Winning a government-wide acquisition contract (GWAC) sets agencies and their contractors up for long-term success by giving them an easy and cost-effective method to compete with their requirements and contractors’… Continue reading Victory Against the Odds: GWAC Survival Tactics

The popularity of self-scoring proposals demands a new level of preparedness from bid and proposal professionals. This adaptive method, where contractors evaluate their qualifications against criteria and substantiate their capabilities… Continue reading Increase Your Preparedness for Self-Scoring Proposals

Preliminary notification of an award The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) announced they’re providing preliminary notifications of apparent successful offerors for CIO-SP4 on… Continue reading CIO-SP4 Next Steps

Jason Miller, Executive Editor at Federal News Network, reached out to me about what went wrong with the CIO-SP4 procurement. I told him NIH should stop trying to restrict the number… Continue reading CIO-SP4 sets a record for protests!

The General Services Administration (GSA) issued the final Multiple Award Contract (MAC) RFPs for the Polaris women-owned Small Business (WOSB) and Small Business (SB) pools on March 25. This much… Continue reading Polaris Pre-Award Protest: The New Normal for MACs?

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC)’s highly anticipated Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partners 4 (CIO-SP4) RFP, released June 25, has already seen… Continue reading Does the latest CIO-SP4 amendments create inequities?