A-Frame Solutions at NCMA World Congress 2026: What We Heard in Orlando

We are back from Orlando, and thank you to everyone who stopped by Booth 327. Across four days on the floor, the same theme surfaced in conversation after conversation: the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul is here, agencies are adopting deviations on their own timelines, and teams are being asked to keep pace with fewer people than ever.

We understand that pressure, because we lived it. A-Frame Solutions was founded by former federal Contracting Officers, and it is exactly why we build the tools we do.

The tool we demoed most is free to use right now: ArcClause builds the full provision and clause matrix for your solicitation, with the prescribing citation behind every row, aware of both the legacy FAR and the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul deviations your agency has adopted. No login, no cost. Try ArcClause. And if we met at NCMA, the code NCMA2026 unlocks unlimited access to all of our free tools through September 30 at aframesolutions.com/free-tools.

ORLANDO, FL – July 2026 – A-Frame Solutions exhibited and presented at the NCMA World Congress 2026, the National Contract Management Association's flagship gathering of federal acquisition and contract management professionals, held July 26–29 in Orlando. The company, founded by former federal Contracting Officers, was at Booth 327 for the full conference.

Federal contracts keep getting larger and more complex, while many acquisition teams still manage performance in spreadsheets that go stale the moment they're saved — deliverables, option deadlines, milestones, and approvals scattered across email and memory. That gap is what A-Frame builds against, and it's the throughline of the company's presence at World Congress.

At the booth: ArcTracker for federal acquisition teams

At Booth 327, A-Frame demonstrated ArcTracker, the part of the ArcSuite AI platform that gives federal program and acquisition offices one place to track contract performance, milestones, deliverables, and approvals across an entire portfolio, replacing the patchwork of spreadsheets and inbox threads most teams rely on today. Attendees saw a live walkthrough and talked through their own tracking challenges directly with the former COs who built it.

On stage: lessons from large-scale federal procurements

A-Frame has supported NIH/NITAAC's Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) since 2021 — direct, current experience with exactly the kind of large, multi-award vehicles this session examines. On the final morning of the conference, A-Frame CEO David Zhang joined two senior federal acquisition leaders for a session drawing practical lessons from one of the decade's most-watched procurements:

Rather than dwelling on what went wrong when the CIO-SP4 GWAC was cancelled, the panel focuses on what acquisition professionals can do differently on the next large-scale, multi-award vehicle. Key themes include:

• Why the solicitation question-and-answer period carries more weight than teams typically give it
• The case for early industry engagement on massive requirements
• Planning for prolonged protest and documenting every procurement and evaluation decision
• Designing evaluation criteria that are both ambitious and executable

Did not catch us in Orlando?

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