Contracts

GAO clears the protest deck for $50B Army MAPS vehicle

The watchdog agency five remaining challenges, including a set of four that questioned the self-scoring process and consolidation of requirements for the professional services contract.

Trax loses White Sands protest, but judge hits government over AI disclosures

The Army tested an artificial intelligence tool on the $450 million competition, and its outputs reached evaluators and the contracting officer. The government did not provide many details on that until the judge pressed.

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Army awards counterdrone contracts worth more than $4B

But there’s room for more—up to $7 billion. 

ICE starts to explore AI, data strategy support contract

Immigration and Customs Enforcement's production environment now needs ongoing operations-and-maintenance support and continued enhancement.

Amentum wins $572M NORAD warning system contract

The North American Aerospace Defense Command uses this system to determine the nature of launches and attacks from adversaries.

General Dynamics IT keeps Army field support work with $510M award

The five-year task order covers logistics, sustainment and maintenance of Army command, control, communications, cyber, ISR and medical systems at 190 locations worldwide.

DHA embarks on health data management contract strategy

The Defense Health Agency wants industry's ideas for working with clinical, administrative, operational, financial, scheduling, encounter, assessment, document and analytics data.

Air Force unveils first draft of $2B base security tech recompete

Air Force officials are setting up the multiple-award GUARD contract to aid the transition of the security systems to a modular open systems architecture.

GAO sustains protest against WidePoint's $3B DHS mobility win

Turning Point Global Solutions wins its challenge to the evaluation, but the Government Accountability Office rejects conflict-of-interest claims against the incumbent.

SBA formally reopens size standards comment period after portal lag

Both proposed rules now accept comments through Nov. 20, as the Small Business Administration's Advocacy office projects a fraction of the 115,000 new small businesses the agency originally estimated.

Agriculture to go down LPTA path for software tool buy

The Agriculture Department gives small businesses less than a week to turn around quotes.

GSA claims it found $1.2B in suspected COVID-related contracting fraud

The agency previously said it found $13 billion in suspected procurement-related fraud and is investigating other sources of potential fraud.

Navy adds $876M to L3Harris Growler jammer award as production nears

The added scope covers production tooling, more test pods and cybersecurity work for the U.S. Navy and Australia's air force.

Booz Allen expands research work with $85M AFRL design contract

The 10-year award focuses on integrated design of aircraft, propulsion and power systems.

Veterans Affairs previews timeline for enterprise AI services competition

A final solicitation for the potential three-year contract is just around the corner and will task the winner with rolling out artificial intelligence capabilities to 540,000 users.

GAO gives Battelle narrow reopening to win $8B Antarctica contract

The Government Accountability Office rejected most of the challenges in Battelle's protest, but found the National Science Foundation improperly credited KBR with an affiliate's past performance record.

SBA reopens size standard comment period, slashes estimates of its impacts

The Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy now says only 4,000 to 6,000 companies would become small businesses, not the 115,000 originally estimated.