Oh, the nonsense we con ourselves into believing is not always going to catch on! It’s that time for the obligatory eye roll at another deadly sin. Read on as we continue our series in win-loss trends. Sin #13: Industry leading best practices = strength U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) IT…
Since our last competitor highlight on Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the company has fully integrated its acquisition of Alion Science and Technology into HII’s Mission Technologies division, formerly known as Technical Solutions. For this blog, we will focus on Alion’s impact on HII’s Mission Technologies division. HII reported an FY2022 annual revenue of $10.7 billion,…
This is a follow up to our December 2020 update of ManTech. Since we last looked at ManTech, the company was bought by The Carlyle Group in an all-cash transaction with a value of approximately $4.2 billion. There were some interesting potential buyers when the journey to sell ManTech started. However, the classic private equity…
We introduced Accenture Federal Services (AFS) in our November 2018 blog to examine its service offerings and noteworthy contracts that define the business. Since then, the company has experienced changes in its U.S. Government customer portfolio, showcased interesting evaluation trends, and made significant acquisitions. Portfolio changes and noteworthy wins Over the last few years, Accenture’s…
We last examined Booz Allen Hamilton in August 2020. At the time, the company was experiencing steady business growth (which we also noted in our August 2018 blog) and continues to maintain that steady growth now. The company announced at the end of its fiscal year 2022 that it earned $8.4 billion in revenue, up…
Oh the mistakes that are made leading to some very expensive losses are ever so avoidable. Bear these in mind so you can avoid spending bid and proposal funds on losing proposals and then more on legal fees for a losing protest. Sin #5: You don’t understand the evaluation tendencies of the agency This sin…
We continue our journey into the land of deadly sins in proposals with two sins involving the bidder’s failure to connect content and concepts in their proposal to ensure credibility of their proposal. Sin #3: You cut staffing levels without an effective rationalization Although reducing staffing levels is a short cut to significantly lower your…
We’ve covered traps of Black Hat reviews and capture team follies. Now it’s time to reveal some of the most common and deadliest sins in proposals. This blog leverages research and analysis we’ve done on mistakes made by some major U.S. Government contractors. In order to conduct this analysis, we used GAO protest docket data…
Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a technology, engineering and science solutions and services provider serving the defense, intelligence, civil and health markets. The company consists of 43,000 employees and reported revenues of approximately $12.3 billion in FY2020, an increase of $1.2 billion (11%) compared to FY2019. Originally formed in 2013 when SAIC Inc. separated…
Headquartered in Washington DC, GovernmentCIO (“GovCIO”) is a private IT services company, providing services in IT modernization, digital solutions, analytics, cybersecurity, and management and advisory support. GovCIO’s portfolio also includes a Media & Research business, which runs a digital publication covering federal technology topics. With its recent acquisition of Salient CRGT, the combined company consists…
