Government Marketing News

UPDATED Week of Monday, August 30, 2010

Published by: Federal Buyers Guide

Raytheon wins support award for NASA training facilities

Raytheon Co. will provide operations, engineering and software support for NASA under a new five-year contract from the space agency worth as much as $120 million. Under the award, Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a Raytheon subsidiary, will provide support facilities and operations support for astronaut training at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Sonny Carter Training Facility in Houston.

http://washingtontechnology.com/

CACI Awarded Prime Contract on $16.4 Billion, Multiple-Award U.S. Army Rapid Response Program

CACI International Inc, announced today that it has been awarded one of 17 prime contracts to support the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) Rapid Response - Third Generation (R2-3G) program. The five-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling value of $16.4 billion. It is designed to provide all defense and federal civilian agencies with solutions for critical hardware, software, systems management, and rapid response requirements. While CACI provides significant support for the U.S. Army's Team C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) warfighter capabilities, this award represents new business for CACI, complementing the company's very successful support for the Army's Strategic Services Sourcing (S3) and Technical Engineering Support Services (TESS) programs.

CACI's experience in supporting C4ISR systems throughout their lifecycle was instrumental in the government's selection of CACI to support the R2-3G program. Under this contract, CACI will deliver a wide range of C4ISR services and solutions. CACI's ability to quickly respond to new and emerging requirements with highly complex and cost-effective solutions assures clients of successful and on-time project delivery. CACI support includes technology insertion, system integration/installation, fabrication/prototyping, testing/certification, studies/analyses, logistics support, and training and engineering support, including re-engineering and reverse-engineering for a range of equipment and anti-terrorism technology.

http://www.marketwatch.com/

US extends $25 mln Agility contract for 6 months

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has extended a warehousing and distribution contract for Kuwait's Agility by six months, the firm said in a statement on Monday. "(DLA) has awarded them (Agility) six months extension starting September 2010 for the warehouse and distribution service contract...with a value of around USD 25 million," Agility said in a statement to the Dubai bourse.

http://www.reuters.com/

Small Businesses Get More Federal Contracts

Small businesses got $3 billion more in federal contracts in fiscal year 2009 than in fiscal year 2008, according to data released by the Small Business Administration late Friday. Small businesses were awarded $96.8 billion in federal prime contracts during the period. This represents 21.89 percent of all federal contracts awarded to private business. The SBA has been charged with meeting a goal of overseeing the award of 23 percent of all federal contracts to small businesses.

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/

GAO studies contract competition

Competition is inevitable in government contracting. But the amount of that competition was somewhat of a mystery. That is until the Government Accountability Office assessed the amount. John Hutton, Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at the GAO, told Federal News Radio the reason why competition even matters in the first place.

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/

Boeing postpones delivery of Dreamliner 787 again

Boeing Co postponed the delivery of its much-awaited Dreamliner 787 for the seventh time and now expects the plane to be available in the middle of the first quarter of 2011. The company cited issues with the availability of an engine from Rolls-Royce that is required for the final phases of the flight test.

http://www.ibtimes.com/

Lockheed helps HHS build out digital health records and exchanges

Lockheed Martin Corp. will help the Health and Human Services Department accelerate the establishment of digital health records and secure health information exchanges as a result of two new HHS contracts that have a combined value of $9 million. The contracts, which were awarded by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, support the Nationwide Health Information Network, according to a Lockheed announcement dated Aug. 25.

http://washingtontechnology.com/

Help Wanted: DEA to Hire 9 Ebonics Translators

On Thursday, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced that it does not recognize Ebonics (African-American gangster street slang) as a formal language, but it still may need translators for agents to understand drug dealers who speak it. According to the Washington Times, “the DEA made that statement in response to questions that arose in the wake of a website earlier this week posting a DEA memo seeking contractors to provide nine linguists who can speak Ebonics.”

