The federal government’s finalized plan to overhaul legacy tech and move the government into a more secure, cloud-based infrastructure, kicks off Jan. 1, 2018.
Source: White House posts plan to modernize federal IT and move to the cloud
The Agriculture Department will be the first agency to work with GSA and the Office of American Innovation to get rid of legacy systems.
Source: White House sending teams of experts to modernize agency IT systems
Learn how to modernize your proposal writing to win in the digital age, using persuasive, attention-grabbing techniques and clearly relevant writing.
SOURCE: Recording available | Proposal writing and the eight-second attention span
The law’s promise of working capital funds could help accelerate the migration to the cloud and legacy IT system updates.
Source: How the MGT Act Will Spur Agencies’ IT Investments in 2018 and Beyond
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee provided five new directives to the Government Accountability Office related to ensuring the government maximizes its tech investments.
Public sector sales professionals face the same challenges when selling to the government – and Onvia’s sales intelligence and acceleration can help.
Source: 5 Challenges Faced by Public Sector Sales Professionals
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) issued a solicitation for a variety of services including software development, data center operations, voice, imaging, and data communications, multimedia services support and other related services. Ultimately, the award was made to ASRC Federal Data Solutions (ASRC) whereupon one of the other bidders, AbacusSecure, appealed, challenging various aspects of NASA’s evaluation and source selection process including its price realism analysis.
SOURCE: Price Realism Analysis Does Not Require Detailed Review of Cost Categories
Mark your calendars! We’ve narrowed down the Top 10 GovCon Events that you should consider attending in 2018. Red Team is scheduled to attend most of these events, so keep an eye out for us. Hope to see you out and about!
Source: Red Team & Berenzweig December Newsletter | Top 2018 GovCon Events
For our latest WT Insider Report, we asked your customers to grade their contractors and the results aren’t so great. Where do you need to improve your performance?
Source: Are you failing your customers? — Washington Technology
Almost a year ago, we wrote of a memorandum from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy urging agencies to strengthen the debriefing process. OFPP’s rationale was simple: because effective debriefings tend to reduce the number of protests, agencies should be inclined to enhance the debriefing process.
SOURCE: 2018 NDAA: Congress Enacts Changes to DoD Debriefings
