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How Legitimate 8(a) Firms Win Contracts in the Post-Audit Environment
03 Dec 25

How Legitimate 8(a) Firms Win Contracts in the Post-Audit Environment: New Staffing Requirements Create Competitive Advantage

Treasury announced a $9 billion audit November 6, 2025. The audit will examine potential misuse of the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program, and other initiatives that provide federal contracting preferences to certain eligible businesses.  These actions follow Treasury’s earlier suspension and termination of all contracts and task orders with ATI Government…
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Cloud Adoption at the Center of Federal IT Modernization
27 Nov 25

Cloud Adoption at the Center of Federal IT Modernization

Picture a federal agency running mission-critical systems on decades-old servers tucked away in basement data centers. Patches hold legacy applications together. Security risks multiply. Budgets shrink. Citizen expectations rise.  That scenario isn’t fiction, it was reality for many federal departments until just a few years ago.  Today, that same agency is rewriting its…
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How Skills-Based Hiring Helps Federal Contractors Win and Retain Contracts
18 Nov 25

How Skills-Based Hiring Helps Federal Contractors Win and Retain Contracts?

The protest landed on a Friday afternoon.  A mid-sized defense contractor had just won a competitive $18 million cybersecurity services contract. Within 48 hours, the incumbent filed a GAO protest challenging the winner’s Key Personnel qualifications. The protest claimed the proposed team lacked demonstrable capability to perform the work—their résumés showed relevant experience, but the incumbent…
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