http://www.dallasblog.com/

Lockheed Adds $111.4M Contract

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest U.S. defense contractor, an extension contract worth $111.4 million for its F-22 Raptor fleet. This extension brings the total value of the contract to $709 million. This $111.4 million contract follows on the contract that was originally granted to Lockheed in 2008 and extended in 2009. Under the 2010 Follow-On Agile Sustainment for the Raptor (FASTeR) Performance-Based Logistics contract, Lockheed will provide weapon systems support of the F-22 Raptors at all operational bases in 2010.

http://www.zacks.com/

Lack of technical data hampers competition at DoD, says GAO

Lack of access to technical data is a major barrier to competition at the Defense Department, concludes a Government Accountability Office report. In nearly 60 percent of 47 noncompetitive Defense contracts examined by the GAO, the department was essentially stuck with a certain contractor since it lacked technical data behind the goods and services it has been purchasing.

http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/

GSA Awards Contract with Best Spanish Translation Rates on the Schedule

Trusted Translations, Inc., a global leader in Spanish translation services and an SBA certified 8(a) translation company, was recently awarded a coveted 5-year contract (GS-10F-0245W) from the United States General Services Administration (GSA) to perform high-quality translation services. The GSA translation contract will greatly facilitate the ability of the U.S. Federal Government to buy Trusted Translations' highly-competitive and quality translations services. The GSA Schedule is a sophisticated procurement system that facilitates the Federal Government, as well as some state and local government agencies, to buy products and services from the commercial sector through pre-negotiated long-term contracts. In order to obtain its GSA contract, Trusted Translations underwent a complex and comprehensive evaluation that clearly demonstrated to the GSA a proven track record of outstanding past performance and fair pricing.

http://www.prweb.com/

Social Security Administration to award massive network deal

The Social Security Administration says it will announce in September a new award for data networking services, jumpstarting a critical IT project that has been delayed for more than a year following a successful -- but secretive -- legal protest of the original awards. In June 2009, SSA awarded two data networking services contracts through the U.S. government telecommunications program known as Networx Universal. SSA chose Verizon Business as its primary data services provider and AT&T as its secondary carrier. A month later, failed bidder Qwest Government Services protested these awards to the General Accounting Office, which sustained the protest in October 2009.

http://www.businessweek.com/

GSA Scheduling Conflict

GSA schedules are beneficial as intended, but are they a government nightmare in reality? The schedules offer pre-negotiated contracts to federal and state agencies looking to buy commercial goods and services. The prices, terms, and conditions are set, allowing a buying agency to find what it needs and place an order without the usual haggling and paper pushing. This summer, however, some cracks have been appearing in the GSA schedule’s armor. The Justice Department has gone after two contractors, EMC and Oracle, for allegedly falsifying prices and not providing the government with discounts that they offered to other customers. Both suits were brought under the False Claims Act, and EMC has already settled with the government for $87.5 million. Another case (Ubl v IIF Data Solutions, Inc.), which DOJ has avoided (which is before the 4th Circuit), challenged the alleged fraud in setting schedule prices, as well as the authority for ordering agencies to alter pre-established terms and conditions on schedule contracts.

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/

Alabama Awards $135 Million Medicaid Management Contract to HP

HP today announced a $135 million, eight-year technology services contract with the Alabama Medicaid Agency, enabling the state to contain costs while meeting new HIPAA requirements, and to improve healthcare delivery, provider satisfaction and recipient access to personal healthcare information. The new contract extends HP's 30-year relationship with Alabama's Medicaid agency, which oversees the Medicaid program for more than 900,000 state residents each year. HP processed nearly 32 million Medicaid claims for Alabama healthcare providers in 2009.

http://www.marketwatch.com/

Spy Agency Amends No-Bid Contract Notice, But Google Still Favored

One of America’s most secretive spy agencies, responding in part to inquiries made by Fox News about a no-bid contract set to be awarded to Google, announced Tuesday it will revise the terms of its notice for the contract – but Fox News has learned that Google will still have the inside track for the deal. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., first posted online on Aug. 19 a formal notice of its plans to award the “sole source,” or no-bid, contract to the Internet and software giant. The contract synopsis – posted on fedbizopps.gov, a sort of bulletin board for federal contractors – stated that the agency was seeking “a secured, hosted environment that provides web-based access to geospatial visualization services.” No dollar figure was attached.

