Name: Top 10 Set-Aside Opportunities for FY 2027
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Transcript for "Top 10 Set-Aside Opportunities for FY 2027": Thank you for joining Deltek today for the top 10 federal small business opportunities for fiscal year twenty twenty seven webinar. I'm Kathleen Severs, a director of federal research for Deltek's GovWinIQ product. I've been working in federal contracting industry since the early nineties, starting with an eight a company, and I've been in the market research side of things for more than twenty five years. For the best viewing experience, we recommend you use Google Chrome or Firefox as your browser. If you have questions, type them in the q and a tab on the right side of your screen. I've tried to leave some time to answer questions along the way or at the end of the presentation. Or if you're a GovWind client, you can submit your questions to your CSM, especially if there are very detailed questions that I can't answer off the top of my head or from my notes. The doc tab includes a copy of the slides you can download right now as well as links to other events of interest. And in case you need to leave early or relisten to a section, you'll receive a link to an on demand recording of today's webinar via email within twenty four hours after the webinar ends. This small business focused webinar is the second in our top up series. I hope you were able to attend, last week's webinar presented by Ashley Sanderson on unrestricted opportunities. In case you missed it, you can still register for the on demand recording. I think a link to that is available in the, docs tab. That... While that has unrestricted opportunities, some of the opportunities listed there have small business tracks and plus their subcontracting potential, and it is absolutely worth checking out. Today's opportunities are exclusively for small business primes, either small business directly or a socioeconomic category. The opportunities were sourced from Deltek's govlin federal tracked opportunity database with the following criteria, top down based on value, the projected solicitation release between 10/01/2026 and 09/30/2027, and they're competitive. And our awesome team of analysts review, research, repeat until we land on our final top 10. But I always do a poll question. And so, since this is our top small business webinar, I'm curious as to how many in today's audience are small businesses. And, while the opportunities that we cover today are limited to small business primes, they're open to any size subs. And if you didn't think your company was gonna pursue any opportunity on the list regardless of role, it's still good to know what's going on. One of the things I like about this new, webinar platform we use is that we can see real time results as people put in their time. And if you don't know the size of their company, I look... I see that there's a few people who are, under that category now. You can... If your company is already doing business with the federal contracting, you can ask a coworker in your business development or your contracts department. And if you're too embarrassed to ask, then you can look up your company in GovWinds company profiles or through sam.gov. Several times a year, we get client questions where they're asking us because they don't want their coworkers to know that they don't know the answer, and we won't tell. Well, looks like we do have majority of small business, which is what we would expect, but we have a nice amount of large business. And then, one of the more interesting things is sometimes people are small and some two... Times people are large based on the NAICS code. Okay. And moving on to the next... To our agenda here. Before we dive into opportunities, I'm gonna spend some time going over one of the, latest topics to hit small business, the proposed small business size standard changes. There is a lot of presubmitted questions asking if we were gonna cover that topic, and, yes, we will. And then we're gonna take a brief detour to see what happened to last year's top ops, and we'll spend the majority of today's time talking about the opportunities themselves. So let's get started. During last year's top opportunity presentation, I spoke about plans to increase more than 200 receipt based NAICS, size standards. And, wow, what a difference a year can make. So that never really moved forward. And before I dive into those changes that, for the benefit of those of you who are newer to federal contracting, size standards are tied to your company's NAICS code. These codes represent what your company sells to the government. Each NAICS has an associated size standard, and those below the standard are considered small, and those above are considered large. Service based industries tend to use dollar based sizes, whereas manufacturing is on the employee headcount standard. For example, the NAICS for janitorial services, 561720, has a size standard of 22,000,000. But if you also make your own cleaning supplies, the manufacturing NAICS is 325612, polish and other sanitation goods manufactured, which has a size standard of 900 employees. You can do business under as many NAICS code, that your company can actually provide. And depending upon your headcount or receipts, you could be considered large for some opportunities and small for others as we saw several companies, answered in the poll. When somebody's talking about NAICS, they usually mean the national industry level, which is the six digit version. However, agencies may issue a source of sought under the subsector industry group or NAICS industry levels, which are the three, four, and five digit versions respectively. Rather than move forward with last year's proposed size standard changes, the SBA proposed an overhaul of both the methodology to come up with the size standards as well as new values. I'm gonna focus on the size standard changes themselves, but I included a quick summary of the methodology changes on this slide for your reading pleasure. These changes reflect the need to increase the small business industrial base. The changes, if implemented, would certainly increase the count of small businesses, though it does not really address the issue of why the small business count was shrinking in the first place. The biggest changes that affect you as a federal contractor are the shift of a 173 codes from receipt based to employee based size standards and just the dramatic increase in the actual sizes. For our janitorial services example, today, any company with receipts below 22,000,000 is considered small. If the proposed change goes into effect, then any company with with receipts below 58,000,000 are now small, which means janitorial companies currently considered large businesses, but which in... With an average annual rev, receipt between 22 and 58,000,000 would be considered small under the proposed rule. This, was announced in August, and comments were originally due in September but were reopened. And comments will now be accepted until November 20. I've included links in case you wanna make comments yourself. The small percentage were in favor of the changes of those comments that were already received, citing that a company shouldn't be penalized for a successfully outgrowing and outdated threshold. But most comments expressed their concern that this would push out the smaller small businesses, which would defeat the purpose of growing the, business space as well as work against the SBA's own mission to aid and protect small business interests. This