Topic
Procurement strategy, COTS products, RFIs, and contract vehicles.
26 articles on this topic
April 22, 2026 · 15 min read
Constitutional compliance, mission-centricity, and economic efficiency. The three principles being tested in the federal contracting laboratory that will reshape how $775 billion in annual contract spending gets allocated.
April 18, 2026 · 13 min read
USUHS delivered the most comprehensive single-day MHS performance assessment in years on April 13. The evidence runs against several assumptions built into the budget Congress is now marking up.
April 14, 2026 · 14 min read
The four-month procurement freeze is over. The FAR Part 19 rewrite that took effect in the middle of it is not getting the attention it warrants. The Rule of Two no longer applies to task orders under multi-award vehicles.
April 10, 2026 · 6 min read
The unified Defense Health Program filed its last budget in FY2026. Two new accounts replace it. The mandatory injection concentrated in a single infrastructure line funds the next decade of military medicine outside the standard appropriations process.
April 7, 2026 · 9 min read
The VA built workforce reduction into its budget model. The oversight account monitoring the $56.2 billion network it's building around that assumption is down 5.1%.
March 7, 2026 · 2 min read
CMS released an RFP to replace four decades-old legacy claims processing systems with a single commercial platform. This procurement learned from previous federal failures, emphasizing competition, prototypes, and COTS over custom development.
February 28, 2026 · 13 min read
Hard data on the Pentagon's Anthropic designation: market penetration, enterprise exposure, legal precedent, and the double standard created in a single evening.
February 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Hard data on the Pentagon's Anthropic designation: market penetration, enterprise exposure, legal precedent, and the double standard created in a single evening.
February 24, 2026 · 2 min read
A structural shift in how defense health contracting works, and what capture and BD teams have to rewrite in their playbooks to keep up.
February 21, 2026 · 2 min read
A practical guide to building competitive bids for the Community Care Network Next Generation contract by company type. Different company types need different strategies. Here is how to read the evaluation criteria for yours.
February 5, 2026 · 5 min read
On January 21, 2026, the VA held a landmark industry event for the largest healthcare contract ever. What contractors need to know.
February 5, 2026 · 5 min read
On January 21, 2026, the VA held a landmark industry event for the largest healthcare contract ever. What contractors need to know.
February 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Treat CCN Next Gen as a regular community care contract and you will write the wrong proposal. It is VA's attempt to apply modular open systems architecture thinking to a care network, and that changes what a competitive bid has to look like.
January 27, 2026 · 2 min read
VA released an RFI that most contractors are not reading carefully enough. The signal inside is worth more than the solicitation looks like at first glance.
January 24, 2026 · 5 min read
How defense health contractors can survive and compete in the post-8(a) landscape using the Lethality Test framework.
January 22, 2026 · 5 min read
VA's OIT posted an RFI for a next-generation referral, authorization, utilization management, and care coordination system.
January 22, 2026 · 5 min read
VA's OIT posted an RFI for a next-generation referral, authorization, utilization management, and care coordination system.
January 20, 2026 · 5 min read
Decoding the MHS Triad's budget priorities and what they signal for defense health capture strategies.
January 6, 2026 · 5 min read
2026 marks the end of 'paper performance' in defense health — the great clawback is coming for contractors who can't deliver.
December 13, 2025 · 5 min read
The federal government wants AI innovation but discourages AI in the very proposals meant to deliver it. The procurement paradox explained.
December 4, 2025 · 5 min read
After the Great Depression, people kept money in the mattress. Some defense health IT vendors are doing the same with their COTS products.
December 4, 2025 · 5 min read
After the Great Depression, people kept money in the mattress. Some defense health IT vendors are doing the same with their COTS products.
November 17, 2025 · 5 min read
Every contracting officer faces an impossible choice: audacious innovator or forensic auditor. The system demands both.
August 25, 2025 · 5 min read
The merit revolution in federal health IT — how performance-based approaches are reshaping defense health contracting.
May 19, 2025 · 5 min read
How the FAR overhaul is unlocking a new era of innovation and agile acquisition for the Military Health System.
April 11, 2025 · 5 min read
The DoD cut $5.1 billion in consulting contracts. What the bombshell means for defense health contractors and the industry.
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