http://www.foxnews.com/

Young arms dealer gets into more trouble

A Miami arms dealer who has admitted to selling faulty, decades-old Chinese munitions to Afghan security forces is back in trouble with the law. Efraim Diveroli, who was 22 years old when his company, AEY Inc., secured a nearly $300 million Defense Department contract to provide ammunition to Afghanistan's army and police force, was arrested on Aug. 20 in Brevard County, Fla.

http://www.govexec.com/

IT Consulting Firm ENTAP Awarded Contract to Participate in U.S. Navy’s SeaPort-e Program for the Acquisition of Professional Services

ENTAP, an IT consulting and outsourcing firm specializing in business systems consulting and ERP solutions, announces it has been awarded a contract to participate in the Navy SeaPort Enhanced contracting program for the Midwest and Nation’s Capital regions. The SeaPort-e program provides a standardized, efficient means for the nation’s small businesses to compete in securing contracts within 22 categories of professional services including information technology consulting, management and support. ENTAP holds an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) task order contract (N00178-10-D-6026) and joins more than 1,800 SeaPort-e contract holders privileged to compete for task orders from The Navy Systems Commands, the Office of Naval Research, the United States Marine Corp and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). All task orders are competitively solicited, awarded and managed using the SeaPort-e electronic platform.

http://www.prweb.com/

Nanocomp Technologies Awarded Phase II Critical SBIR Contract by United States Air Force

Nanocomp Technologies, Inc., a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), today announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar Phase II contract by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Through this AFRL-sponsored contract, Nanocomp will continue its work to advance CNT-based materials as replacement for metal-based electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and electrostatic discharge (ESD) components on manned and unmanned aircraft. This research has been officially designated as a “critical SBIR program,” indicating its high level of importance to the government.

http://www.businesswire.com/

Obama Aides Review $30 Billion in Technology Contracts

The Obama administration plans to review 26 government information-technology projects worth $30 billion as part of an effort to trim back or cancel contracts that aren’t meeting goals. Among contracts singled out for scrutiny today were a $1.5 billion project for Lockheed Martin Corp. to update air-traffic control equipment; $281 million to Computer Sciences Corp. to help process patent applications; and $350 million for AT&T Inc. to improve the Treasury Department’s telecommunications.

http://www.bloomberg.com/

ICF International Awarded New $10.5 Million Contract to Provide HSPD-12 Related Automation Support

ICF International, a leading provider of consulting services and technology/cybersecurity solutions to government and commercial clients, has been awarded a new contract by the Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of Protective Security Services, to provide application development, training, and implementation support services for an array of initiatives designed to enhance SSA's physical security posture across the nation. The contract has a value of $10.5 million and a term of one base year and four option years. Under terms of the contract, ICF International will enhance SSA's existing Security Automated Features and Enhancements (SAFE) application platform, which provides for comprehensive, paperless management of SSA's many physical security business processes. SAFE enhancements will include the development of Physical Access Control System (PACS) Central core functionality. PACS Central will consist of a set of software libraries and components that will act as a central hub, connecting SSA's existing Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) Card Management System, Public Key Infrastructure, and PACS systems. SAFE enhancement will be deployed at SSA headquarters in Woodlawn, Md., and at as many as 10 regional offices nationwide.

http://www.marketwatch.com/

Contract Award Updates

• Department of Defense, Updated August 23:
  http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4350
• Department of Defense, Updated August 24:
  http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4351
• Department of Defense, Updated August 25:
  http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4352
• Department of Defense, Updated August 26:
  http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4353
• Department of Defense, Updated August 20:
  http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=4354

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