Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3)

The National Institutes of Health established CIO-SP3, a master GWAC delivering IT solutions and services as defined in the Clinger-Cohen Act, with ordering authority expiring April 29, 2026; the vehicle closed to new orders over two months ago.

CIO-SP3 awarded on May 21, 2012, succeeded the Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 2 vehicle and operated for nearly 14 years. The vehicle issued 927 task orders over its lifetime. Annual ordering peaked in 2024 at 56 orders, then declined to 37 in 2025 and 15 in 2026 as the April 2026 deadline approached; a single order awarded in January 2027 may reflect processing lag. Combined task-order potential value reached $28.64 billion, with $20.08 billion obligated (70 percent), indicating substantial execution against the $20 billion shared ceiling before the vehicle closed.

The task-order portfolio spans traditional IT operations and modernization. Recent orders include financial management and accounting system support, enterprise application integration using Oracle, Okta, and SailPoint platforms, cybersecurity and risk management framework compliance, end-user support services, software asset management, data analytics, and network and communications infrastructure. Health and research IT dominate: orders fund clinical center supply chain modernization, electronic health record migration to zero-trust security postures, National Institutes of Health enterprise systems, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention digital media services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services commercial exchange platforms, and child welfare information systems.

Deloitte Consulting LLP holds the largest order count at 254 orders worth $2.99 billion combined potential value. General Dynamics Information Technology and Accenture Federal Services follow, with General Dynamics holding 102 orders for $3.08 billion and Accenture 36 orders for $3.23 billion. Booz Allen Hamilton, ICF, and Peraton round out the major players. The top five primes by order count capture 54 percent of all task orders; the top five by potential value account for 46 percent of combined value, indicating moderately broad competitive distribution across 65 distinct primes but with concentration among large integrators.

Customers concentrated heavily within HHS. The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration placed 124 orders, the CDC Pittsburgh office 81 orders, and the NIH National Library of Medicine 44 orders; together, the top three HHS buyers represent roughly one-third of all orders. The Defense Health Agency, Treasury Department, and Army also draw significant volume, signaling cross-agency adoption despite the vehicle's HHS origin.

All 927 task orders carried no set-aside designation. Pricing ranged across firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials, labor-hours, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and fixed-price level-of-effort models. Individual task-order ceilings span from under $100,000 for discrete technical work (system integration, workstation procurement, authentication services) to over $340 million for the Unified Financial Management System integration and hosting. The largest recent awards include a $810.9 million Commercial Services Federally Facilitated Exchange order, a $74.9 million program and IT services order for HHS/Administration for Children and Families, a $90.7 million child welfare data management system operations and maintenance order, and a $247.1 million agile software development contract for NIH extramural research grants management. Typical multi-year orders range from $5 million to $25 million, with durations extending two to five years.

CIO-SP3 provides information technology (IT) solutions and services as defined in FAR 2.101(b) and further clarified in the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. These IT solutions and services include, but are not limited to, health and biomedical-related IT services to meet scientific, health, administrative, operational, managerial, and information management requirements. The contract also contains general IT services partly because medical systems are increasingly integrated within a broader IT architecture, requiring a systems approach to their implementation and a sound infrastructure for their operation.