“Eight bid protests filed with the Government Accountability Office over the National Institutes of Health’s $50 billion CIO-SP4 healthcare IT contract vehicle have yet to be resolved.
According to sources, the complaints focus largely on a points-based evaluation system used to assess contractors bidding on the contract as part of a mentor-protégé system run by the Small Business Administration (SBA) that may make it hard for some smaller contractors to earn a spot on the vehicle…”
“Amendments made to the solicitation since May have come under scrutiny because of concerns that changes to the contract’s points-based evaluation system may preclude some smaller companies from using the track record of mentor companies to prove their eligibility for consideration as vendors…”
“Since the start of the solicitation process in May, the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) has issued 11 amendments to the procurement contract, which sources described as unprecedented…” Read the full article here.
Source: Eight bid protests over CIO-SP4 solicitation yet to be resolved – By John Hewitt Jones, September 8, 2021. FedScoop.
