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VA just signaled your exact lane: HACS SDVOSB Cybersecurity Architecture & Engineering solicitation expected week of (notice 36C10B26Q0654 — real, on SAM.gov). Capture brief ready. SAM.govRadar
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CMMC Phase 2 suspended Jul 13 — Reform Task Force RFI closed today; your response filed. Phase 1 / SPRS obligations unchanged (yours: 88 / 110 current). war.govSPRS
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FY26 ends in — historically 30–40% of annual obligations land in Q4. Two proposals in flight. USASpending
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More overnight
4 more signals across your watchlist›📜
GAO flagged deficiencies in Treasury patch-automation work — a capture angle for your IRS follow-on (office 2032H5). GAO report
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Your SBA VetCert 3-year renewal falls this fall — existential for VA set-asides since self-certification ended Dec 2024. Meridian queued the paperwork. SBA VetCert
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NAVFAC CECS sources-sought refreshed — your March rule-of-two response is on file. SAM.gov
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GSA OneGov $1 AI enterprise deals expire — 120+ agencies, ~3.4M seats, no successor pricing announced. Federal AI adoption went vertical; the pricing cliff is your opening. GSA
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The numbers
$8.2M pipeline · 5 contracts (1 sub) · 30% win rate›Qualified pipeline
$8.2M
▲ $340K this week · 6 pursuits
Held contracts
5
4 primes + 1 sub · DHS recompete won
Proposals in flight
2
flagship due in
Win rate · TTM
30%
3 of 10 decided
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New this week
flagship amendment + 2 tracked›RFQ · 30-PG VOLFit 94
VA Cybersecurity A&A / ATO Support
✓ 31 reqsOutline ready
RFQ · SAPFit 90
DHS Help Desk — DEFEND Recompete
✓ WON — defended as incumbentnew award
eBUY RFQFit 86
GSA MAS — Security Assessment Order
HACS SIN held
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Meridian proposed 3 things overnight
RFI draft · CPARS rebuttal · teaming intro›✍️
Teaming agreement drafted — DISA GSM-O II sub under Leidos
Labor-category sub · $850K / 3 yrs · signature due
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PPQ request drafted — T4NG prime reference · surge 2→5
Your sub work is sub-SAT, so proof is the prime's PPQ, not CPARS
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Teaming intro queued — Apex Cyber (SDVOSB)
Similarly-situated bench for the §M.4 surge story on VA A&A
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Deadlines
next is DISA teaming in ›DISA GSM-O II — teaming agreement signature ·
VA A&A flagship — quote due ·
VA HACS SDVOSB (36C10B26Q0654) — solicitation expectedweek of ·
DoW SBIR 26.BZ Release 5 — submission windowopens ·
Crunch detected: DISA teaming signature () and VA flagship submission () collide next week. Meridian re-sequenced the draft plan. View plan
Your strongest shot today
Every federal notice in one feed — read, scored & summarized; apply-ready separated from market-intel.
