ManTech seems to be flying under many GovCon’s radar but that won’t last much longer. It isn’t a secret that in January 2018, ManTech transitioned the CEO role for the first time in the company’s 50-year history. George J. Pedersen, one of ManTech’s two founders, turned over the reigns to Kevin Phillips, formerly ManTech’s COO….
Booz Allen Hamilton has been lighting up GovCon news pages this year with significant wins on Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) and Enterprise Machine Learning Analytics and Persistent Services (eMAPS). For those wondering how their portfolio has grown over the past few months, read ahead. Booz Allen Hamilton has over 24,000 employees and a fiscal…
We regularly conduct Black Hat reviews, working with many different teams serving different federal customers in a wide variety of service areas. We’re sharing these pitfalls with you to help you be aware of these traps in your own competitor analysis. When in doubt, we encourage all to remember the below quote from the best-selling…
Why do capture teams across the GovCon industry conduct Black Hat Reviews? The Black Hat Review process helps you better understand you vs. your competition. How a Black Hat Review is executed ranges from the highly informal approach (a.k.a. sharing rumors) to rigorous and structured workshops. While the highly structured approach may not always be…
Many of us may be asking what is Perspecta? The newly formed company has made a big splash after announcing an IPO and senior leadership team Perspecta is the union of the former DXC U.S. Public Sector (HP Enterprise Services), Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions. As the cycle of ever larger federal contractors continues, we…
8(a) contractors on the Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) IDIQ have a promising opportunity with the Department of State (DOS) coming up in the not-too-distant future (DOS? On a Health IT vehicle? You heard correctly). The Development, Engineering, and Integration Services (DEIS) contract, currently being performed by ActioNet, supports DOS’ Bureau…
In September 2013, Futrend Technologies was awarded a 5-year, $17 million contract to provide operations enhancements and maintenance for the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) 340B Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System (OPAIS). This was originally awarded as a CIO-SP3 task order. Based on FedSavvy Strategies’ interactions with HRSA, the agency has clarified to…
Belated congratulations to the 57 new-comers and 13 incumbents who were awarded the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Veterans Technology Services 2 (VETS 2) SDVOSB set-aside vehicle last October! Welcome to the $5 billion IT services contract that provides access to agencies across the U.S. Government. WARNING: do not expect VETS 2 to yield the…
The past is not prologue: Each competition is a new event and you cannot assume that “the usual suspects” will be your opponents. Whether you’re pursuing a new contract or re-competing to win an old one, scanning your competitive landscape is important. This is an oft-discussed challenge, as seen by this sampling of common quotes…
In July 2014, Attain was awarded a five-year, $50.2 million CIO-SP3 task order to provide bioinformatics and related support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI). This task order was awarded as a small business set-aside and will end (assuming that there are no extensions) in July 2019. This means that…
