CIO-SP4 Amendment 7 Impacts and Recommendations
On Monday, July 19th at 9:00 PM EDT, NITAAC released Amendment 7 of the CIO-SP4 RFP. This amendment extends the due date for proposals to Tuesday, August 3rd at 2:00 PM and includes several changes with impacts on teaming. We’ll break down the RFP changes by how they impact each offeror type/teaming structure. But [...]
Does CIO-SP4 Amendment 6 Impact Teaming (Again)?
I want to make sure everyone reads our assessment of the latest Amendment 6 from NITAAC for NIH CIO-SP4. In addition to this summary, my colleague, Tris Carpenter, shared his interpretation of NITAAC’s update on the Mentor Protege Joint Venture (MPJV) experience now allowing two examples. As you might have seen from the recent [...]
CIO-SP4 Amendment 6 Impacts and Recommendations
It’s time again to review another amendment to the NITAAC CIO-SP4 solicitation. Amendment 6 was released late afternoon on Friday, July 9th. We’ll take a quick look at what changed and how those changes might impact companies’ bids. NITAAC has updated its Limitations on Subcontracting clause in RFP Section I.2 (52.219-14) to be consistent [...]
CIO-SP4 Amendment 5 Impacts and Recommendations
As we were preparing to go to press with this article we learned of several pre-award protests filed with the GAO on CIO-SP4. Since NITAAC is not obliged to pause the procurement or release an extension because of the protests, we recommend that companies press ahead with their CIO-SP4 proposal preparation assuming the current [...]
Embracing the Challenge of Scoresheet Documentation on CIO-SP4
The CIO-SP4 final RFP has been out for nearly three weeks and one of the questions we’ve been addressing most frequently is how to provide sufficient “documentation” to make sure the score that bidders give themselves on the self-scoring sheet holds up to government evaluation. While the RFP does not provide crystal clear guidance, [...]
What Can We Learn from Amendment 2 of CIO-SP4?
On Friday, June 4, 2021, NITAAC released Amendment 2 to the Final RFP for CIO-SP4. This amendment has implications to some of the guidance that Red Team has provided to attendees of our symposium with G2Xchange on the final RFP. To be very clear, the advice Red Team is providing is only based on [...]