● 8 live sources · synced 2m ago · 1,000+ available ›
● SAM.gov · 2m ago
● GSA eBuy🔒 private
● SeaPort-NxG🔒 private
● DLA DIBBS
● Congress.gov
● FPDS / USASpending
● SBIR.gov / DSIP
● SBA DSBS / VetCert
+ Connect CRM, SharePoint, Drive…
Reading 50M+ legislative & regulatory docs300k+ contracts watched live1,000+ AI-enriched sources
⭐ Best fit · ready to write
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VA Cybersecurity A&A / ATO Support
✓
Imported✓
31 reqs shredded✓
Outline built…
Draft 72%94
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Filter the feed
For you · 38 · + 6 lenses›For you · 38
RFPs dropped
Sources Sought · 24
Pre-RFP signals · 412
Recompetes · 67
GAO/OIG flags · 12
SBIR / Grants · 41
Set-aside · 196
Subcontract · 12
The label lies; the PWS does not. The Navy sources sought below is coded as an engineering buy but its statement of work carries RMF, A&A and vulnerability-management language verbatim — a keyword search on the code misses it. Two notices that do match your codes or your office got screened out for the same reason, in reverse. Tune my NAICS profile →
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AF Test Center — Small Business Cybersecurity Network (Edwards AFB)
Real notice · signalFit 88›
RSVP
AI summary: Not a solicitation — the Test Center is standing up a small-business cybersecurity network and holding an industry day at Edwards AFB on Sep 17–18. Total small-business set-aside sitting on NAICS 541512, your primary code. Meridian action: RSVP drafted for your signature () and government questions pre-written from your A&A capability statement — questions close Aug 20. SAM.gov
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CISA — Strategic Cyber Tools Buying (RFI, via GSA AAS)
Real notice · signalFit 85›
RFI
AI summary: GSA is running market research on how CISA should buy strategic cyber tools — an RFI, so the deliverable is a position, not a price. Meridian action: response drafted arguing that tools without evidence automation still leave the A&A workload on the government; . Answering market research is how your language ends up in the requirement. SAM.gov
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NSWC Panama City — C5ISRT Next-Gen Cybersecurity
Shape the PWSFit 92›
DUE
AI summary: The strongest real match on the board. The sources-sought text carries RMF, A&A and vulnerability-management language verbatim — the exact scope you deliver on the T4NG cyber sub — even though the notice does not read like a cyber buy at the label level. Meridian action: capability statement drafted from your delivered work, . SAM.gov
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Space Force CNECTS — consolidation IDIQ
Teaming-onlyFit 61›
IND DAY
AI summary: A consolidation IDIQ — many requirements folded into one vehicle, total small-business. Industry day ; responses due Dec 23, 2026. Meridian verdict: teaming-only — too big to prime, and the AI says so out loud. A 7-person shop cannot carry a consolidation IDIQ as prime; the honest play is a named sub seat on a larger small-business prime, positioned now, 4 months before responses. SAM.gov
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Screened out
2 notices that matched your codes or your office and still failed›🎥
36C10B26Q0746 — VA West LA, AI-enabled physical-security cameras. Same VA office as your flagship, adjacent NAICS (541519), wrong domain entirely: physical security, not A&A. Screened out — zero B&P spent. SAM.gov
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M9549426R0019 — USMC insider-threat program. Reads like a fit until the notice states the intent to sole-source to the incumbent (Everfox). Not competable. Screened out. SAM.gov
Two afternoons you did not spend. On a 7-person shop the filter is worth as much as the feed.
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COMPLIANCE
RFQ · 30-PAGE VOL
🔒 FedRAMP High · CUI ›
⚡ link → ready in 3m 12s
VA Cybersecurity A&A / ATO Support
Read it
Prove it · 31
Price it
Defend it
The 60-second brief
AI READ THE FULL RFQRED FLAGSSize-class-up bidPage limit 25→30 (Amd 002)Surge scored separately (15%)
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ATO package management in eMASS + SDLC visibility + RMF continual process improvement for VA OIS — reduce ATO expirations. §C.3 p.92
Evaluation is best-value tradeoff; technical (40%) with price a separate factor — don't race to the bottom. §M.2 p.143
§M.4 Staffing & Surge is scored separately (15%) — this killed both prior losses; agent pre-drafted it from the T4NG 2→5 surge. §M.4 p.164
Key personnel need active clearances at quote time — Apex Cyber similarly-situated bench closes this. §L.5 p.125
Page limit 30 pages; Amendment 002 raised it from 25 and added a quantified risk register at L.3.2(e). Amd 0026
Same office, same program. ALVAREZ LLC holds 36C10B26F0172 — $3.06M, FY26, software supporting VA's Cybersecurity Operations Center and its Assessment & Authorization program, bought through this same 36C10B office. Not a forecast: an award you can look up. USASpending7
VA has to do more with less. OIT cut roughly 12% of staff and the FY26 IT budget is down $300M — and VA said the answer itself at its March industry day: SERA + ACE, a 60-day ATO target. Automated A&A is not your pitch, it is their stated plan. VA Industry Day🎯
Strategy
Go/No-Go · capture memory · teaming›Capture memory — 5 months carried in
Nothing resets · MARKET SIGNAL
VA OIS ATO-expiration backlog flagged — 150+ days before this RFQ existed. USASpending
MAR 18 · SOURCES SOUGHT
Drafted your response from the library — submitted in 2 days. SS response
MAY 6 · MARKET RESEARCH
VA A&A eval patterns ingested → §M.4 is the swing factor → your win themes. Win themes
· RFQ DROPPED
Quote pre-loaded with all of the above + 31-req matrix; Amendment 002 diffed .
