The Coast Guard's MHS GENESIS electronic health records deployment is complete — and the $9.5M small business set-aside managing its PMO is expiring September 29, 2026 with no recompete solicitation posted anywhere. 70Z02322F93330002, held by Ellumen, Inc. under the CIO-SP3 Small Business vehicle, is one of two Ellumen USCG contracts expiring the same week, totaling $15.8M. But the structural story isn't the double expiration. It's this: Ellumen has publicly indicated it no longer qualifies as a small business under NAICS 541512. If the recompete posts as a small business set-aside; and it was a small business set-aside when Ellumen won it; the incumbent cannot compete for its own contract. The window isn't just open. It may be undefended.
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The standard read on this contract is that an IT PMO incumbent with four years of MHS GENESIS familiarity is well-positioned to renew. That's wrong. The FY2026 budget executes a $115.9M cut to the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program — stripping deployment, equipment replacement, and initial training funding in a single line. The system is 100% fielded. The agency isn't buying deployment anymore. It's buying sustainment. The contractor who wins in September 2026 needs to be built for the phase the system is actually in, not the phase that ended in March 2024.
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