NIH Wide Business and Professional Support Services

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (OLAO), established a Master IDIQ on September 15, 2015 for business and professional support services across 27 NIH institutes and 18,000 employees; ordering closed on March 14, 2019 and the vehicle is no longer active. This is an unrestricted, multiple-award IDIQ with a shared ceiling of $30.75 million. The NIH Wide Business and Professional Support Services II, awarded January 15, 2019, succeeded this vehicle.

The vehicle contracted financial analysis, business solutions, lifecycle support, business process improvement, organizational assessment, communication and outreach, program planning and management, supply chain management, asset management, policy development, and system integration services. Scope reflects actual task orders: digital communications support, research portfolio management, organizational assessments and restructuring within CDC and NIH institutes, training programs, business process improvement, internal audit support, and administrative consulting across NIH centers and CDC divisions.

Guidehouse LLP dominates the vehicle with 40 of 51 task orders totaling $84.2 million in combined potential value; Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. holds the remaining 11 orders worth $21.8 million combined potential value. These two primes account for 100 percent of awarded task orders. The National Institutes of Health, Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations placed 36 orders ($67.7 million combined potential value), representing 71 percent of ordering activity; the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Library of Medicine, and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute split the remaining 15 orders. All 51 task orders carry no set-aside designation.

The vehicle obligated $102 million against combined potential value of $106 million (96 percent obligated). Peak ordering occurred in 2018 with 19 awards; activity slowed to 4 orders in 2019 as ordering closed. Task order values ranged from approximately $40,000 to $29.5 million in potential value, with pricing structures split between firm fixed price, time and materials, and labor hours. A single mega-order to Guidehouse—HHSN263201500037I-HHSN26300006 for program operations and evaluation support to NCEH/ATSDR—carried $29.5 million in potential value.

The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Acquisition and Logistics Management (OALM), Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations (OLAO) has awarded a Master IDIQ for business and professional support services. Services include a wide range of support services such as supply chain management which includes analysis, marketing and other services as required, in support of supply, property and transportation services. In addition, contractors provide financial analysis, business solutions, lifecycle support, business process improvement and organizational assessment support, communication, outreach and training support, program planning and management services, supply chain management support, asset management products and services, policy development, implementation, and administration services, and system integration services for all 27 ICs and 18,000 NIH employees.