While covering DLA’s continued work on their e-commerce portal, ECAT, we also discussed the online procurement portals created and hosted by GSA, like AutoChoice  and eBuy. Now, after a new legislative mandate, GSA has started a new initiative to utilize commercial e-commerce portals for federal procurement. Just last week, GSA announced the completion of “Phase I” of the new initiative: the implementation plan. As we discussed in 2017, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has been used as a vehicle...

UPDATE: On March 31st, NITAAC released the final list of SDVOSB awardees. The final list holds 2 less contractors than the pre-award announcement, with a final total of 38 awardees. LATEST UPDATE: The CIO-SP3 SDVOSB awards have already been hit with their first protest. Pro-Sphere Tek, Inc. filed a protest on April 5th, with a GAO decision scheduled for July 6th, according to the GAO docket.   After covering GWAC’s and the increase in competition, CIO-SP3 SB has come up as a...

The creation of a Special Item Number (SIN) for geographic information systems (GIS) services on IT Schedule 70 was a big sign that the Federal customer base for GIS is quickly widening beyond traditional customers like NGA. While new agencies like DIUx utilize new contracting methods such as the Other Transaction Authority to procure new GIS capabilities, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now planning a traditional IDIQ for GIS services, named after the office it will serve: the...

LATEST UPDATE: JEDI is facing more scrutiny from congress, and possible funding limitations. UPDATE 4/17/2018: DOD released the second draft of the JEDI RFP along with answers to 1,030 industry questions. Importantly, DOD is sticking with a single award for the 10-year program. However, in answers to the industry, DOD made an important distinction: “Offerors may propose any kind of teaming/partnering arrangement so long as the proposed solution meets the requirements of the solictiation.” This could seemingly include not only...

UPDATE 5/16/2018: DLA is planning a major IDIQ for medical supplies, known as Foreign Military Sales Medical Surgical (Med/Surg). Click here to read more about the new Tailored Logistics Support contract.  After covering the expansion of FedBid and the billions of dollars spent by Federal agencies on the “reverse auction” platform, and explaining GSA online procurement portals like eBuy  and GSA’s governmentwide vehicle purchasing portal known as AutoChoice, EZGovOpps will now cover a recent announcement regarding new contracts for DLA’s own e-commerce...

With government-wide IT modernization efforts taking shape in 2018, along with smaller agency programs like Army’s ACCENT, SBEAS from the Air Force, and EHR updates at the VA, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is now taking the initiative to begin planning its own IT modernization program. GAO recently published answers to some vendor questions for the planned effort, known as IT Transformation, Modernization and Operational Support Services (TMOSS), and is evaluating the acquisition strategies it will use to procure IT services...