table lists all the NAICS codes associated with this year's top, small business opportunities. Some opportunities, like STARS four, will have, multiple NAICS codes assigned. The construction industry will see the most growth based on count as well as the shift from receipts to employee based sizing. These numbers of, potential... The current size, small business business count, and then the potential small business count listed on the table here were provided by SBA in that, proposed rule. So, construction, computing infrastructure providers, and employment all have over a 5% increase in the small business industrial base if these changes are implemented. There is no timeline for when or if the proposed rule will be finalized or if there will be revisions in methodology and or the sizes. The SBA has a challenge on their hands going through the thousands of comments already submitted and the ones still to come. They've got more than a month to still get comments. However, this administration also moves very quickly. The rules, revised or not, could take effect in the coming year, And any solicitation issued before finalization will be under the current size standards, and any solicitation issued afterwards would be using the new size to determine large or small. The reason this is such a major headline for small businesses is the impact on their future experience in federal contracting. This slide touches on several areas where small businesses will be affected by the increase in size standards. As shown on the previous slide, more companies will now be considered small, which would naturally increase competition. For example, some of the incumbents on the upcoming opportunities are no longer considered small businesses. If the solicitation was issued in the next few months, they'd be unable to prime the recompete. However, if the solicitation is in the latter half of fiscal twenty seven or gets delayed into fiscal twenty eight, then there's a chance that it could be issued under a larger size standard. It's possible that some of these no longer eligible incumbents are now back in the game. Larger businesses have deeper pockets. Otherwise, they wouldn't have grown out of the small business size standard to begin with. If a company previously subcontracted work that they could do themselves but use subcontractors in order to fulfill the small business subcontracting plan, well, they're no longer a large business. So why subcontract to a small business if you are a small business yourself and you can do the work on your own? We also may see both, more and fewer small business set asides, and I know I'm contradicting myself saying that, but there may be fewer as require... Requirements currently broken into multiple contracts to achieve small business participation may be bundled as larger small businesses could fulfill the work. Because these larger small businesses can do the work, then the agencies can expect that there are more situations where two or more small businesses are capable of fulfilling the contract. So the opportunity is now set aside rather than full and open competition. While it's unlikely that the opportunities found on our top unrestricted opportunity list will suddenly become small business set aside, it is possible that there could be more set aside activity at the task order level. This change has the potential to both increase and decrease the small business industrial base. Again, another contradictory statement, but while this will help those firms that are just over the current size limit and have to compete with much larger companies, this could make it very tough for those small companies. This may lead to using very small business as a competition type. It exists now, but it's one that I rarely come across unless I'm dealing in big data. This could build in some protections to help those businesses stay in business. This also has reignited interest in creating a mid tier business size. Right now, a mid size business doesn't really exist in federal contracting. You are either large or small based on where you fall along that size standard line. But carving out a mid tier as an acquisition strategy could preserve the smaller small businesses as well as those no longer small companies that are just over the line and now have to compete with the large and super large companies. Now on to opportunities. But let me see if we have... We're good. Okay. Before we look forward, we're gonna take a journey to the past with last year's top opportunities. Three are still pending solicitation release. Four are pending awards. One is officially awarded, and we've got two closed out. Both Centam and the SOF PR MACM appear on the fiscal twenty seven list, and we'll talk more in detail about them later. HOPs is also pending an RFP release. We currently think next summer since the incumbent contracts got a twelve month extension. This would be on the small list, small business list again, except we think that they may be issued using either unrestricted or a a combination of unrestricted and set aside competition. Since our list is exclusive to small business prime, HOPs wasn't on our list again, and it was too small at 3,600,000... Billion, rather, to make it to the unrestricted top 20 list. The SIA, small business on ramp and the prototype integration facility or PIF four opportunity, the SOF global services delivery, and the CWMS three point o are all pending award. We expect awards for PIF next spring, but the other three should happen this quarter. CWMS had some protest files which were sustained, so they'll have to correct the issues which sparked the protests and likely reevaluate some or all of the proposals that were already received depending upon the issues raised. TMAS is our only awarded one. Three companies were awarded four task orders in July 2026. The awardees were Odette, Odyssey Systems Consulting Group, Aventis LLC, who received two task orders, and I'm gonna probably mispronounce this, Gas Management Research and Engineering Inc, and they were the third company. And those awards had a combined value of approximately 1,900,000,000. Our two closed ops are the DHS wide temporary facilities in the naval, and the, navy's engineering technical support for code 434... Oh, I cannot say this word for the last of me. Well, that program, code 434. We were both, both were the, potential recompetes. And with the temporary facilities, task orders are no longer being awarded and the current contracts expired. DHS's priorities changed under the current administration, and there was a significant decrease in the need for these facilities due to reduced border crossings in the last couple years. And I can't remember, but it might have been a Doge casualty as well or at least the task orders. For the navy op, the contracting office confirmed that they will not recompete, once the current MAC is complete. Now let's look towards our fiscal twenty seven, activity. At a 121,000,000,000, the cumulative value of the fiscal twenty seven top 10 small business opportunities list was higher than any previous years. The closest was in fiscal nineteen with 92,000,000,000. And wouldn't you know it? Two of the ops from that year have their follow ons on this year's list, the DLAs SOE TLS and GSA STARS. Both of these opportunities significantly increased their ceiling values from the last competition, a $27,000,000,000 increase for the SOE TLS and a $40,000,000,000 increase for STARS. So what does this mean for you? Well, not so much if you're not in those industries, but if you