Go / No-Go
GO · P-win 35%Technical fit
8.4
Past performance
6.2
Competition
5.5
Price-to-win
8.0
Teaming — fills §M.4 surge bench
Surge depthAC
Apex Cyber Solutions
SDVOSB · 8 cleared analysts · similarly-situated
Compliance matrix — extracted live
0 of 31 requirements shown · 5 open
Shredded Section L (instructions) · Section M (evaluation) · PWS/SOW · 3 attachments → 31 requirements shredded, 26 green, 5 open — §M.4 is the one that matters. Click any page-cite to jump to the exact "shall" sentence in the source PDF.
LCATs auto-extracted from Section L
source-cited| Labor category | Est. hrs | Your rate | Source |
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| Security Control Assessor (RMF) | 6,200 | $148 | §L p.11 |
| ISSO / eMASS Analyst | 12,400 | $132 | §L p.11 |
| Cyber Engineer (A&A) | 8,300 | $145 | §L p.12 |
| Program Manager | 3,100 | $158 | §L p.12 |
Fully-burdened rates & 5-yr escalation recalc as you adjust the mix.
Price-to-Win band
GSA CALC + USASpendingYour blended bid vs. the incumbent run-rate at VA:
$118 · too low$165 · uncompetitive
Lean mixSenior-heavy mix
✓ In the win-band — $4.62M, ~6% under the incumbent run-rate and inside our $5.0M self-imposed size-class line.
Incumbent blended est. $145/hr (Veritas). Every figure traces to its source award.
Amendment acknowledgment audit
All acknowledged✓
Amendment 001 — Q&A responses (18 questions)
acknowledged✓
Amendment 002 — page limit 25→30, new §L.3.2(e)
acknowledgedMissed amendment acknowledgments are the most preventable disqualifier there is — GAO sustains protests on nothing else. Watch the hero ring react.
⚠ Amendment 002 — what actually changed
Technical volume raised 25 → 30 pages (outline auto-rebalanced)
New requirement L.3.2(e): quantified risk register — affects your §3.2
The rest of the solicitation is unchanged. Meridian diffed it so you don't re-read.
Outline · auto-built
1. Executive Summary 100%
2. Understanding 94%
3.2 Risk Mitigation 78%
3.3 Staffing & Surge 31%
4. Management 67%
5. Past Performance 88%
6. Price Volume —
3.2 Risk Mitigation Approach
Click any section in the outline to switch. Toggle Company voice or Capture strategy off — the draft falls back to generic; on, it sharpens with your win themes and real cited contracts.
84%
26 / 31
requirements covered · live
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Evaluator preview
›Modeled on 1,400 parsed debriefs + this agency's scoring history.
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Suggested past performance
›T4NG cyber sub · surge 2→5 (PP anchor)Insert →
DHS help desk · zero-gap transition (PPQ)Insert →
Harvested automatically from your delivered contracts in Contract Cloud.
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Knowledge Library
88 docs · ask anything›| 📄 Past performance | 4 |
| 📐 Reusable solution boilerplate | 22 |
| 👤 Key-personnel résumés | 9 |
| 🏆 Win themes & discriminators | 12 |
| 📋 Policy & reference docs | 41 |
RAG over your secure docs · every answer cited · never trains a model.
Pipeline
6 open pursuits · real shots first. B&P goes where it wins.
