella Casillas Guzman, in praising the 8(a) Program, its successful history, and its driving policy and spirit.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Big federal spending on dire events such as the 2008 financial crisis and natural disasters has usually resulted in the government later filing numerous civil fraud suits, and the trillions of dollars in pandemic relief may be no exception once the clearer cases of criminal fraud have been prosecuted.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Federal customers are often challenged by integrating data across multiple systems and providing federated access to authenticated users operating across multiple organizations. These challenges are rooted in siloed data repositories, decentralized and incompatible identity data types, and a lack of unified data access control across disparate organizations.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

An engineering firm employee who worked in the nation's nuclear weapons program accepted more than $1 million in kickbacks from a subcontractor in a decadelong scheme to steer design and build contracts for weapons-related products toward the subcontractor's company, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment unsealed Thursday.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Private prison giant CoreCivic Inc. agreed to notify detainees in the nation's largest immigration detention center of their labor rights to end allegations that detainees were forced to help run the facility, the detainees' attorneys said Thursday.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest by IBM over the terms of a solicitation to modernize the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' supply chain, saying the VA reasonably scrutinized bidders' financial health as part of the deal.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The federal government has told the U.S. Supreme Court to deny two casino operators' application to pause the implementation of a D.C. Circuit ruling that backed a novel gambling pact giving the Seminole Tribe of Florida exclusive rights to offer sports betting in the state.

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