Doing Business Under Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partner 2
(CIO-SP2)

CIO-SP2 is a Government Wide Agency Contract (GWAC) issued by the National Institutes of Health. It is one of only four such contract vehicles issued as Federal Agency with Executive Agency status. The other three are GSA Schedule, NASA, and Department of Transportation.

Contract Number: 263-01-D-0087
Flexible Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ)
Available to all federal agencies, including DoD
Contract Types: T&M, FFP, CPFF, CPAF, and CS
Contract Period: Through 12/20/10
Contract Ceiling: $19.5B

National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC)

NITAAC provides services that can be performed more advantageously as central services to meet the requirements of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
and other federal government agencies.

Additional Information:

NITAAC

How to Place an Order

Customer Forms

CIO-SP2 Task Order Number

Submitting Supporting Documentation

Team Member Organizations:

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CIO-SP2 - Placing an Order

1. Customer determines requirements and completes a Task Order Requirements Package (TORP).
2. Customer submits TORP to the CIO-SP2 Contracting Officer.
3. CIO-SP2 Contracting Officer assigns a Task Order Tracking Number to each package.
4. CIO-SP2 Contracting Officer announces each Task Order Requirement via e-mail to all CIO-SP2 Prime Contractors who have received an award in the Task Area outlined in the TORP.
5. Prime Contractors determine bid or no bid on each e-mail announcement. The NITAAC announcement contains information to help Prime Contractors quickly evaluate the opportunity and respond in an accelerated time frame.
6. Prime Contractors submit their Task Order Proposals.
7. Customer reviews the proposals and selects the prime contractor based on a best-value analysis.
8. Customer documents and reports their selection to NITAAC.
9. NITAAC issues an approval letter to the prime contractor and to the customer. This approval letter authorizes the customer to issue a funding document to the Prime Contractor.
10. Customer provides Prime Contractor with appropriate funding/Task Order documents. Copy also is provided to NITAAC.
11. Prime Contractor initiates Task.
12. Customer provides Past Performance Evaluation at Task upon completion.

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Required Customer Forms

To place a Task Order, the customer is required
to submit a TORP to NIH, which includes:

• Transmittal Form
• Statement of Work
• Independent Government Cost Estimates

Upon review of the Contractor's Task Order Proposal, the customer then selects an awardee and completes the Solution Recommendation Document Package (SRDP). After the work has been completed, the COTR completes a Past Performance Evaluation.

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CIO-SP2 Work Task Orders

The CIO-SP2 contract provides information technology hardware, software, systems, and services in support of IT solutions within nine primary task areas.

1. Chief Information Officer Support
2. Outsourcing
3. IT Operations and Maintenance
4. Integration Services
5. Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Assurance
6. Digital Government
7. Enterprise Resource Planning
8. Clinical Support, Research, and Studies
9. Software Development

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Submitting Supporting Documentation

NITAAC prefers delivery for all correspondence through the following:

1. E-mail: nihciosp@odepsm2od.nih.gov
2. Fax: 301-496-8486
3. Express and Regular Mail:

   National institutes of Health
   Office of Procurement Management
   NITAAC/CIO-SP2 Contract Team
   6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 625
   Rockvill, MD 20892

Preferred Software (in order of preference)

1. Microsoft Word
2. Word Perfect
3. ASCII

Spreadsheets

1. Microsoft Excel
2. Lotus 123

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