How to Find Federal Government Contracts the Easy Way 6/3/2022 Much of what the federal government does is outsourced to companies that specialize in whatever products or services they happen to need. There are many rules and regulations that have been adopted for the sake of transparency and fairness for this process. The federal government procurement procedure is governed by the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). The FAR provides guidelines and contains references for the copious amount of clauses found in...

Military Construction Contract Opportunities in Fort Worth Engineering District 4/22/22 Fort Worth has a sprawling list of federal contract opportunities needing construction firms on the horizon. In the next several years, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction projects include training and development centers, dormitories, a joint-operations center, a central energy plant, a powertrain facility, renovations, and dam repair. Included are 15 installations within Texas and Louisiana and 764 projects which constitute $2.3 billion in design contracts and $4.4 billion in...

If You’re a Federal Contractor, You’ll Need a UEI. 3/2/2022 Back in March of 2019, the GSA awarded an Entity Validation Services contract to Ernst & Young to replace the Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS). We are finally getting close to April 4, 2022, when DUNS will be shuttered, and the new Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) will be adopted across the federal government. This includes sites such as SAM.gov, the Vendor Support Center (VSC) and GSA Interact....

The Integrated Award Environment (IAE) Industry Community has released a number of new Product Service Codes (PSCs) which are now in use for 2021. PSCs are used to categorize the products, services, and research and development (R&D) items that the federal government purchases. As new items are developed and sought after by the government, these codes need to evolve to meet new industry offerings, to further distinguish their differences, or to retire categories which are no longer relevant. The IAE...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has increased the capacity for awarded firms to construct alternate care facilities. These facilities will support Northwestern Division (NWD), United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and outlying areas as a response to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) outbreak. The total capacity expansion for the firm-fixed price and cost-reimbursement MATOCs is $10 Billion USD. The initial capacity will expand from $1,284,999,999 to $11,284,999,999. The category of funds anticipated to be employed on task orders will be Federal...

For Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) contracts expiring this year, 92% were awarded previously with no set-aside designated, and according to our analytics, only 0.012% were awarded to SDVOSB. The NRL is looking to boost their low SDVOSB set-aside rates dramatically with the help of Virginia PTAC and just announced its first Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Industry Day. The Industry Day will be taking place on March 19th at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. The program is geared towards SDVOSB but all...

A new supply chain management (SCM) services opportunity with principal NAICS 493190 was posted yesterday by the Department of State (DOS). It is currently in the Sources Sought/RFI stage. The place of performance is located at the Department of State Annex 34 (SA-34) located at 7374 Boston Boulevard, Springfield VA 22153, nearby warehouse facilities, and potentially limited overseas support trips. The Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM) is looking for contractors to provide an integrated life cycle approach to the Information...

Like many other agencies, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is throwing their hat into IT modernization. OPM has IT systems called the Trust Funds Federal Financial System (FFS) that are over three decades old. The FFS performs financial management and accounting for over $1 trillion in combined assets for retirement, health benefits, and life insurance for federal employees. These older systems don’t meet the standards needed for some of the trust fund accounting and related business processes. Not surprisingly, this...