Network-backed
Aspirational
Timeline
WATCHING · 3
SAM.GOV · SS ⚡ Pre-RFQ
NAVFAC CECS shore cyber (P6)
Fit 82
MB
SIGNAL · FPDS
Army ACC A&A re-bid — next cycle (lost L1)
Fit 44
RM
eBUY · GSA MAS aspirational
GSA assessment order — recompete watch
Fit 60
CAPTURE · 5
SAM.GOV · VA TAC REAL
VA HACS SDVOSB — Cyber Architecture & Engineering (P2) · 36C10B26Q0654
Solicitation ~ ·
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SIGNAL · USASPENDING ⚡ Takeaway
Treasury/IRS Patch & Vuln Mgmt (P5)
P-win 20%
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SUB · GSM-O II
DISA endpoint triage sub under Leidos (P3)
TA · 40%
JC
SIGNAL · FPDS
VA test-env support — re-bid (lost L2)
✦ §M.4 loop
DG
SBIR · DSIP
Phase II via D2P2 customer memo — dream
up to $2.1M
DP
PROPOSAL · 2
RFQ · eBuy · HACS SIN Fit 94
VA Cybersecurity A&A / ATO Support
Draft 72% · due
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DSIP · DoW SBIR 26.BZ
Release 5 — AI-driven zero-trust evidence toolkit (P4)
Draft 40% · ~$300K ask vs $323K ceiling · opens ·
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DECIDED · 3
RFQ · 70RCSA
DHS Help Desk — DEFEND recompete
WON · $340K/yr →
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eBUY · GSA MAS
Security assessment order
WON · $184K →
SUB · T4NG
T4NG cyber subcontract
WON · $420K/yr →
Contract Cloud
Post-award execution — the half no competitor unifies with the win engine. Every delivered contract becomes proof for the next bid.
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T4NG Cyber Subcontract — legacy T4NG, ordering closed Jun 30 2026, performance continues
Task order under a T4NG prime at VA TAC · similarly-situated SDVOSB sub · $420K/yr · 2 FTEs · CMMC L2 (self-assessed)
PPQ: prime reference72% obligatedsurged 2→5 in 3 wks
CLINs & Mods
Deliverables
PPQ & Past Perf
CMMC / DFARS
CLIN / SLIN / ACRN — auto-read on award
| CLIN | Scope | Funded | Status |
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| 0001 | Cyber A&A labor (FFP) | $420K | on track |
| 0002 | Surge labor · 2→5 (T&M) | $110K | on track |
| 0003 | Tools & travel (CR) | $28K | 68% burn |
| 0004 | — awaiting mod — | $0 | — |
FAR 52.204-21DFARS 252.204-7012DFARS 252.204-7021FAR 52.219-14
Funding — Limitation of Funds watch
72% obligatedThreshold alert at 75%. Burn estimated from labor actuals; the PM is warned before you hit it.
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Drop an SF-30 modification herereconciles delta funding & scope in seconds
CDRL schedule — machine-extracted from the SOW
14 of 16 on time⏰
A001 — Monthly Status Report
Due in 6 days · 30/15/7-day alerts armed
✓
A002 — Incident Response Plan (annual)
Accepted Apr 2 · on time
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A003 — Quarterly Security Posture Brief
Accepted Mar 28 · on time
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A004 — Continuous Monitoring Report
Accepted weekly · 18 of 18
PPQ — prime reference request
14d
T4NG cyber sub — prime PPQ
Quality: strongTimeliness: on-timeSurge: 2→5 in 3 wks
PPQ pre-filled. This sub work is under the SAT — no CPARS record — so proof is the prime's PPQ. Pulled your surge record (2→5 cleared staff in 3 weeks), on-time deliverables and 0 escalations for the prime to sign — the §M.4 evidence.
Past-performance flywheel
auto-harvestedEvery accepted deliverable + PPQ becomes reusable proof — instantly available to the next proposal.