are supply and logistics for SOE TLS op and IT for STARS, then you know this is where the money's going. Especially for SOETLS, it's actually kind of rare for a large scale IDIQ to hit its ceiling value. These contract vehicles set a very high value so the agencies don't have to jump through hoops if they need more money. I know that's a very simplistic view, but it can be easier to ask for $10 when you only wind up needing 7 than ask for $5 and really need 7, especially if you need those extra $2 immediately or billions of dollars as the case may be. The SOE TLS hit its original 33,000,000,000 ceiling and had to go back and ask for more, and I'll get into that more when we talk about the individual opportunities. If you subtract the 60,000,000,000 and the 50,000,000,000 from the professional services and IT columns in that bar chart, you'll see that the rest of the opportunities, they're all between about 1,000,000 and 2,500,000,000 across the industries. If the industries listed on this chart fall under your company's line of business, then you're in luck. There may be prime opportunities for you. If none of these industries fall in your lines of business, then you may still be in luck because there's likely some subcontracting potential among them. So let's go see what opportunities we are talking about. And here's the list. But since we're gonna be talking about each one separately, let's go get started. Any long time attendees of our top op webinars, you'll recognize that the special operations equipment tailored logistics support or SOETLS, It's the sixth generation of this contract, and it... As I said earlier, it's on... Was on our fiscal nineteen top small business opportunity report. Back then, it was only estimated at $10,000,000,000, if you can say only in the words 10,000,000,000 at the same time. But by the time it was awarded, two years after solicitation release, the award value was 33,000,000,000. In the last fiscal year, this ceiling was raised to 60,000,000,000. It's one of the most highly utilized IDIQs for defense agencies, ranked second among, reported fiscal twenty five spending with only GSA schedule spending ranking higher. The original ceiling was reached due to unexpected needs stemming from COVID, the Ukraine Russia conflict, as well as fulfilling the executive order unleashing American drone dominance and the secretary of war memorandum unleashing US military drone dominance. Oh, and just a little aside, I'll often... I'll primarily use department of defense or say defense instead of department of war, and that's because at Belltech, we base the agencies on how they are, reported in, like, in sam.gov. Sam.gov, you go there, it's gonna be defense. We're gonna use defense. If they ever change it to war, we'll start using war more. So for this opportunity, vendors will need to provide survival protective gear, tactical equipment, diving hyperbaric equipment, communications devices, load carrying and lethality support items, mountain climbing gear, and UAS counter... UAS items, such as captured under the tactical equipment and communication device categories rather than a stand alone item. This program deliberately uses general, product codes instead of specific item lists or NSNs, which is framed as giving DLA flexibility to pull in commercial solutions like the UASC, UAS without needing to rescope the contract. The SOE TLS is the only vehicle of its kind for DLA to utilize this, in the scope and capacity. And while the current contracts are not scheduled to expire until 2031, DLA is not gonna let this vehicle hit another maximum or expire out without another IDIQ in place. An RFI was issued last November, and I expect a draft will likely be, be issued prior to a final solicitation. While the contracting office could not provide an estimated solicitation date, they did provide the useful sooner rather than later. We expect a q two fiscal twenty seven, release, and this is one of those ops on our list we think has the potential to could slip into next year's top op list. But if usage stays at these high levels, then they'll wanna get this thing going. Another opportunity where, again, the previous generation was on our fiscal nineteen top up list is stars. We're now up to stars four, but stars three was on the fiscal nineteen list. And, actually, it was on the fiscal twenty list too because the date slipped. The original stars awarded contracts to just over 304 vendors... 340 vendors. Pardon me. Both stars two and stars three had more than a thousand awardees, and this high volume of awardees mean the battle will be at the task order level. Eight eight stars three supported, requirements inside and outside of the Continental United States, and this, these included data management, information and communications technology, IT operations and maintenance, IT security, cybersecurity, software development, and systems design. IT services based solutions may include work that might not be considered IT on its own, but is integral and necessary to the IT services based solution. That work is characterized as ancillary support and can include non IT services and labor as well as IT equipment, such as server racks, mounts, and, as well as software. Expect STARS four to have similar requirements, but also include newer technologies, especially in the AI, ML field. The real story for STARS four, though, may be an eight a program, the eight a program itself. And as I'm sure every eight a participant is aware, the program has been under intense scrutiny by the current administration. Some of the impacting actions over the last year included, the change from, racial presumptions to focus on documented experience with DEI affirmative action policies. Small disadvantaged business goal reduced to the standard 5% with the plan shift emphasis to, away from socially and economically disadvantaged to just economically disadvantaged. And no longer once an eight a, always an a recompete practice, a historic wide program audit, and what turned into a one year pause on admitting new participants to the eight a program. They just started admitting new, participants in the program back in August, and the last I checked, every... And that was this morning. All of the newly minted eight a contractors were either tribally or native owned, Alaska native owned. Nobody who was from a non native or, tribal owned company. This focus on the eight a program could spill over and affect the future of STARS vehicle. You could say it's already being felt spending under STARS three is not as robust as STARS two, although that could be attributed to how long it takes to transition STARS two tasks to stars three for their recompetes. Of the 1,100 plus awardees under stars three, there are only a 167 vendors left, listed on GSA Stars industry partner spreadsheet as of September 17. Companies were off ramped if they didn't hit minimum spending levels, and I'm sure others may not have survived the eight a program audit, giving them an early exit from the program. STARS three remains a key vehicle for eight a eight a IT service providers. And should GSA move forward with STARRS four, it will continue to be that must have vehicle, for IT industry eight a firms. Deltek projects a possible solicitation in q four, fiscal twenty seven based on typical long procurement cycles between solicitation and award for the STARS program. Though just like SOETLS sixth generation, STARS four could slip into the fiscal, '28 list too. And stars eight, I see a question here that traditionally is just eight a. It is not