Chief Information Officer Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS)

Added: Jun 24, 2014 5:09 pm The purpose of this amendment is to correct a response to one of the questions provided in the "Partial Response to Questions and Comments" under Amendment 00002.

The response to question sequence 19 under Section J.4 - Technical Workbook, reference Category 7 - Group A, the response to the question, "Does this imply that the total Production Data Storage Block Capacity of 1 TB is comprised of 20 blocks?" is changed to read "No."

No other changes are made to the terms and conditions of the solicitation as a result of this Amendment. The due date for receipt of proposals remains at 1:00:00 PM EST, June 30, 2014.

Added: Jun 20, 2014 12:36 pm The purpose of this amendment is to issue version 6 of Attachment J.4, Technical Compliance Workbook. This version unlocked several of the spreadsheet cells that were inadvertently locked in the previous version. Other than unlocking the cells, there are no further revisions made to the Workbook or to the solicitation. The due date for receipt of proposals remains at 1:00:00 PM EST on June 30, 2014.

Added: Jun 19, 2014 12:38 pm The purpose of this amendment is to provide further clarification to the CIO-CS solicitation and to extend the proposal due date from 1:00 pm, EST on June 27, 2014 to 1:00 pm, EST on June 30, 2014.

Added: Jun 13, 2014 3:47 pm The purpose of this amendment is to provide further clarification to the CIO-CS solicitation.

Added: Jun 06, 2014 5:12 pm The purpose of this amendment is to:

1.  Provide responses to the remaining questions and comments. (see Complete Responses to Questions and Comments attached)

2. Amend the solicitation in response to the questions and comments.  As a result, the following solicitation documents are incorporated into this amendment which supersede previous versions as applicable:

a. The revised Request for Proposal that highlights the major revisions made to the RFP.
b. Conformed Request for Proposal that reflect amendments to date.
c. Revised Attachment J.1, CIO-CS Pricing Workbook, version 3
d. Revised Attachment J.4, CIO-CS Technical Compliance Workbook, version 3
e. New Attachment J.7, List of Authorized OEM Certifications
f. Revised Attachment J.8, Products List, version 3

The due date for receipt of proposals remains unchanged at 1:00:00 pm, EST on June 27, 2014.

Added: Jun 02, 2014 4:21 pm The purpose of this amendment is to:

1. Provide partial responses to questions and comments received.
2. Provide a revised conformed Request for Proposal (RFP) primarily in response to the questions and comments.
3. Provide a copy of the Request for Proposal that highlights the major revisions changes made to the RFP.
4. Provide a copy of revised Pricing workbook (Attachment J.1), Technical workbook (Attachment J.4) and Products List (Attachment J.8).
5. Extend the due date for proposal receipt from 1:00:00 pm, EST on June 11, 2014 to 1:00:00 pm, EST on June 27, 2014.

Please note that a subsequent amendment will be issued shortly with responses to the remainder of the questions and comments.

Added: May 30, 2014 5:58 pm On June 2, 2014, the Government intends to release an amended solicitation, responses to questions, and extend the proposal due date.

Added: May 07, 2014 9:58 am The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites responsible offerors to participate in the Chief Information Officer - Commodities and Solutions (CIO-CS) Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). This GWAC is intended to support 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. This GWAC is the successor contract to NIH's current Electronic Commodities Store (ECS) III that is expiring 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.

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement provides the only solicitation, solicitation NIHJT2014002, which is being issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP).

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes for this acquisition are 334111 and 541519 and the small business size standards are 1000 employees (for 334111) and 150 employees (for 541519). For NAICS 334111, the small business size standard for a concern which submits an offer in its own name, other than on a construction or service contract, but which proposes to furnish a product which it did not itself manufacture, is 500 employees.

Interested offerors are required to submit their questions and proposals electronically via the Source.SelectTM tool, a secure web-based portal in the format specified in the solicitation. The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for this site is https://ciocs.source-select.com/default.

Offerors must be registered users in the Source.SelectTM tool in order to submit questions or proposals. In order to register in the Source.SelectTM tool, offerors will be required to provide their 9-digit Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number. Offerors will not be able to register in Source.SelectTM tool without a DUNS number. Directions for navigating the Source.SelectTM tool are described in the solicitation in Section L.2 Instructions for Proposal Submission. Offerors are strongly advised to allow sufficient time to become familiar with the tool, with the procedures for registering and submitting their proposal and to allow enough time to submit their proposal via the Source.SelectTM tool by the due date/time. Offerors are also advised to register within the Source.SelectTM tool prior to the solicitation Q&A due date.

Award of any contract resulting from this solicitation is contingent upon the NIH obtaining Executive Agent designation from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for this GWAC pursuant to Section 5112(e) of the Clinger-Cohen Act, 40 U.S.C. Sec. 11302(e). The NIH has submitted to OMB a Business Case Analysis for this GWAC, posted the Business Case Analysis on the OMB MAX Federal Community website, and is working with OMB to obtain the required executive agent designation for this GWAC.
The CIO-CS Contracting Officer is the sole point of contact for this procurement. Offerors shall address questions or concerns to the contracting officer through the Source.SelectTM tool. No requests for meetings regarding this announcement will be entertained.

It is the responsibility of the offerors to check the website periodically for any amendments/notices to this presolicitation notice.