Federal Staffing

Federal Staffing Market Rates 2026 Competitive Pricing Guide for Contract Bids

Federal Staffing Market Rates 2026: Competitive Pricing Guide for Contract Bids

Federal contractors face a critical challenge: pricing staffing solutions competitively while maintaining profitability in an increasingly constrained market. With cleared talent compensation reaching record highs and regulatory requirements tightening, understanding current market rates has become essential for winning bids and delivering successful contracts. The 2025 ClearanceJobs Security Clearance Compensation Report reveals that…
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How Legitimate 8(a) Firms Win Contracts in the Post-Audit Environment

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

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 Federal Contractors Are Leveraging Vette

How Federal Contractors Are Leveraging Vetted Gig Talent to Win and Execute Contracts?

Federal contractors face a recurring challenge that traditional hiring cannot solve: rapid mobilization of specialized, cleared talent for contract starts and Key Personnel requirements. Consider a hypothetical but common scenario: A mid-sized defense contractor wins a competitive cybersecurity contract. The proposal committed to five Key Personnel with specialized AI security…
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