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CMCoE Meme Intel: Approval to Skip Approval
A missing maximum price, an imaginary secret program, payment controls with an override, and excuses that travel back in time.
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CMCoE Meme Intel
Recent acquisition news, explained with primary sources, original memes, and the fine print that keeps a good joke from becoming bad guidance.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: Premium Mandatory
Artisanal AI evaluations, premium mandatory service levels, missing Archives receipts, and a supplier check with three spelling problems.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: The Catch-Up Collection
Thirty-five acquisition memes from the unpublished September and early October drafts: orbital tow trucks, spreadsheet repairs, disappearing office leases, and procurement fine print.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 23, 2026
Water infrastructure gets a construction budget but needs an upkeep plan, schedule-ordering rules prepare to change address, and agencies need to compare corporate family trees.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 18, 2026
Three implementation tells: postal targets lowered and still missed, $10 billion in federal surplus property with only 9 percent reused, and a commercial router that needs a custom chassis to fit a ship rack.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 17, 2026
Three control tells: $6.7 billion in paid leave tied to deferred resignations, paid debt screening that missed free federal data, and a travel-system administrator who changed reimbursement bank details to his own.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 15, 2026
Three planning tells: FAA's 11,389 unintegrated schedules, a federal room-sharing list most sampled officials had not heard of, and an NIH sole-source case built around the only known required mouse colony.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 14, 2026
Three amendment self-owns: a delivery date already eight months past, an extension that pulled a deadline forward one week, and an amendment kept off SF 30 because of system issues.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 12, 2026
The Marine Corps automates touch labor with 51 spreadsheet questions, a copied GAO protest searches for its agency twin, and NOAA sends small businesses after giant manta rays.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 11, 2026
Expeditionary laptops refresh back to DVD and VGA, flight-critical fuel tanks meet questionable data rights, and a public notice announces a private RFQ.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 10, 2026
GAO declines to let servers cosplay as end-user devices, a $13.2 million Navy planning contract packs $742.8 million in options, and bomb support meets the inbox firewall.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 9, 2026
Three fresh acquisition twists: anesthesia prototypes whose follow-on competition may stay asleep, nearly $497 million in produce for What Chefs Want, and three non-price factors all asking for the same oral-presentation line.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 8, 2026
Three fresh competition constraints: 135 parking spaces with one authorized operator, an extended deadline after a mandatory site visit, and urgent breaching frames pursuing a sole-source waiver.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 7, 2026
Three fresh solicitation reversals: a notice that changed identities and changed back, 11 valves with an 860-day delivery, and a brand-name laser posted before funds were available.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 5, 2026
Three fresh contract reversals: ships that moved early and changed the schedule, shutdown costs that stayed active, and one follow-on carrying three pricing families.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 4, 2026
Three fresh acquisition reversals: avoided IT spending that changed vehicles, secure rooms that travel, and a disaster area that stretched across Tennessee.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 3, 2026
Three fresh acquisition reversals: a conflict inquiry undone by its own purchase order, production outnumbered by prototypes, and AI pricing without prices.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 2, 2026
Three fresh acquisition reversals: a telecom network for Mars, two new AI vendors against lock-in, and sensor kits from Consumer Fuels.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: September 1, 2026
Three fresh acquisition contradictions: one unmeasured cutover, one OEM-witnessed software handoff, and one integrator for separate launcher awards.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: August 31, 2026
Three acquisition stories, three real meme templates, and one robot-dog requirement that arrived already named.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: August 30, 2026
Three acquisition stories, three real meme templates, and one data-sharing fix hiding on a meeting invite.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: August 29, 2026
Three acquisition stories, three real meme templates, and one auditor asking the auditor for documentation.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: August 28, 2026
Eight acquisition stories, eight real meme templates, and one mandatory pathway to flexibility.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: August 27, 2026
Four acquisition stories, four real meme templates, and one Rule of Two applied only after the third capable small business.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: August 26, 2026
Three acquisition stories, three original memes, and enough fine print to distinguish a selection from an award.
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CMCoE Meme Intel: August 25, 2026
Five recent acquisition stories, five original memes, and enough regulatory nuance to keep the joke inside the guardrails.
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