General Services Administration
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Awards
CACI Lands $308M VA Contract to Modernize Aging Financial System
CACI NSS won a six-year, up to $308.5M VA contract to operate and modernize the department's iFAMS financial platform, replacing legacy infrastructure and targeting audit-readiness gains.
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Policy
GSA's AI Data-Safeguarding Clause Draws Just Six Comments Ahead of July 14 Listening Session
Only six public comments have been filed on GSA revised GSAR clause 552.239-7001 governing LLM data safeguarding since its June 17 release, with a July 14 listening session and August 3 deadline still ahead.
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Policy
GSA's Rewritten AI Safeguarding Rule Wins Industry Praise, But "Ideological Neutrality" Language Still Worries Contractors
GSA's June 17 rewrite of its LLM data-safeguarding clause narrows scope and eases flow-down burdens, drawing praise from acquisition experts ahead of a July 14 listening session, though foreign-ownership limits and vague neutrality language remain unresolved.
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Awards
$82.4M MDA Acquisition Support Contract Goes to Veteran-Owned Hive Group
The Missile Defense Agency awarded McLean, Virginia-based Hive Group a competitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth up to $82.4 million for acquisition and contracting support across five sites, beating four other OASIS+ Small Business offerors.
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Policy
GSA Revises AI Data Safeguarding Rule, But Foreign-Ownership Clause Still Worries Contractors
GSA published a revised GSAR clause for LLM data safeguarding, splitting it into four role-specific flow-down clauses and dropping "lawful use" and "Made in America" requirements. Praised as consequential, but foreign-ownership rules and a vague neutrality standard still concern smaller firms.
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Policy
GSA Schedules Get Cross-Contract Ordering as VAR Pricing Rules Tighten
GSA is letting Multiple Award Schedule holders bid special item numbers from other vendors' contracts and redefining reseller "value" as service, not markup, after a 136-response RFI on IT hardware resale pricing.
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Guides
SAM.gov Registration: The Complete Guide — and the Rule Change Most Guides Still Get Wrong
SAM.gov registration is free, mandatory, and easier to fumble than it should be. A practical guide to UEI, entity validation, the 365-day renewal — and the 2024 rule change that means a mid-evaluation lapse no longer kills your bid.
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Policy
GSA Floats Two-Tiered 'Buy American' Tier for Advantage Marketplace, Opens Comment Window to July 24
GSA's June 25 RFI proposes restructuring the Advantage marketplace to spotlight American-made goods through voluntary certification or a dedicated OEM-only Special Item Number, with a 65% domestic-component test rising to 75% in 2029. Industry comments are due July 24, 2026.
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Guides
How FAR Rules Are Made: A Contractor's Guide to the Rulemaking Process
FAR and DFARS rules move through a legally prescribed notice-and-comment cycle — ANPRMs, NPRMs, final rules, interim rules, and class deviations — with mandated review periods contractors can use to shape requirements before they lock into solicitations.
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Guides
IDIQ Contract Vehicles Explained: GWACs, MATOCs, and MACs
A practical breakdown of IDIQ vehicle types — GWACs, MATOCs, MACs, and single-award IDIQs — covering FAR structure, active ceilings, and how to position your firm for task order revenue.
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Enforcement
$3.1M False Claims Act Deal Resolves Phantom-Employee and Size-Fraud Claims Across 49 Federal Contracts
Sanford Federal, Inc. and owner Joseph Mandour agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the firm faked employee credentials and misrepresented its size to win set-aside work spanning 49 contracts and multiple agencies, DOJ said.
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Policy
GSA Bets on Contracting-Officer Judgment as FAR Overhaul Eases Prescriptive Mandates
As the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul pares back one-size-fits-all mandates, GSA is repositioning its acquisition workforce to lean on individual judgment, backed by a non-regulatory "FAR Companion." Officials concede the trade-off: more discretion risks inconsistency across contracting officers.
