The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) http://nitaac.nih.gov has awarded its newest Government-Wide Acquisition Contract for information technology referred to as GWAC (CIO-CS).
NITAAC housed within HHS is authorized by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to administer three Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWAC) for information technology procurement. The three GWACs CIO-SP3, CIO SP3 Small Business, and CIO-CS can be used by any federal civilian or DOD agency to acquire IT products, services, and solutions.
The GWAC (CIO-CS) offers IT commodity-enabling and shared solutions both on-site and in the cloud. This includes services such as deployment and installation, maintenance and training, engineering studies, enterprise licenses and extended warranties, everything-as-a-service, mobility, collaboration, web and video-conferencing, cyber security, big data, virtualization and health, and biomedical IT.
Of the 65 companies awarded a CIO-CS contract, 44 are small businesses across multiple socioeconomic categories. All awardees went through a competitive source selection process to ensure the most technically capable and competitively priced solutions will be available over the next ten years.
Go to https://nitaac.nih.gov/nitaac/node/10400/nitaac/contracts/cio-cs/contract-holders for the list of the 65 awardees. For more information, call 1-888-773-6842 or email NITAACsupport@nih.gov.