The GovCon Grove - Good Government supported by Great Companies - October 28, 2024

This weekly newsletter spotlights some of the top GovCon companies and leaders who recognize the importance of good culture and giving back as a way to attract and retain key talent, and good partners, thereby creating a winning formula for success. We also share some of the partner insights and featured posts found on OrangeSlices over the past week. Details on OS AI’s Daily Fresh Squeezed Newsletter are available below.??

Looking for a good partner????

• Inc. Names Summit Strategy as a 2024 Power Partner Award Winner?

• FEMA focused WOSB to know?

• Mobomo – Creating Elegant Solutions to Complex Challenges?

• DOT focused WOSB to know?

• A Quick Check-in with REI Systems new COO Gregg Garrett?

Featured Posts on OS AI last week:??

• ?? First Phase of OASIS+ 8(a) apparent awardee notifications released - 182 firms named?

• VA's $60.7B T4NG2 IDIQ hits roadblock - A Re-evaluation, Collusion and Timing?! Contracts Attorney Jim Dougherty shares insight?

• ??OS AI Premium: Updated - Courts ask VA to go back to the drawing board on $60.7B VA T4NG2 IDIQ?

• CMS names Patrick Newbold as new Chief Information Officer (CIO)?

• ??OS AI Premium: HHS kills $339M Unified Financial Management System (UFMS), Systems Integration (SI) and Hosting Administration (SIHA) support task?

• Meet the 2025 Engage Fed Citizen Services 150: Driving Innovation Forward!?

• ??OS AI Premium: Further delay on $50B CIO-SP4 GWAC as NITAAC required to address glaring deficiencies?

Events to have on your Radar:???

Keep abreast of the industry days and networking opportunities you don’t want to miss. Stay in the loop. Bookmark this Upcoming Event page now. Check them out here.??

The Digital WOSB Alliance is hosting a government panel: "Breaking Barriers: Elevating WOSBs through Strategic Set-Asides?- This event brings together key government panelists to discuss representation and advocacy for WOSBs through enhancing awareness, influencing policy, supporting procurement and increasing visibility. Details here.?

With the new fiscal year ahead, we know your calendars will be filling up with a lot of great must-attend networking and giving back focused events. Have and event we can help support? Message us at [email protected].

Included below we continue to shine a light on the good stuff, highlighting a few weekly examples of leading GovCon firms and executives who are proving that they understand it is not just about winning, but about building a lasting corporate culture and giving back.??????

As you focus plans for the year ahead, knowing that great talent can go anywhere, support anyone, consider the influence good culture and giving back has on those decisions…?

Culture?

• Driving a culture of collaboration and innovation Aptive Resources announced the winner of its employee Innovation Challenge. Aptive employees voted for the winning innovation from among six competition finalists which included staff from Aptive and its joint venture partner, Artemis ARC .?

• CVP (Customer Value Partners) ’s 3rd Annual Oktoberfest on the Roof brought the team together to celebrate, enjoy each other’s company, and reinforce its commitment to community engagement and giving back.?

• Dev Technology Group, Inc. was out and about taking part in its annual Week of Service – yes a week. Amond the activities, the Dev team volunteered with Veterans Moving Forward, an organization that provides service dogs and canine therapy services to veterans with physical and/or mental health challenges, at no cost to the veteran. They also volunteered at the Food for Others Warehouse helping sort and pack Power Packs for distribution to students facing food insecurity in our community.?

• Tria Federal (Tria) announced a partnership with ACP under which Tria employees will serve as mentors in ACP’s flagship mentoring program, which has helped more than 34,000 veterans transition to civilian careers since 2008. Through this program, post-9/11 veterans and active-duty military spouses receive customized, one-on-one mentorship from experienced professionals over a 12-month period.??

??Giving Back?

• Yes, this one falls under both in our opinion… CVP (Customer Value Partners) ’s recent Oktoberfest event kicked off its CVPCares food drive for Food for Others. Throughout the month, our CVPCares Committee will continue collecting and delivering donations to Food for Others, directly helping local families facing food insecurity. ?

• Planned Systems International’s 26th Annual Charity Golf Tournament benefited two amazing organizations: Special Love, supporting children and families affected by cancer, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, dedicated to finding cures and improving access to treatments. Not only was this a great event by them but a great opportunity for those focused on giving back including Ibility LLC who showed up to support the event.?

• HighPoint Digital announced its Charity of the Quarter is the Clear Cell Sarcoma Foundation. This foundation, formerly known as Sara’s Cure, is dedicated to making Clear Cell Sarcoma survivable through education and scientific research. Their mission also includes ensuring that all patients and caregivers impacted by this rare cancer have a voice and platform to enact change and strive toward a cure.? ?
• Not be left out…. Shelley McGuire announced that this year’s Engage Elev8 event will give back to Empower4Life, a Baltimore, Maryland based non-profit that serves local homeless youth through programs that teach them how to get and stay happy and healthy. ?? This is all possible with the help of our Matching Donors, Index Analytics LLC and ePATHUSA, Inc??

OrangeSlices Tip of the Week????

Have a favorite charity? Planning an upcoming fundraising event and looking for industry support? Message us at [email protected] and let us help get the message out through this newsletter. Yep. You’re reading this. Your colleagues and industry partners are too.?

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The GovCon Grove is compiled and published by Heather Seftel-Kirk , OrangeSlices AI’s Exec VP and our own Corporate Culture Champion charged with making sure we don’t just talk the talk, but we walk the walk. Follow Heather and connect if you are a leader passionate about employee experience and #doingittherightway??????

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