small business or woman owned. There are other vehicles that would have those as their... I think Polaris is the small business woman owned SDB USB option. Okay. So let's go to our next one. Alright. This is the... Oh, I thought it was only the second, but it is the third. I forgot. The third trip around for CentAM, the Census Transformation and Application Modernization Program. The US Census Bureau is leveraging this framework for the business ecosystem, this decennial 2030 census, early twenty forty census research, and a range of IT, economic, geographic, demographic, research methodology programs, and other programs within the USCB. Key objectives of this program are to modernize and secure the technology environment, and that means moving to cloud enabled architecture using AI and machine learning to power faster data analytics and applying zero trust in devs, DevSecOps practices, all aimed at making the mission support faster and more resilient. The program also aims to prepare the organization to sustain that shift. That includes training the workforce, managing organizational change, and building closer collaboration between contractors and federal stakeholders. Those of you that attended last year's webinar may recognize this cheat sheet, though it's been updated since we last talked about it in last October. And, actually, I updated it this morning after a call with our census experts because the agency just issued a special notice earlier today. Same as reported last year, there are four plan BPAs, enterprise, decennial, geospatial, and systems and program support or SPS. However, they've changed some of the things based on the prioritization of the decennial and geospatial procurements as well as additional refinements to enterprise and SPS. They are now grouping decennial and g... Geospatial as part a and enterprise and SPS as, part b. And this makes sense as there is a lot of similarities between the new part a BPAs, single award evaluation, etcetera, whereas both Part b PPAs are expected to be multiple awards and have similar evaluation. So, and as far as some of the other structure, I'm leaving it as is for now, but that could change. We presume that all four BPAs will still support the first three task areas, order and program management, IT project and program management, and architecture and engineering. And all but, the SBS BPA will support the remaining two task areas, application development and management and data science and data management. A change from last year is the ability to prime or sub on the different BPAs. While those bidding on SBS still cannot prime or sub the other three and the other three still cannot prime or sub SBS, Bidding among the other three BPAs has opened up. Previously, if you wanted to bid on Decennial or Geospatial, you had to also build on, bid on enterprise, and now you can prime or sub any one of the three. You can even be part of multiple teams within the same BPA. However, only if your firm is not used to satisfy the three evaluated factors on competing teams. The evaluation factors and the basis for award are the same for enterprise and SPS BPAs, and decennial and g... Spatial have similar evaluations, factors in the same award basis. And I'm not sure if they're gonna revisit this as part of this a and b, restructuring, so we'll, see that in the coming weeks and and months. And the agency previously planned to issue a draft ARQ in August with the final solicitation in September, and that, of course, did not happen. With this part a b change, a solicitation for part a is expected in q one fiscal twenty seven. We list late October, but given the new plan, this could shift to later in the quarter. There's no timeline available yet for part b solicitation, release. And when it's issued, though, it will be limited to firms that hold a GSA schedule under, SIN 54151... 54151S. And then any JVs that plan to submit a bid must also hold that same schedule and SIN as a JV. Up next is, one part of the human resources solution program. HRS serves as the army strategic sourcing partner for enterprise wide soldier and family readiness programs, centralizing procurement and management to standardize services and drive cost savings across the army. The HRS suite we... That we care about today is the small business set aside recruiting, management, and administrative support IDIQ or RMAS. The other part of the program, PLS or personnel life cycle support, is a $6,000,000,000 opportunity that you can find on this year's unrestricted top opportunity list, though it also includes a small business set aside capabilities within that suite. Back to RMS... Or RMAS. This $1,500,000,000 opportunity provides professional program support, logistical operation support, special programs, recruiting and retention personnel, personnel support, and general administration. Tasks under the current RMAS include services for visitor operations, public affairs, history, and education at Arlington National Cemetery, army national guard workforce and recruiting support, and ROTC support services. A six... A $106,000,000 task held by, incumbent management analysis technologies, was included as one of those, I think was, like, the largest task under that or very close to the largest task. The requirements for gen six compared to... Or gen five compared to gen six will be very similar, though the gen six incarnation is expected to focus on soldier and family health, well-being functions, and, with growth likely in the areas surrounding human performance. Another departure or rather lessons learned is how they'll evaluate, at the task order level. The agency specifically cited avoiding LPTA, which stands for lowest price technically acceptable, as an evaluation in favor of best value trade off, because, apparently, the HR solutions has a reputation of racing to the bottom for competitive pricing according to one of the submitted questions. Multiple awards are planned, though they are deliberately not setting a goal number or range. Under Gen five, there were three awardees that received both RMAS and PLS contracts. Two of those awardees are now considered dormant on RMAS. The use of dormant status or, off ramping and on ramping procedures will continue for the Gen six RMAS. It's used to manage contractor performance, maintain a competitive environment, and ensure consistently qualified pool of high performing resources. There are no prime sub exclusivity restrictions for RMAS. Multiple team participation is permitted. You'll see... Also see prime sub relationships between PLS and RMS with, where a company might be a prime on one and a sub on another. The sales station was originally expected in August, another one. That release was delayed due to the rollout of the contracting office's contract writing system as well as unforeseen internal transitions. Deltek pushed the projected solicitation date into October, though cautions the date could move even further to the right, and proposals will be due about two months after RFP release. If the agency awards without discussions, then awards will be staggered starting about September 2027. However, if they do hold discussions, then December 2027 is their target time frame. Switching to infra... To construction, we have RDI, three, which is the third iteration of this vehicle, and it's for rapid disaster in infrastructure. When I first started in the market research side of federal contracting, I learned the corps of engineers tends to have overlapping contracts for their recurring needs. They frequently have at least one