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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 [...]

By Jeff Shen|2021-07-14T19:46:22-04:00July 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 [...]

By Red Team Expert|2023-03-23T10:40:53-04:00July 13th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CIO-SP4|

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 [...]

By Joe Salgado|2021-09-15T14:09:33-04:00July 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 [...]

By Joe Salgado|2021-10-06T08:43:39-04:00June 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 [...]

By Joe Salgado|2021-09-15T14:24:30-04:00June 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 [...]

By Joe Salgado|2021-09-15T14:24:43-04:00May 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 [...]

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

CMS DASH: A Quick Look on How to Approach this BPA

On February 19th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the solicitation for Data Analytics Supporting Healthcare (DASH) via GSA E-Buy, a Small Business multiple award BPA [...]

By Tris Carpenter|2021-02-24T11:07:52-05:00February 24th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: CMS DASH, slider, Tris Carpenter|

Top Federal Civilian Opportunities to Pursue in 2021

Last week, we joined forces with G2Xchange and Mile Marker 10 to present our findings on the key Federal Civilian opportunities that should be in your 2021 pipeline. In [...]

By Jenny Frazier|2021-02-23T11:26:35-05:00February 23rd, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: federal civilian, slider|

6 Things You Need to Know About GSA Polaris

The highly anticipated GSA Polaris GWAC Draft RFP was released on December 31st, 2020. Intended as the next generation Small Business GWAC, this contract includes several updates meant to [...]

By Jenny Frazier|2021-01-13T10:15:15-05:00January 12th, 2021|Categories: Federal Contracting, Government Contracts|Tags: GSA Polaris, Jenny Frazier, slider|