TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) After five years, the DoD formally published the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification rules, mandating verifiable compliance by system integrators and contractors. This month marked nearly five years since the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, or CMMC, was announced. This initiative by the US Department of Defense (DOD) required DoD Contractors and Subcontractors to achieve verifiable…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The Contracting Office released an announcement on the GSA Interact website on September 12, 2024. According to the announcement, based on the protest timelines, GSA anticipates the OASIS+ Small Business Pool contracts to be available for ordering by mid-December 2024. Furthermore, while the agency is working through the OASIS+ SB protests, it is moving…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) A total of 10 companies so far are challenging their exclusion from an award on the government-wide professional services vehicle. In July, GSA unveiled its list of 1,383 apparent winners for the general small business set-aside track of OASIS+. GSA planned to have formal award notifications out by Tuesday (Aug. 12), following the window for protests…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) The CIO-SP3 government wide acquisition contract for IT services operated by the National Institutes of Health were again extended, this time for nine months, while bid protests over the embattled successor CIO-SP4 persist. In an update posted this week, NIH’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) said that CIO-SP3 and its small business…
TAKE NOTE (Insights and Emerging Technology) A whole new category of protests could open up for situations where prime contractors decide to custom-build their solutions. A federal court has ruled that a commercial company can protest if its product is not part of a solution that a prime contractor proposes for a customer. If the decision holds, it could send shockwaves…