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Use AI to reduce manual touch labor. Please manually answer 51 spreadsheet questions.
A Marine Corps RFI asks industry to automate away touch labor—through a 51-question response spreadsheet.
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02
11 regulating valves. Delivery unregulated: 860 days.
DLA asked for 11 regulating valves with delivery 860 days after order.
03
This notice is public. The RFQ won't be public.
A public VA notice says the coming RFQ will not be publicly posted.
04
Fresh produce: $496.8M. Awardee: What Chefs Want.
DLA awarded a $496.8 million fresh-produce IDIQ to a company doing business as What Chefs Want.
05
I receive: your resignation. You receive: $6.7B in paid leave.
Deferred resignations generated an estimated $6.7 billion in paid administrative leave.
06
Can't be too far from the SCIF if the SCIF drives to you.
The new secure-work network puts roughly 50 SCIFs on the move.
09
DLA needed sensor head kits. Sole source: Consumer Fuels Inc.
DLA bought sensor head kits from Consumer Fuels.
10
221 agencies migrated. Outages? GSA never checked.
GSA finished the cutover before measuring the outages.
11
Space Force: servers are end-user devices. GAO: that's not how scope works.
GAO rejected Space Force's attempt to put servers and networks inside an end-user-device BPA scope.
12
Brand-name Q-Smart 850 laser. Best I can do: no funds.
USAFA specified a brand-name Q-Smart 850 laser before funds were available.
13
Deadline extended to September 21. Next amendment: September 14.
A reentry-network deadline was extended to September 21, then the next modification moved it to September 14.
15
Agency: no consulting relationship. Intervenor: here's the purchase order.
DOI's no-consulting inquiry missed the purchase order.
16
Expeditionary laptop refresh. DVD in. Wireless out.
The Navy's expeditionary laptop 'refresh' adds DVD and VGA while removing every wireless connection.
17
EXIM: buys debt screening. Free federal databases: am I a joke?
EXIM paid for debt screening while free federal databases held more complete eligibility data.
18
Work shut down. Costs kept working: $12.6M.
A shutdown produced a $12.6 million equitable adjustment.
20
Copied the agency on the GAO protest. GAO: Where's the agency protest?
GAO says copying the agency on a GAO protest does not make it an agency-level protest.
21
Integrated master schedule. 11,389 unintegrated project schedules.
FAA has 11,389 project schedules and no integrated master schedule for its accelerated ATC modernization.
22
DHS: $10.5B avoided. GAO unmasks: same IT work, other contracts.
DHS's $10.5 billion in avoided IT costs kept the same requirements alive.
23
Deadline extended to September 10. Site visit was September 2.
USACE extended the cage-installation proposal deadline after the mandatory site visit had passed.
25
DTS admin: reimburse the traveler. Inner me: change bank to mine.
A contractor administrator changed travel-reimbursement bank details to route $107,316.82 to himself.
26
Oh, TITAN moved to production? Wake me when it outnumbers prototypes.
TITAN entered production with fewer systems than its prototype fleet.
28
FEMA's local disaster area? Apparently, all of Tennessee.
One FEMA buyer made the local disaster area all of Tennessee.
29
I don't always buy telecom networks. But when I do, they orbit Mars.
NASA bought a telecom network that has to orbit Mars.
30
Two anesthesia prototypes. Follow-on competition may stay asleep.
An Army anesthesia prototype request says two test units may lead to about 180 without further competition.
31
A-Wing renovation becomes UAS. Next update: A-Wing renovation again.
An A-Wing renovation notice briefly became a UAS sources sought, then changed back.
32
Urgent breaching frames. Competition: ight imma head out.
US Marshals called sub-$20,000 breaching frames urgent enough for a sole-source waiver.
33
Small-business set-aside. Locate and tag giant manta rays.
NOAA's small-business opportunity is to locate and tag giant manta rays.
34
Base contract: $13.2M. If all options: $742.8M.
A Navy LCS planning-yard contract starts at $13.2 million and reaches $742.8 million if every option is exercised.
35
Vessels moved ahead of schedule. $16.8M schedule modification.
Moving ships early triggered a $16.8 million dry-dock schedule modification.
36
Government: we have the data. Also government: can we use it?
The Navy says it has the aircraft fuel-tank data—and questions whether it may use it.
38
Amendment 5 posted September 13. Required delivery: January 31, 2026.
A September 13 press-brake amendment says required delivery is January 31, 2026.
39
USAi pricing. Platform fee plus passthrough plus question marks.
USAi's new price is a formula without numbers.
41
Compete 135 parking spaces. One authorized garage operator.
NTSB posted its justification for 135 parking spaces with one authorized on-site operator.
42
I heard you hate vendor lock-in. So GenAI.mil added ChatGPT and Grok.
GenAI.mil answered vendor lock-in with ChatGPT and Grok.
43
Small-bomb capability statement. Email filter: you shall not pass.
An Air Force bomb-support market survey warns that the wrong email subject or attachment may be deleted.
46
The data-sharing fix was hidden in a meeting invite.
The data-sharing fix was hidden in a meeting invite.
47
Shared meeting rooms available. Most agency interviewees: what list?
GSA has a meeting-room sharing list that most sampled agency officials did not know existed.
48
Follow-on contract type? Cost-plus, cost-reimbursable, fixed-price everywhere.
MDA's follow-on uses cost-plus, cost-reimbursable, and fixed-price incentives.
49
Three non-price factors. All three: oral presentation.
CBP's draft Global Entry RFQ assigns oral presentations to all three non-price factors.
50
Only known required mouse colony. Is this a sole source?
NIH's sole-source rationale is an established knockout mouse colony.
51
Government estimate: advisory. Solicitation language: controlling.
The staffing floor lived only in the protest.
54
Call contracting before the requirement is final.
The radical reform is calling contracting first.
57
Separate awards for the modules. Georgia Tech gets every interface.
The Army separated the launcher awards, then centralized the interfaces.
58
We own the source code. OEM verified we can build it.
The Air Force brought rescue-helicopter software in-house, with an OEM witness.
60
Amendment 0002 addresses questions. Not on SF 30: system issues.
A Navy mechanic-labor notice says Amendment 0002 is not on SF 30 due to system issues.
61
$20M experience gate: pass. Past performance gate: low confidence.
One experience gate was not enough.
62
The weapon arrived first.
The weapon can travel 300 nautical miles. The price still needs definitization.
69
Janus trade offer: verified milestones for the next funding increment.
The Army proposes a trade.
