“National Institutes of Health Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) released the long anticipated final Request for Proposal for Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4) on Tuesday, May 25th. Proposals are currently due on June 28th at noon. G2Xchange will be hosting a 2-day webinar with Red Team Consulting on June 2 and 3 to do a deep dive on the RFP and all of its intricacies, but a deadline for questions looms on June 1.”
“We’ve asked Jeff Shen and Joe Salgado from Red Team Consulting to provide us with their thoughts on some of the questions they are getting to clarify some important areas of the Final RFP. Please note that these comments are specifically designed to clear up the initial confusion and are only Jeff’s and Joe’s current interpretation of the Final RFP in its current state. Until NITAAC clarifies their requirements through Q&A, they recommend using this feedback as preliminary guidance.”
Teaming
“In Section L.5 each of the scoring elements related to experience includes the following statement:
‘The examples may come from affiliates or members of an offeror’s CTA/JV provided the examples establish a clear relationship between the offeror, their affiliates/CTA/JV members, the project, and resources that were expended by each in accomplishing the project.'”
“In the 24 hours since RFP release, this statement has been a focus of industry trying to decipher the true meaning of each word in this sentence. For example, how do offerors “prove” that there is a clear relationship between the parties and how do the updated small business regulations impact this provision?”
“Red Team believes that Offerors will “prove” that there is a clear relationship through contract documentation to include signed teaming agreements and even the contract and SOW that was associated with the contract. The Government has only included examples of documentation that may be submitted in the Final RFP. They have not disallowed any types of documentation, to date. We assume this will be further clarified in upcoming Q&A…” Read the full article here.
Source: Lots of Questions Remain on CIO-SP4 — We Have Some Answers – May 27, 2021. Red Team Consulting.
