Chief Information Officer Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS)

The National Institutes of Health awarded the Chief Information Officer Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS) Master GWAC on May 1, 2015 with a shared ceiling of $20 billion, but the vehicle is no longer active for new orders—the last date to place orders was April 30, 2025, making this vehicle closed to new procurement as of today. CIO-CS succeeded NIH's Electronic Commodities Store (ECS) III and was designed to support federal IT needs with particular emphasis on health and biomedical-related IT across HHS and other civilian agencies engaged in clinical and biological research.

The vehicle generated substantial activity over its 10-year lifecycle: 10,000 total task orders, with combined potential value across all awards reaching $6.49 billion and $5.22 billion obligated (80% of potential). Annual order volume declined sharply in recent years—from 1,502 orders in 2022 to 291 in 2026—reflecting the vehicle's transition toward closure. The most recent task order award occurred on October 1, 2026, two months ago, confirming orders continued through the cutoff date.

Competition among prime contractors is fragmented across 74 distinct awardees. New TECH Solutions, Inc. leads by order count with 2,101 orders ($603.6 million combined potential value), followed by Sterling Computers Corporation (2,035 orders, $235.4 million) and IT1 Source LLC (1,495 orders, $100.8 million). By potential value, however, CDW Government LLC tops the field ($758.1 million across 679 orders), ahead of Four Points Technology ($662.4 million, 1,065 orders) and New TECH Solutions ($603.6 million). The top five primes by potential value hold 42% of combined value, indicating a moderately concentrated market.

Customer concentration is pronounced: NIH institutes account for roughly 67% of all task orders by value, with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (1,539 orders, $367.2 million), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1,395 orders, $215.8 million), and the National Library of Medicine (1,386 orders, $525.5 million) dominating. The vehicle serves 303 distinct customer agencies, but NIH's component institutes are the overwhelming users.

The set-aside mix is heavily weighted to unrestricted awards—over 70% of orders carry no set-aside designation. Small business set-asides account for about 26% of orders, with the remainder distributed across Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (2%), HUBZone (1%), Competitive 8(a) (1%), and smaller allocations across woman-owned and economically disadvantaged categories.

Task orders span enterprise software licenses, hardware procurement, and biomedical research IT tools. Recent orders include annual license renewals for tools such as Atlassian and GitLab, server and storage infrastructure from Dell and HP, data backup and analytics platforms, network hardware, and specialized biomedical software such as DNASTAR LASERGENE and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. Most recent individual orders range from under $30,000 to over $3 million; firm fixed-price deliverables with one- to two-year periods of performance are standard. A few larger multi-year awards, such as HHSN316201500040W-75N98026F00051 (NIH CIT POSIT Software Licenses at $3.24 million ceiling over two years, obligated at $1.54 million), carry option periods extending to 2028.

The Chief Information Officer Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS) GWAC supports the full range of IT needs across the federal government with a particular emphasis on agencies like NIH and its parent, HHS, that are involved in health care and clinical and biological research. CIO-CS is the successor contract to NIH's current Electronic Commodities Store (ECS) III that expired in November 2014. CIO-CS will continue to support government IT efforts with a focus on health and biomedical-related IT in support of federal agencies' health missions.