active task order, contract while they're soliciting to replace expiring contracts. For RDI, this translates into multiple matocs procured at different times under different competition types. The ordering period for the incumbent contracts of our small business set aside, RDI three ended in 2024. However, there are three active RDI matocs, the eight a set aside, which has contracts ending in 2031, HUBZone set aside with contracts ending in 2029, and full and open competition with contracts ending next October. While the eight a and HUBZone contracts have not seen much activity, the full and open one, which had an original ceiling of 999,000,000, also reported, or has already reported 2,700,000,000. This may be why the total value of the small business RDI three is estimated at 1,500,000,000, which is a significant jump from the previous award, which only had a ceiling of 99,000,000. We expect the scope could be expanded to include services traditionally provided through the full and open MATOC, but, again, this is just speculation as the agency has not issued a draft. The previous small business Maytag included requirements such as flood recovery, which supported flood control, water diversion projects, embankments, channel alignments, and structures, infrastructure recovery, which was the restoration, repair, and demolition of facilities, utilities, real property systems, and other infrastructure requirements that could not be performed in required time frames, emergency management, and military, which included construction of facilities, infrastructure, water and sanitation systems, electrical systems, fences, lighting, and roads to support troop movement. A successful contractor must respond quickly and effectively. All work will be time sensitive in nature, necessitating an immediate response to mitigate threat to life and property and or operational impacts to the government. This also means the volume of work is unpredictable. That also contributes to a high ceiling as the army doesn't want to have to ask for more money to, in order to respond to a disaster. The latest core of engineer forecast projects a solicitation release in q two of fiscal twenty seven, and we expect an award to be made by the end of fiscal twenty seven or early fiscal twenty eight. I see a question, that was about the previous op. Will this, the RMAS... Will this overlap with OASIS plus small business human resources lane awards? It's possible. One of the things in its favor is that this is, for the army, and they may have built in requirements of... That are very specific to the army's mission, which would, put it under the army's umbrella, especially as they have this PLS and the RMS suite. But, honestly, a lot of stuff goes through OASIS. And so it it... You can never... It's it's gonna always be a possibility. Any type of work that is, could be done over... Under Oasis has the potential to go to Oasis or Oasis plus. Sorry. Okay. Moving on. So I am a firm believer in the concept of a palate cleanser as they could apply to anything you're doing, not just a meal. So here is today's version to give you a quick brain reset before we dive back into the ops. I thought that this picture was apt because at the halfway point of my last webinar, which was my annual Fed one zero one FAQ, I was interrupted while presenting and round up with a mouthful of fur. Okay. Enough of my junior assistant. Onto our sixth opportunity of the day. Staying in the construction industry, CMAC is our first of two Indian small business economic enterprise, and I'm not sure if this is how people pronounce the acronym. It's what I'm doing today is ISBE. So ISBE set asides, it's the first time I have ever had one of these on the top small business list, and this year, we actually have two. So for the construction multiple award contract for the Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, this encompasses a wide range of design build and design bid build projects such as new construction, demolition and renovation, and systems and infrastructure work across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and fire protection disciplines. Facilities built under this contract spanned a wide range from educational and detention facilities to medical administration and industrial buildings, as well as housing, training, and infrastructure like birds and warehouses. Two, contract generations ago, this work was under the National Multiple Award Construction Contract or NMAC. It was small business set aside with a ceiling of 500,000,000. There were five contracts which expired in 2023. The follow on was the CMAC, this company's... Or this project's incumbent, which limited competition to ISB and raised the ceiling to 1,500,000,000. 13 contracts were awarded in 2023 and are scheduled to expire in May 2028. The fiscal twenty twenty seven competitive CMAQ didn't change much from the current version. It's still ISBE set aside. The The ceiling remains 1,500,000,000, and the requirements are essentially the same. Though the current con... IDIQ did not take advantage of it, it did have the authority for on ramping, which will not be part of the follow on. Estimated project sizes have changed too. Under the current contract, projects were expected to range from 5,000,000 to 30,000,000 with some projects as much as a 100,000,000. This recompete now expects projects from 5,000,000 to 60,000,000, and some could even ex... Exceed 200,000,000. The follow on CMAQ is likely to favor firms with demonstrated ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects across geographically dispersed locations, including projects within Indian country and throughout the Continental United States. Educational and, detention facility expertise appears to remain a strategic priority and may become an important discriminator during the recompete. This is noteworthy because the original statement of work from the previous iteration identified many facility types, but market research notice specifically singled out these two categories. The government continues to place strategic emphasis on modular and off-site construction solutions that can reduce delivery schedules and improve cost efficiency. An RFI was issued earlier this summer, not only to identify businesses capable of performing services under this NAQ but also potential stand alone construction contracts. Planning for the CMAC follow on procurement is expected to start in fiscal twenty seven, and our analysts think it could be issued by the end of this quarter. Since this is the first time we've had two ISB set aside opportunities on the top small business list, let alone two of them, I thought I'd take a quick detour to talk about this procurement strategy. Unlike SBA programs of eight a, women owned, HUBZone, and SDVOSB, firms can self certify to claim ISB status, though the contracting office may request supporting documentation to prove their, status in HHS's Indian Health Services, the IHS, as a representation form, which I have linked on this page. If you download the slides located in the doc section tab, then you can click the link on the the PDF. Ownership, management, and control of earnings are key factors in certification. I've outlined the requirements here, and I will spare you the reading. And, of course, the, to add the small business part of ISB, ISB, you need to be considered a small business under the size standards for the NAICS code associated with the procurement. For CMAQ, there are currently 270 ISB companies with a primary NAICS of 236220. For the next opportunity, which