T4NG cyber sub · surge 2→5PPQ ready
DHS help desk · zero-gap transitionPPQ ready
VA desktop & end-user supportPPQ ready
This T4NG surge PPQ is already suggested on your VA A&A proposal in Studio. See in Studio →
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FAR Overhaul: 7 clauses auto-updated from acquisition.gov this week — Meridian re-checked all 5 held contracts. Review changes
CMMC L2 asset scope · 32 CFR §170.19
Drop your asset inventory — Meridian classifies each asset into the five CMMC categories, flags scope gaps, and exports a C3PAO-ready scoping package whenever you choose to book the assessment — Phase 2 is suspended, so this is readiness, not a deadline. Nothing leaves your boundary.
| Asset category (§170.19) | Assets | Status |
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| CUI Assets — process / store / transmit CUI | 12 | in scope · all controls |
| Security Protection Assets — SIEM, MFA, jump box | 6 | in scope |
| Contractor Risk Managed Assets | 8 | 2 missing SSP entry |
| Specialized Assets — GFE, OT/IoT, test equip | 3 | documented + risk plan |
| Out-of-Scope Assets | 24 | isolated · excluded |
CMMC L2 / NIST 800-171 posture
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SPRS score 88 / 110 · self-assessed L2 · Phase 1 obligation met · C3PAO queued (Phase 2 suspended Jul 13, 2026)
AC-17 Remote Access — config driftchanged 2 days ago → POA&M auto-created
Open POA&M items remediating toward 110continuous monitoring · last scan 4h ago · Phase 1 posture, no forced date
Flow-down matrix · your VA A&A prime bid
auto-propagated| Subcontractor | 7012 | 7021 | 219-9 |
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| Apex Cyber (SDVOSB · similarly-situated) | ✓ | added ⟳ | ✓ |
Your one similarly-situated sub, Apex Cyber, was missing the CMMC flow-down clause — Meridian added it automatically so a sub's lapse can't terminate your prime mid-performance.
Recompete Radar
Your own contract base + every signal upstream of it — 6–18 months before the RFP posts.
Every other tool starts when the RFP posts. Meridian starts 6–18 months earlier. Three upstream feeds become your pipeline before a competitor sees anything on SAM.gov.
FPDS expiry · 312 tracked
Agency forecasts · 1,840 buys
Sources Sought · 47 shaping
Your contracts at recompete risk
YOUR ACTIVE CONTRACTSNOW+3 mo+6 mo+9 mo+12 mo+18 mo
DHS Help Desk (BPA)
$340K/yr · recompete WON Jul 2026
Where this stands
🏆 Awarded July 2026 at $340K/yr — the DEFEND recompete you submitted , defended as the incumbent
📉 Under the $350K SAT → FAR Part 13 buy · no CPARS in play, so the PPQ is the proof
🏛️ FirstSource III did not survive its protest history — that DHS work steers toward your GSA MAS
✊ Your first real contract, now held twice · the cheapest win you will ever book
T4NG Cyber Subcontract
$420K/yr · performance continues
Why to watch
📅 Legacy T4NG ordering expired Jun 30, 2026 — performance on issued orders continues; the recompete of this work onto T4NG2 ($60.7B, protests cleared Mar 2026) is a FY27 pursuit
⭐ Your surge 2→5 kept you on the prime reference — strong standing going in
VA Desktop & End-User Support
$673K · base+1 running
GSA MAS Assessment Order
$184K · PoP ends +15 mo
GSA MAS Vuln-Scan Surge Order
$145K · won earlier this year
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Why this is the cheapest win there is
›Meridian scans budgets, CO turnover, your delivery signals and competitor protest patterns across all 5 held contracts — so a surprise loss 18 months out becomes a defended win you started shaping today. The DHS help desk is the proof: shaped from here, defended in July. USASpendingFPDSPPQ
Vehicles
Your GSA MAS + your T4NG sub seat are the buy paths. Each new order opens 80% done — because the vehicle remembers how you bid.
