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The White House has issued an executive order that will direct government contractors to increase the minimum wage of employees working on federal contracts to $15 per hour. The new policy will require all federal agencies to include the raise in new contract solicitations by Jan. 30, 2022 and implement the higher wage into new...
Maximus’ (NYSE: MMS) move to purchase Veterans Evaluation Services, a Houston-based facilitator of medical disability compensation and pension exams, for $1.4 billion aims to add business process outsourcing services at the federal level as a complement to state-level independent clinical assessment work, Maximus President and CEO Bruce Caswel...
The Department of Homeland Security has released a solicitation for the potential 10-year, $10 billion FirstSource III contract for information technology hardware, software, value-added reseller and IT managed services. FirstSource III is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and a total small business set-aside program...
Sixteen nonprofit organizations employing people with disabilities have won positions on a $150 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Defense Logistics Agency distribute goods and services to the U.S. military. DLA received 17 responses for the AbilityOne Base Supply Center Tailored Logistics Support Program via a comp...
Gerry Fasano, president of Leidos’ Defense Group, received his 2021 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to Leidos for his leadership and efforts to drive massive defense contracts with federal customers and spearheading valuable acquisitions, which has expanded Leidos revenue and influence in the market...
Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL), a Plano, Texas-based public sector software provider, has purchased DataSpec for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its software offerings for managing veterans’ benefits. “DataSpec is a good fit with Tyler’s acquisition philosophy, which includes adding best-of-breed companies and products that com...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded four small businesses spots on a potential $247.3 million contract for commercial application development and information technology services. The VA said in separate notices posted Monday that Agile Six Applications, Coforma, Oddball and Magnum Opus, doing business as MO Studio, will perform various se...
Two separate teams led by BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT) and X-energy have won contract options to finalize portable microreactor designs as part of a prototype competition managed by the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office. BWXT and X-energy will move forward from preliminary design work under Project Pele and conduct indepe...
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Sonny Hashmi, commissioner of the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), as a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient for driving technology transformation, acquisitions and massive contract awards that support the administration’s key missions and the best interests of the U.S...
Seven companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $125 million contract to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Kansas City District carry out projects. The agency received 24 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation and expects contractor support work to conclude March 17, 2028, the Department of Defense said Th...
