CIO-SP3 Sunsets October 29: What Small Business IT Contractors Should Do Now
If your pipeline includes federal IT work, one date is now just days away. NITAAC has confirmed that three of its governmentwide acquisition contracts will permanently sunset on October 29, 2026. Those three vehicles are CIO-SP3, CIO-SP3 Small Business, and CIO-CS. For small businesses that built their federal IT revenue on them, this changes how […]
JWCC UCM Core: Inside DISA’s $21.6B Cloud IDIQ
The Pentagon is building the next version of its enterprise cloud, and the opening piece carries a ceiling of $21.6 billion. To find the hyperscale cloud providers that will anchor it, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) issued the JWCC UCM Core solicitation. If your firm sells, supports, or builds on the cloud, this ranks […]
FY27 Capture Strategy: How to Plan Your Pipeline Now
Fiscal year 2027 began on October 1 with no full-year budget in place. Rather than a complete appropriations package, Congress passed a stopgap, so agencies opened the year under a continuing resolution. That single detail shapes how dollars flow, which deals keep moving, and where your team should focus today. A sound FY27 capture strategy […]
Air Force GUARD IDIQ: Inside the $1.98B Draft RFP for Base Defense
The U.S. Air Force just opened a rare window. It released a draft request for proposal, issued as a request for information, for the Global Unified Airbase Readiness and Defense (GUARD) IDIQ, a multiple-award contract with a $1.98 billion ceiling for base defense and security systems. Here is why it matters now. The draft is […]
2026 CAS Changes: New $35M & $100M Thresholds
If the phrase “Cost Accounting Standards” has ever made you hesitate before pursuing a larger federal contract, 2026 brings good news. The rules just got a major rewrite, and the changes favor small and growing contractors. Here is the short version. Two separate rules reshaped how CAS works. One brings several old standards in line […]
The FY2027 Continuing Resolution: What the Stopgap Means for Federal Contractors
Congress just handed federal contractors a few more months of certainty and a few more months of uncertainty at the same time. On September 1, 2026, the House passed a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open past the October 1 deadline. The Senate had already approved it, and the President signed it into […]
AI Capture Platforms in 2026: What to Automate and What You Should Never Hand a Machine
A capture manager today can ask software to scan thousands of solicitations overnight and rank the ten worth a second look by breakfast. That is the promise of AI capture platforms, and it is mostly real. These tools automate the slow, repetitive research that used to eat up a capture team’s week. Here is the […]
GWAC and MAC Contract Vehicles: An FY27 Strategy Guide
GWAC and MAC contract vehicles are pre-awarded federal contracts. They let agencies buy services fast from companies that have already qualified. Here is the shift worth making for FY27: stop asking “did we win a seat?” and start asking “do we hold the seats that matter, and can we still reach the ones we don’t?” […]
Simplified Acquisition Threshold 2026: Current Limits
If you have read that the simplified acquisition threshold sits at $250,000, that number is a year out of date. It rose to $350,000 on October 1, 2025, and the micro-purchase threshold moved from $10,000 to $15,000 at the same time. That distinction matters more than it sounds. The threshold decides which contracts are automatically reserved […]
Empower AI’s $145.6M DIGIT XGen Win: What It Means for GovCon
In 2021, GSA’s flagship enterprise IT program carried a $807 million price tag. Its next-generation successor, awarded on July 14, 2026, is worth $145.6 million. That gap is not a typo. It is one of the clearest signals yet of where federal IT contracting is heading, and most coverage of the award skipped right past […]