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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
3 Contracts to Watch in Q4 of 2020
We are tracking three government contracts expected to drop in Q4 of 2020: Cyber Information Technology Services, Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Technical Support Services (NERP), and Chief Information Officer [...]
