“If I told you that two of the charter members of a small support group for non-traditional IT contractors in the federal marketplace are named Oddball and Fearless, what would your reaction be? If you are like me, your reaction is: This isn’t your father’s IT market. These contractors are non-traditional in more ways than one…”
“Oddball and Fearless are both charter members of the Digital Services Coalition, about which I wrote a blog in early 2018, and which I revisited two weeks ago in a post about a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services BPA award for Medicare systems modernization awarded to six non-traditional IT contractors — five of whom, I noted, are in the Coalition. (Fearless is one of those six winners.)”
“Perhaps it should not be surprising that an organization with members named Oddball and Fearless have created a non-traditional industry association…”
“The Coalition currently allows only small and mid-tier businesses, but in 2020 will consider allowing up to three large ones (annual revenues over $55 million) to join. But another sign of their purity is that they worry allowing bigger firms…”
“… The CMS Medicare systems modernization BPA, most of whose awardees are Coalition members, will produce a situation where Coalition members will be in head-to-head competition with each other for task orders much more than before. It will be interesting to see how the Coalition navigates that change…” Read the full article here.
Source: Oddball and Fearless take on the federal marketplace – By Steve Kelman, July 30, 2019. FCW.
