2+ week, 6+ day ago   (215+ words) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is rethinking the award decisions it made earlier this summer for its $3.5 billion blanket purchase agreement for a range of data-related and research services. Accenture Federal Services and the Rand Corporation were left…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1223+ words) Your team goes to work the only way it knows how. Capture asks for win themes. Someone tries to schedule a gold review. The earliest the executive team can convene is two weeks out. Your process runs more than fifty…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (586+ words) On Monday the Pentagon announced that it was suspending Phase II requirements for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. Phase I, self-assessments, will continue. Phase II is paused for “a comprehensive review of CMMC.” My reaction to this was “Oh,…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (362+ words) A group of companies are challenging aspects of the criteria being used to evaluate proposals for the Army’s $50 billion MAPS professional services contract. After several delays, the Army pushed the deadline for proposals for the Marketplace for the Acquisition of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (241+ words) Gettyimages.com / Sean Gladwell Computacenter, a U.K.-headquartered technology services provider, has agreed to acquire IT product reseller Government Acquisitions Inc. for an initial $63 million cash consideration that marks a foray into the U.S. federal market. GAI opened for business in 1989 and…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (326+ words) The Army has started to move away from a multiple-year plan to consolidate its various business systems by not renewing its contract with Accenture's U.S. federal subsidiary for the Enterprise Business Systems – Convergence program. The Army declined to exercise the second-year…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (216+ words) The protest issues swirling around the Army’s $50 billion MAPS vehicle have added a few new twists and turns. We reported earlier this week that the TechSur-Guidehouse Joint Venture had withdrawn its protest. This week, it refiled. Meanwhile, ICF International saw…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (13+ words) Demand across the Defense Department has exceeded the scope of the original contract....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (701+ words) President Trump’s new executive order on government acquisition is pushing agencies to use more fixed-price contracts as a way of establishing more procurements that reward outcomes and performance. The Promoting Efficiency, Accountability, and Performance in Federal Contracting executive order was…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (357+ words) The General Services Administration is touting milestones for its OneGov initiative, which the agency unveiled roughly a year ago as its means to consolidate how federal government’s purchases of many commercial technology offerings. Since OneGov’s launch in April 2025, GSA has…...