Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners, Small Business (Restricted) (CIO-SP3 SB)

The purpose of this amendment is to clarify the instructions relative to completing the Past Performance Reference sheets (Attachment J.3) via the on-line form available in AcquTrak.

The purpose of Amendment 00002 is as follows:

1.  To provide reponses to questions and comments.

2.  To provide a revised Request For Proposal (RFP).

3.  To provide a copy of the RFP that shows the changes made to the RFP as compared to the original document.

4.  To extend the due date for proposal receipt to 5:00 PM EST, January 28, 2011.

The purpose of Amendment 00001 is to correct the website under paragraph L.2.7, which will allow questions to be submitted properly.  See attached SF 30 (Amendment 00001).  

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) invites all responsible offerors to submit offers to be considered for the Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) Small Business (Restricted) Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC).



Interested offerors are required to submit their proposals electronically via AcquTrak, a secure web-based portal in the format specified in the solicitation. The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for this site is https://acqutrak.noblis.org/cio-sp3SBProposals.



Offerors must be registered users in AcquTrak in order to submit proposals or questions. In order to register in AcquTrak, offerors will be required to provide their Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number. Without the DUNS number, an offeror will not be able to register. Directions for navigating this website are contained in a User Guide located at the Help Support link on the Navigator button. Technical issues with the site and/or with proposal submission should be addressed to the Help Desk link located within the site. Offerors who previously registered in AcquTrak for the CIO-SP3 (Unrestricted) solicitation must re-register in AcquTrak for CIO-SP3 Small Business (Restricted).



Offerors are advised to allow enough time for submitting their proposals via this website, and to allow sufficient time to become familiar with the site and with the procedures for submitting their proposal. As such, no new registrations will be accepted in AcquTrak after 5:00pm, EST, January 13, 2011. If a prospective offeror does not register before that time, the offeror will not be able to submit a proposal. However, proposals will not be accepted in AcquTrak until the end date for submitting questions, which is 5:00 pm, EST, November 12, 2010.



The CIO-SP3 Small Business (Restricted) Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) is the sole point of contact for this procurement. As stated above, offerors shall address questions or concerns to the PCO through AcquTrak at https://acqutrak.noblis.org/cio-sp3SBProposals.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been designated as an executive agent for purposes of providing Information Technology (IT) to the federal government. Under this authority, NIH intends to issue a Request for Proposal for a new Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) that will be totally set-aside for small business. This GWAC is intended to complement the Request for Proposal for an unrestricted GWAC with essentially the same scope that was issued in Federal Business Opportunities on September 17, 2010.



This GWAC will be a successor to NIH's current Chief Information Officer - Solutions and Partners 2 Innovations (CIO-SP2i) and the Image World 2 New Dimensions (IW2nd) GWACs, which are both expiring in December 2010. This GWAC will continue to support government IT efforts with a focus on health and biomedical-related IT services in support of federal agencies' health missions.



The NAICS code for this procurement is 541512, with a size standard of $25 million. This procurement will be issued as a total small business set-aside with further set-asides for Section 8(a) vendors, HUBZone vendors, and Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB). The solicitation will be made available on-line at http://www.fbo.gov on or about October 26, 2010.



The CIO-SP3 Small Business (Restricted) Contracting Officer is the sole point of contact for this procurement. 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.