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Corps of Engineers O&M Contract Award Worth Almost $1 Billion
The Department of Defense has announced the award of a $990 million firm-fixed-price shared contract award for operations and maintenance services. The work will be performed at government medical and related non-medical facilities including hospitals, clinics, administrative, pharmacies, veterinarian, dental, training, research, utility and … Continue reading
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GAO Adds IT Acquisitions to High Risk List
The Government Accountability Office has released its biennial High Risk List and announced the addition of two new areas, including Improving the Management of IT Acquisitions and Operations. Every two years at the start of a new Congress, GAO calls attention to agencies … Continue reading
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FAC 2005-80: Trafficking in Persons, Services Acquistions
The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council have issued Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-80, which contains three final rules amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The rules are: Item I—Ending Trafficking in Persons (FAR Case 2013-001), Item II—Management and … Continue reading
GAO Denies Protest of $3.01 and $2.55 Billion NASA Commercial Space Transportation Awards
The Comptroller General has denied Sierra Nevada Corporation’s protest of two contract awards for the development of commercial crew space transportation capability. The technical evaluation subfactor of the request for proposals included consideration of the offeror’s approach to obtaining government certification of its … Continue reading
OSC Proposal Would Extend Whistleblower Protections to Contractors
The Office of Special Counsel has proposed an expansion of its regulations to add federal contractors, subcontractors, and grantees to the list those who can blow the whistle on federal government wrongdoing and expect protection after doing so. The regulatory … Continue reading
Corps of Engineers Adds 10 More Awardees to $2.5 Billion Utility Monitoring and Control Systems Contract
According to the Department of Defense, the Army Corps of Engineers has added ten more contractors to the previously announced $2,500,000,000, multiple-award, firm-fixed-price contract for services related to the procurement and installation of utility monitoring and control systems. The contract also includes similar services such as … Continue reading
Navy Awards $2.5 Billion in IDIQ Network Systems Contracts
The Department of Defense has announced that CGI Federal Inc., of Fairfax, Virginia, and DRS Laurel Technologies, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services production units. CANES serves … Continue reading