Contracts to Watch: NITAAC’s CIO-SP4

Fiscal 2019 spending hit a record $6 billion for the NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center’s (NITAAC) awards – the highest annual spending recorded to date.

NITAAC has issued a new draft RFP as a follow-on to the 10-year, $20 billion IT services governmentwide acquisition contracts CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business. The new vehicle will be called Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 4 (CIO-SP4), has a doubled ceiling of $40 billion, and will continue to be managed through NITAAC, a division of the Health and Human Services Department’s National Institutes of Health.

The target date for release of the CIO-SP4 final RFP is October 2020; it will rely on self-scoring evaluation criteria and may require certifications such as FedRamp or others.

Join Bloomberg Government expert analysts as they provide insight into:

• Historical contract obligations by agency and contract holder on CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business
• Status of CIO-SP4
• Differences between CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP4
• Other information that will help contractors prepare for the recompete