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 [...]
Lots of Questions Remain on CIO-SP4 — We Have Some Answers
National Institutes of Health Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) released the long anticipated final Request for Proposal for Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4) on Tuesday, May 25. Proposals are currently due on June 28 at Noon. G2Xchange will be hosting a 2-day webinar with Red Team Consulting on June 2 and 3 to [...]
7 Tips to Build a Killer Proposal Schedule
As we all know, proposal success hinges on planning the work carefully, then executing that plan. While some interim deadlines may need to slip around a bit, the proposal due date and time is immovable, so a thoughtfully designed proposal schedule creates the conditions for success. Below are the key principles to follow when [...]