GSA
MAS
MAS
GSA MAS
SIN 54151S + 54151HACS · held since 2023 · oral eval passed
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eBuy RFQs this month
Next predicted RFQ — click to open it pre-loaded:
Security Assessment RFQ · ~$184K · eBuy blind
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What carries over
rates · LCAT staffing · vehicle past-perf›Approved rates, standard LCAT staffing table, vehicle past performance and the evaluation structure all persist across orders — every new eBuy RFQ inherits them with 0 minutes of setup. The HACS SIN was added via eMod after passing the mandatory oral technical evaluation. MAS Refresh 26 added the IHEM subgroup to HACS — your eMod for IHEM is submitted, which widens what can be ordered against this SIN. FirstSource III (DHS) did not survive its protest history — that work pushed toward GSA vehicles, strengthening your MAS position. Plus one more predicted RFQ this cycle:
HACS RVA order · ~$150K · this quarter
⚠ GSA OneGov is real and it has a clock: the $1 enterprise AI deals across 120+ agencies expire with no successor pricing announced. Agencies that just went AI-native will be buying AI-enabled services — on vehicles like this one.
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T4NG sub seat — and the T4NG2 recompete target
legacy ordering closed Jun 30 2026 · T4NG2 is the FY27 pursuit›T4NG
T4NG (as sub) — legacy vehicle
sub to a T4NG prime · VA TAC · ordering period closed Jun 30, 2026
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task order held · still performing
CLIN 0001 · Cyber A&A labor · ~$420K/yr CLIN 0002 · Surge labor overlay · ~$110K
One task order, two CLINs — the same order the Contract Cloud tracks. Legacy T4NG ordering expired Jun 30, 2026, so no new work rides this vehicle; issued orders keep performing to their option years. Your similarly-situated hours count toward the prime's 50% self-performance (FAR 52.219-14) — the real reason primes want you. Surge 2 → 5 cleared analysts in 3 weeks, without permanent headcount.
T4NG
2
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T4NG2 — the FY27 recompete target
VA TAC · $60.7B ceiling · ~33 primes · protests cleared Mar 30–31, 2026
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orders held — recompete target
Recompete this scope onto T4NG2 · FY27
You hold nothing on T4NG2 yet — that is the point. The Court of Federal Claims denied the last protests Mar 30–31, 2026, so the $60.7B vehicle is finally live, and the work you perform on the legacy order is what you carry into the recompete. Meridian tracks which of the ~33 primes still need similarly-situated SDVOSB capacity under FAR 52.219-14.
Win & Loss Intel
Your losses are the most expensive data you own — so Meridian learns from them.
“staffing & experience depth” cost you both of your decided losses — which is exactly why Studio flagged §M.4 on the VA A&A proposal before you submitted.
The loop, closed. Every debrief becomes training data for the next draft.
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Debriefs
2 losses analyzed · 1 recompete defended · "staffing depth" recurring›FOIA / debrief pipeline
LOSS
VA security test-environment support ($1.4M) — Dec 2025
Insufficient corporate experienceSize-class-up rejection
LOSS
Army ACC A&A task order ($735K) — Mar 2026
Staffing depth thinLost on price to a peer SDVOSB
WIN
DHS component help desk — DEFEND recompete ($340K/yr) — Jul 2026
Defended as incumbentUnder the $350K SAT · FAR Part 13Zero-gap transition record · PPQ, not CPARS
WIN
DHS component IT help desk ($312K/yr) — 2024
First real contract · under SATZero-gap transition · PPQ engine
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Pricing intelligence
LCAT rates vs. winning ranges · incumbent $145/hr›ISSO / eMASS Analyst — your rate$132 in range $124–138
Security Control Assessor — your rate$148 in range $142–154
Program Manager — your rate$158 ▲ high vs $146–156
Incumbent blended (Veritas)$145/hr — beatable
Built from USASpending awards, task-order history & SCA wage determinations — not survey data.
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Win rate
30% · 3 of 10 decided (TTM) — the DHS defense landed it›Q3 '24Meridian onboarded ↑Q3 '26