G2X TAKE: Beating out 11 other bidders, Nava, a small business consultancy formed by leaders brought in to fix Healthcare.gov, just picked up this 5-year contract to provide Cloud IT Operations and Maintenance Support to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. This task was competed full and open using GSA IT-70.   Take Bytes   Led by Co-founder and CEO, Rohan Bhobe; COO and Co-founder Sha Hwang; and Co-Founder Kalvin Wang, NAVA is by no means a new face at CMS as they have worked across Federal and state agencies, on Medicare and Medicaid programs. Formed by leaders who were brought in to fix Healthcare.gov, Nava has supported efforts such as helping to establish the architecture for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and they were one of the firms recently selected as a Prime awardee on the highly coveted multiple-award Medicare Payment System Modernization (MPSM) BPA. Nava is one of the members of the Digital Services Coalition, which bands together several VA, USDS and CMS Digital Services firms. More Here.   Included here is a recent white paper Nava published on Cloud Infrastructure in the Federal Government.