By Ross Wilkers
Apr 23, 2021
Four companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $3.6 billion contract to help the National Institutes of Health carry out current and new biomedical research projects.
Axle Informatics, GAP Solutions, Kelly Services and Medical Science & Computing will also work with NIH on program implementation activities over the duration of the Scientific, Operations and Administrative Resources contract, the agency said in a notice Monday.
NIH received 17 total bids for the contract, according to Federal Procurement Data System information. Kelly Services will continue its incumbency from the previous contract, while the other three are newcomers.
The companies will compete for task orders to assist in experiments, organize data, write reports, provide scientific IT services and support communication efforts.
Design Changes Coming Soon to beta.SAM Jacquelyn Martin/AP
email April 21, 2021
While most of the changes will be cosmetic, the design update is the result of years of user feedback and adherence to relatively new digital services standards.
Come Monday, the General Services Administration’s central procurement website, beta.SAM.gov, will get a new look, shuffling and tightening the image and feel of the site in response to years of user feedback.
The design update scheduled for April 26 is the first of a two-step process that will end in the merger of beta.SAM and the original SAM.gov the site that hosts the System for Award Management registration function, required for all organizations contracting with or receiving grants from the federal government. At that time currently set for May 24 SAM.gov will be retired and beta.SAM will lose the “beta,” become SAM.gov and subsume all of the legacy SAM functionality.
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The Biden administration did not solicit bids for a multimillion contract to house migrant families in hotels and instead gave the massive contract to an organization whose leadership has ties to the White House, including one official who was on the Biden transition team.
In its rush to stand up facilities to hold families who come over the southern border illegally in rising numbers, the Biden administration signed a deal that a member of Congress and people with knowledge of the matter said presented a conflict of interest and wasted existing government facilities.
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (an agency of the Department of Homeland Security) signed an $87 million contract to acquire and oversee an operation involving 1,200 hotel beds to house migrant families in Arizona and Texas. The contract was given to the nonprofit organization Family Endeavors, based out of San Antonio, Texas, which has no previous history as an ICE contractor.