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What’s Going On With the FY 2022 Federal Budget?

This post was updated on December 6, 2021 to provide the latest context on the hectic congressional situation, including appropriations, debt ceiling, BBB Act, and the 2022 NDAA. [...]

Tris Carpenter2022-01-14T09:50:46-05:00August 12th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: featured, federal budget, slider, Tris Carpenter|

CIO-SP4 Amendment 9: Deep Thoughts and Practical Tips

So here we are—Amendment 9 for CIO-SP4 and the updated proposal submission date of August 20th. Before I state the obvious regarding the dramatic twists and turns on this [...]

Jeff Shen2021-08-04T18:25:39-04:00August 4th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, slider|

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 [...]

Jenny Frazier2021-07-20T13:43:03-04:00July 20th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, slider|

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 [...]

Jeff Shen2021-07-14T19:46:22-04:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, Jeff Shen, slider|

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 [...]

Jenny Frazier2021-07-13T10:12:49-04:00July 13th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, slider|

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 [...]

Joe Salgado2021-09-15T14:09:33-04:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, Joe Salgado|

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 [...]

Joe Salgado2021-10-06T08:43:39-04:00June 14th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, Joe Salgado, slider|

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 [...]

Joe Salgado2021-09-15T14:24:30-04:00June 9th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, Joe Salgado|

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 [...]

Joe Salgado2021-09-15T14:24:43-04:00May 27th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, Joe Salgado, slider|

CIO-SP4: Latest Updates and Evidence Gathering Recommendations

NITAAC has announced a delay in the release of the CIO-SP4 Best-In-Class GWAC contract. This is the 4th generation of a contract that is 10 years in scope, covers [...]

Joe Salgado2021-09-15T14:25:42-04:00February 25th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4, Joe Salgado, slider|