is also ISB set aside, there are 48 companies with the primary NAICS of 561320, the code associated with the nursing services opportunity. Now, of course, not all the companies that are considered small and in this specific industry will be bidding on these opportunities, but the competitors will be among this number. If you're a GovWind subscriber, you can use our company profiles to identify ISB firms and other business types and look at their contract activity and other information. These are your potential competitors and teammates. Our second ISB set aside is the Billings Area Nursing Services for the Indian Health Services Agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the previous solicitation, the agency projected a need for registered nurses across the following disciplines. There was, 32 outpatient, 32 emergency room urgent care, 10 public health, 20 inpatient medical surgical, six labor and delivery, and four operating room, for a total of a 104 registered nurses with each location requiring a different mix of services and FTE counts. We expect the follow-up will require similar services, though the count of, registered nurses by, service will likely be adjusted to fit the needs of today. Within the IHS, under the vitamin, Indian Act 25 USC 47, They've set up a tiered set aside process. If they don't receive at least two reasonably priced officer... Offers from ISVs, then they will open up the competition for SDVOSVs and so forth down the line. It's unlikely this will happen for this opportunity as there were six offers submitted, submitting proposals, in the previous competition, and there were five awards. Those offers were evaluated on program relevant past performance, management, and ability to meet the performance work statement and key personnel. The value of this opportunity is based on the cumulative award value of the incumbent awards. However, actual spend is significantly less at 81,000,000 with only one year left on the contract. The IDIQ is relatively task heavy, though, with 81 awarded tasks so far. The acquisition strategy is still being determined by the contracting office, and they were unable to provide a time frame, when a solicitation may be released. We projected the solicitation could be in late q two or late q three based on the timeline associated with the previous competition. Moving from health care to IT, we have Omega two point o. This effort seeks to provide low code, no code, or LCNC product and platform onboarding, management, engineering support, governance, and assurance, which is Omega services to this, this is so they can enable, manage, operate, and sustain the underlying digital transformation center, the DTC technology ecosystem, including modular and reusable technology components supporting EA enterprise modernization initiatives. In addition, Omega serves as DTC's enterprise governance platform management and assurance function for AI enabled capabilities that are native to, integrated with, or reasonable across DTC, SaaS, PaaS, LCNC, API, automation, and emerging technology environments. According to the VA's office of information technology, the priorities for Omega two point o are to reuse technology accelerators and shared components and to automate and AI enable operations. Their key issues are to streamline release readiness gates and strengthen automated testing. There were 17 labor categories cited in the draft performance work statement. These included, but were not limited to, project manager, program manager, platform architect, senior software systems architect, functional area experts, line of roles one and two, and cybersecurity engineer, as well as several AI categories, AI engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI solution architect. The draft performance work statement was released with RFI in June 2026 along with looking for capable vendors and comments on the requirements the agency was considering using a hybrid firm fixed price and time and materials contract type. Omega two point o is a follow on to the Omega task order held by, Sprezzatur Management Consulting, formerly Quantum Management LLC. The Omega one point o task order had an original award value of 771... Or, ah, 779,000,000 in 2024 for a presumed five year duration. The ceiling value is now reported at 625,000,000 for a three year period expiring in September 2027 instead of 2029. Reported spending over the last two years was about 200,000,000, per year for omega one point o. Omega two point o has an estimated value range between 500,000,000 and 999,000,000 in a planned duration of five years. So should spending under omega two point o be at pace with the incumbent, then the obligated dollars should reach that $990,000,000 estimate. At least 18 unique subcontractors were reported under the incumbent task order, the majority of which were veteran or service disabled, firms. The VA's acquisition forecast projects solicitation release on or about December 1 with an award in q four fiscal twenty seven. One last note, Omega one point o was solicited under the GSA mass schedule as a total SDVOSB set aside. It was not posted to eBuy, but instead issued direct to vendors. According to our VA experts, the OIT and Technology Acquisition Center, the TAC, doesn't have a habit of issuing solicitations directly to RFI responders. They're usually posted to evy or sam.gov. But just in case the v s... The VA decides to go direct to vendor again with Omega two point o, solicitation, Firms interested in this opportunity but didn't get a chance to respond to the RFI should contact the contracting office and notify them of their interest. You don't wanna miss out on something. So, I see a question. Omega is rebidding early. Think it may go big next time. So it looks like they're... I I would have to... I'm sorry. I don't have my my VA experts on the phone with us today. But it does look like they're cutting off a couple of years, and they're going early. It's possible to kind of maybe stay ahead of the technology. That's my speculation, not our VA experts. Okay. Moving to our next one. So the, SOF PR multiple award contract for modifications, commonly referred to as, MACM two, joined Centum as another former twenty twenty six op now on fiscal twenty twenty seven top up list. We originally projected the late q two fiscal twenty six release factoring the procurement cycle from the previous competition, while this recompete is moving a bit slow. Tasks issued against the IDIQ will support aircraft mod... Modification, modernization, integration, sustainment, and engineering activities across the SOF, PR, and rotary division mission areas. This includes fall on or replacement aircraft platforms, associated mission systems, integrated weapon systems, avionic subsystems, support equipment, and training systems. There are seven functional areas for task orders, modification, technical support, production, testing, logistics, sustainment, and travel associated with execution of task orders. The competition type has not been officially established as small business set aside, but we expect it will be set aside that way. The previous competition with small business set aside, teaming is encouraged if it will help the offer enhance their ability to provide the services needed. The previous competition awarded 12 contracts in total, three for pool a, fixed wing, two for pool b, which was rotary wing, and seven contracts with, which covered both pools a and pool b. The source of sought does not lay out the same pool division but does mention pools in the