“This is a chance for the agencies to take a look and see where there might be gaps in what they were rolling out and look to expand their EIS solicitations," says one FAS official.

Also: NewPay receiving $20 million would be nice, but only if other agencies have the resources to share the service, says the initiative's director.

The new office will establish service contracts agencies can buy technology and services off of and be staffed by 40 to 50 federal employees across four divisions.

Also: an update on the transition to the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.

OTAs are the cool new authority in procurement circles, but acquisition officials say they run the risk of being dramatically overused.

As Congress debates whether to fund the TMF in 2019, its board members are already weighing new IT modernization projects.