Contracting intelligence for small and minority-owned businesses, from the TIKC advisory team.
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GAO sustained a bid protest finding that the Army’s $50 billion MAPS professional services contract violated the Small Business Act by prohibiting small businesses from…
Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg sent a memo directing up to $243.9M to Palantir without competitive bidding — naming the company first and citing…
VA’s CCN Next Gen — a decade-long, hundreds-of-billions community care overhaul — begins awarding in August. The primes are health plans; the opportunity for small…
On its 73rd anniversary, SBA launched a modernized SBA.gov to streamline access to capital, counseling, and contracting — with a sharpened focus on manufacturers.
Agencies must publicly post their sole-source and fair-opportunity-exception justifications. Here’s how to turn those postings into a capture pipeline.
The big IT vehicles are awarding in phases and planning on-ramps. Here’s how to get onto Polaris, SEWP VI, or Alliant 3 if you weren’t…
A roundup of early-August 2026 federal awards — Leidos, a small-business space IDIQ, an Alaska sole-source, and a B-21 build — and where subcontractors fit.
GSA’s Polaris small-business IT GWAC is making phased awards across WOSB, HUBZone, and SDVOSB pools. Why set-aside firms should be positioning now.
SBA and GSA pulled foreign products from GSA Advantage over false ‘Made in America’ claims — and rolled out new manufacturer loan programs. What it…
A roundup of notable late-July 2026 federal awards — CAE, Kratos, GDMS, and a small-business JV — and where subcontractors can plug in.
The GSA Multiple Award Schedule is one of the most powerful contracting vehicles available to small businesses — $50 billion in annual federal sales, no…
The Defense Department is testing modern financial software to replace the PDFs it has used for decades to manage billions in budget transfers. For small…