general sense and that firms will only be able to pursue tasks within their own awarded pool. The source of sought was issued in June and capability statements were collected in July, and the contracting office would only confirm that solicitation will be issued in fiscal twenty seven. We think it could be in q one. The agency said they didn't expand, expand, extend... Plan to extend the current contract, so they'll need to have something in place prior to key task orders expiring. And the last opportunity on our list is Front Range multiple award construction contract or FRMAC. This is a recompete of the FRMAC awarded in 2020. The front range consists of seven military installations across Colorado and Wyoming. We've got Fort Carson, Cheyenne Mountain, Peterson, Shriver, Air Force Academy, Buckley, and Effie Warren, including the missile alert facilities. Contractors on this vehicle are performing general construction, renovation, repair work, including HVAC mechanical, electrical, and fire alarm suppression systems, roofing and building envelope work, security infrastructure, utility systems, and interior reservations along with some, demolitions and new construction. There were 10 contracts awarded across two tiers, six tier one and four tier two. Tier one was eight a set aside and limited to projects under the simplified acquisition threshold or SAT. At the time of award in early August twenty twenty, the SAT was a 150,000 and increased to 250,000 starting 08/31/2020. It remained at this level until just last year, which it was, when the SAT was raised to 350,000 on 10/01/2025. Tier two was for tasks above the SAT. Tier two contracts were small business set aside. However, once the minimum guarantee was met, tier two tasks were competed among both tier one and two... Tier two contractors. Six of the current f, FRMAT contracts remain active, four tier two and two tier two, four tier one and two tier two. Tongue twister. These contracts will expire in 2030 if all options are exercised, but the next option itself expires in August 2027. The contracting office has not provided a timeline for draft or final solicitation release. While they could be doing long term advance planning, the shrinking bidders pool in their spring twenty twenty six market research points towards potential award by August 2027 at the current contract's option expiration. With only six contracts left and only two tier two, it seems like the, they'll attempt... Seems unlikely they'll do an on ramp with only a few years left of this ten year contract. Deltek projects a possible solicitation release in the next few months in order to solicit, evaluate, and award contracts by next summer. Wrapping up our top 10, here is your cheat sheet matrix, this time organized by industry. You may not be considering any of these ops for your own business development pipeline, but I would investigate them for possible subcontracting opportunities. There may be ancillary requirements that fall in your wheelhouse. I've included both the current and proposed size standards with the associated NAICS for each opportunity. Should the solicitation issued... Be issued before finalization, the current size will apply. But after, then the potential bidders pool could expand, perhaps even including companies that identified themselves as large in that poll question I asked earlier. Almost all of the dates here are Deltek estimates. Many agencies do not provide solicitation release time frames or will only do so closer to, the closer it is by... To the final solicitation release. And of those that do, dates often slip with a new estimate provided as a few on the list have already, proven. Our analysts spend a lot of time contacting the contracting officials, combing forecasts, and otherwise research to find solid government provided, acquisition milestones. However, dates may pass with no solicitation or the agency cannot or will not provide that information. Priorities may have shifted, resources may be directed elsewhere, or change in leadership causes planning to reset to get approvals, and all of which has happened significantly, in the last, since the current administration took office a year and a half ago. It could even be internal issues going on at the department or agency or office level, such as with RMAS, where the contracting office is switching to a new contract writing system. And I remember, many years ago now, a contract official at a NAFAC office got in a car accident and was out of commission for months. All of the projects that he ran were put on hold, and no solicitations were issued until he was back in office and up and running. If a government provided date isn't available or the date passed with no action, our analysts come up with their best estimate when activity could occur. There are several influencing factors, in coming up with our estimates, which she listed on the slide here. First, did the government have an estimated date at least at one point in time? That can provide a timeline, timing of how long between solicitation and award or whether they plan a draft or industry day. What they plan can help determine pacing if those dates slip. We also look at historic activity. What happened during the previous procurement? Were there any delays last time? Or maybe there were protests. That could cause a delay at the start, so maybe the contract ended later than you think, or they've applied lessons learned, and they wanna protest proof any follow on before issued. You may, start when you think it'll be awarded, and then you kinda work your way backwards. When... What form of the solicitation will also influence the timeline? Task orders could have a very fast turnaround as, well as some product buys with just a few hours is not very common. Having less than a full day or maybe just two days is reality for some of these tasks. Opportunities that use the SF three thirty forms, which is architecture engineering ops, none of them on this list, fall into that. But that type can have a very long procurement cycle. It... This is also called a qualification based selection, QBS, where firms submit their information, it's ranked, and negotiations begin with the top ranked respondent. These can take months or more than a year from issuance to award. Between value and type of work, values matters more. Higher value usually means more detailed requirements, more comprehensive responses, longer evaluation, and higher chance of protests, all of which affect the ops on this list. Type of work mainly matters when it brings in extra complexity, certifications, regulatory hurdles, and the like. If the planned opportunity is a multiple award IDIQ, then they might fast track initial awards and then let the contracts, contractors duke it out at the task order level. Our analysts look at all of these factors as well as agency behavior and other outside influencers to come up with an estimate. When you're building your pipeline, you need to consider that whatever timeline you're planning on may shift and probably will shift. It's always exciting when the solicitation comes out on the exact day the government projected because reality rarely lives up to plans. Use these factors to help, plan when activity could occur in the face of delays and lack of government, provided forecasting. Whether you plan to bid one of these opportunities we covered today or other projects in your pipeline, everything we just walked through only matters if you... Your team can turn it... That intelligence into a competitive proposal. And that's where