Acquisition

Complaints mount about NITAAC's slow payment plan for CIO-SP4 protests

ANALYSIS | Many of the companies who won protests over the CIO-SP4 contract still have not been reimbursed for their costs and they are not happy about it.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Federal buyers have a new 'co-pilot' to get good deals for government

The new Procurement Co-Pilot brings data together from across the government — something that’s historically been difficult to do.

  • By Natalie Alms

Lockheed Martin tapped to develop NOAA’s new series of weather satellites

Lockheed Martin won a contract to build three satellites for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations program, with the option to develop an additional four spacecraft, under a $2.27 billion award announced on Tuesday.

  • By Edward Graham

VA extends EHR contract with Oracle Cerner for 11 months

The agreement comes after Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said the department plans to end its pause on deployments of the modernized electronic health record system during fiscal year 2025.

  • By Edward Graham

CACI wins $2B NASA IT centralization job

The space agency is looking to standardize and consolidate how it manages IT systems and applications.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Interior awards 7 seats on $2B cloud license contract

This second iteration of the program focuses on the development of a cloud-based production environment and application migration.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Army lifts curtains on planned $1B software development contract

The Army calls out specific modern practices it wants to incorporate and asks industry about others that could work here too.

  • By Ross Wilkers

FBI says it has awarded $7B ITSSS-2 pact

The award notice lacks an actual list of winners, but does have 31 companies in the full-and-open track and 64 in the small business group.

  • By Nick Wakeman

VA extends Oracle's EHR contract for 1 month

Lawmakers are pressing for more accountability in the multibillion dollar contract amid delays, system downtime and patient safety concerns.

  • By Edward Graham

Google Cloud obtains FedRAMP High certification for more than 100 services

The security controls are available to all customers — inside government and out.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Pre-award protests cleared in FBI's $7B IT services pact

The Government Accountability Office rejects the last pre-award protest involving this blanket purchase agreement for IT services and supplies.

  • By Nick Wakeman

White House procurement office marks 50 years

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has evolved since its inception to ensure the government is “buying as one,” as demonstrated in a new circular on acquisition data and information issued Tuesday.

  • By Natalie Alms

GSA names 7 leaders to inaugural FedRAMP board

The move comes as GSA and OMB modernize the cloud security program to implement recent legislative changes.

  • By Adam Mazmanian
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Connolly presses EPA on air quality IT with new bill

Legislation the Virginia Democrat introduced Tuesday would codify watchdog recommendations to assess decades-old systems at the EPA.

  • By Natalie Alms

Spy agencies must craft safeguards for using sensitive commercial data, ODNI says

The new framework follows a report last year that showed the intelligence community frequently relies on purchased sensitive information.

  • By David DiMolfetta

Microsoft deploys air-gapped AI for classified defense, intelligence customers

GPT-4 will be on offer for classified workloads via Azure Government Top Secret.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Agencies awarded record-breaking $179B to small businesses in FY23

The Small Business Administration’s annual procurement scorecard found that 22 federal agencies received an “A” rating or higher when it came to meeting their contracting goals.

  • By Edward Graham

House panel advances bill to make federal contracting easier to understand

The Plain Language in Contracting Act would require agencies to use easy-to-understand language for certain procurement notices pertaining to small businesses.

  • By Natalie Alms

Oracle achieves authorization to host secret classified data

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is now available to U.S. government customers at all classification levels.

  • By Frank Konkel

New rule cements sustainability mandate for federal buyers

A new update to the Federal Acquisition Regulation is meant to help the government meet goals for net-zero procurement by 2050.

  • By Natalie Alms

Google Public Sector ‘hitting our stride’ in government market, CEO says

Nextgov/FCW caught up with Google Public Sector Chief Executive Officer Karen Dahut at Google Cloud NEXT.

  • By Frank Konkel