gov win proposals comes in. It's coming soon. Our new module will connect the same twenty plus years of analyst backed intelligence you rely on into your proposal process. This means your BD research, subject matter expert input, and vetted intel won't live in separate places. Your writers can start day one on the strategy instead of the setup, and your team can pursue, more of the good fit opportunities you're already finding instead of leaving them on the table because you don't have the capacity to chase them off. If that sounds something, like something worth exploring, you can click yes on the poll question that is either gonna pop up on your screen independently or it might be under a tow... A poll area. Oh, I I see we've got it under the poll area if you click on the tabs on the right side of your screen. And then we also have, as part of our resources, the small business resource center, and this is GovWinds, site. It's a compilation of information of interest to small businesses and in support of small businesses. But even if you are not a small business, these are great resources. Some of these topics require a government subscription, but some are open to anybody whether you are a client or not. And I believe the small business training guides, that is... I have an asterisk here. Some of the information is there available only by subscription, and some of it is not. Whereas the top six listed on this table, all... Or everything into there requires a subscription. That's my warning timer to wrap it up soon. Okay. So we also have, if you are a government client, this is only available to our subscribers. We've got, you can get help through our training and support library, build your own top 10 list that fits your offerings and your competition type and your, you know, goal, target value. There's a variety of training options both on using our service and topical, or reach out to your customer success manager directly. And then lastly, I have two pages for this webinar. Because the government loves their acronyms, I have tried to capture all the ones that I used on the slides and the ones that I thought I would say based on my notes. And with that, let's see if we've got some questions. We've got, about five minutes left to see if I can answer some of the questions that have been submitted. Let's see. So, given the pending realignment of NAICS codes, do you think that there is a possibility of the SOF GSD being canceled and recompeted? Let's see. Let me see if I can pull that one up. Is that this one? Oops. Nope. Oh, you know what? I'll just go to this page as our kind of... So I... I'm not sure. I I think that that's pretty solidly small business. I think it... Like, where I see some of the the movement around is really at the eight a level, and that's because the eight a program has been under such scrutiny, and some of the changes in the FAR and the rules have been, you know, as I said... I mentioned earlier, once an eight a... Always an eight a used to kinda be the the philosophy, and that's no longer the case. There's a lot of times... Like, well, now, if it was used to be eight a sole source, then it could be open for competition. The... Like, they... They're supposed to see if they can procure it off a, like, a GSA owned or operated vehicle. And then if it's j... Eight a competitive, they can see... They don't have to lock it in as eight a. They could see if it's another socioeconomic category or regular small business. But I feel pretty good that if something's small business now, it's gonna say... Stay small business. And I think any proposed changes in the NAICS size standard will help it stay small business because the small business pool will increase. Okay. Let's see. So... And got to, like, STAR... There's a question. Is STARS going away? We're kind of... This is a... This is definitely a watch and see, because of that scrutiny of the eight a program. There's there's... We're a little... Or I I know I'm personally a little nervous about it because I do the eight a, webinar annually. Adeltek has a series of small business, socioeconomic category, webinar series, and I do the eight a one. We also have a HUBZone, a woman owned, and a service disabled one. And so with all the scrutiny of eight a and the fact that they had a one year pause of of allowing firms or or submitting for... What... Getting firms approved, that's the word I'm looking for, for the eight a program. And it just started up two months ago, but all of the firms that have been approved so far have been Alaska native firms or tribally owned. So or or or native owned. So they haven't been your small disadvantaged business or your, woman owned small... You know, those have not been the company's types that have been approved in the last two months. And so it's tough. I... You know, I I find that it's it's really tough to be an eight a in these circumstances. And so they could find eight a stars as well. You know? You've got other programs. We don't need a separate one for eight a, anymore. This is all just speculation, but it is something that is a little concerning. So I don't necessarily think that it's going away. I hope it's not going, away, but you never know. Okay. So, is that opportunity count in thousands? I'm not sure the context of that question, so I'm gonna move on. So the spending in in the IT... In... I think this is also a STARS related question, spending down. It's, again, it's speculation. They could have moved to other vehicles. And then there's there's also... Since I don't have spending listed there for both stars two and stars three, you know, there's an overlap of when those task orders expire and before their follow ons move to, move to the next, version, the STARS three. And so that could bring some of the spending down a little bit. We do still see task orders going to STARS, so it's not like it's been abandoned. But it... It's not... I just don't think it's the powerhouse that it used to be. Let's see. Alright. I'm looking... So let me... There were some presubmitted questions while I'm trying to sort through this. So, there was a question about, is Deltek adding, the many OTA consortions with the DOD space? Yeah. There's a crap ton of OTAs. Sorry. Using my casual language here. So we... There's a lot of activity under the consortias that happens behind a login wall, and there's a lot of regulations about information distribution. We do have, some opportunities for this, and then we also have an excellent OTA task team. Oh, they call themselves the OTAN for... Because it's not just OTAs. There's CSOs and other types of n for nontraditional. And they have on the, they have on our market analysis page in Dublin, which does have... Is, I believe, open, for nonclients as well, that you can go and they have lists and a lot of great information there. Alright. It looks like I am hitting the wall on time. Oh, army maps. Army maps was a was an unrestricted opportunity. I believe they talked about that a little bit last week on the, unrestricted thing, which I hope everybody goes back and listens to. If you haven't already, there's a link both in the docs page. And if you download the slides, I've got a link on there. But, since we're right at 03:00, I just wanna thank you so much for joining me today. If you missed anything or wanna relisten, you'll receive an email with a link to the on demand recording within twenty four hours. And don't forget to check out deltek.com for more webinars and content you can use. And with that, good luck, and may all your proposals be winning ones.