Robert Coen, Acting Program Director NITAAC – Small Business Fast Lane

1/13/2014

What is NITAAC?

NIH Information Technology Acquisition & Assessment Center (NITAAC)

• Housed within HHS/NIH

• Over 20 years experience in government-wide IT contracting

• Sole mission is to administer the NIH GWACs

NITAAC administers three GWACs for IT products, services and solutions:

NITAAC’s Contract Holders have been pre-vetted for you through a highly competitive process:

• Technical capabilities; Past performance; Price

• Small disadvantaged business (SDB) participation

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What are Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs)?

Government Wide Acquisition Contracts are:

• Task order or delivery order contracts for Information Technology

• Utilized to streamline acquisition under FAR 16.505

• Not subject to the Economy Act (FAR Subpart 17.502-2(b))

NITAAC is one of three Federal agencies designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as an Executive Agent to administer GWACs

• Pursuant to section 5112(e) of the Clinger-Cohen Act (1996)

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CIO-SP3 & CIO-SP3 Small Business GWACs

These two contract vehicles allow you to purchase any Information Technology (IT) services and solutions

Each GWAC has a $20B ceiling, a 15 year period of performance and a 10 year ordering period

Flexible pricing arrangements including: • Fixed-Price (FP), Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF), Cost-Plus- Award-Fee (CPAF), Cost-

Plus-Incentive-Fee (CPIF), Labor Hour (LH) and Time-and-Materials (T&M) • Flexibility to use “hybrid” contract types to fit the needs of unique requirements

Task orders may be awarded in 30 days or less

• Customer sets schedule based on needs and complexity of requirements

137 Labor Categories with competitively priced labor rates • Additional categories can be added at the task order level

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Scope of CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business GWACs

Everything IT! Services and Solutions Across 10 Task Areas

Identification of task area(s) is customer driven

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CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business

53 Contract Holders

• All 10 Task Areas

• No order is too small

• Average ceiling labor rates 10-15% less than comparable GWACs

92 Contract holders

• 5 Socioeconomic Categories

• Awarding Agency Receives

Small Business Credit

• Average ceiling labor rates 10-15% less than comparable GWACs

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Meet your small business goals through five set-aside categories:

CIO-SP3 Small Business

CIO-SP3

Small Business

Small Business

(92)

HUBZone

(3)

SDVOSB

(10)

8(a)

(37)

Women Owned

(26)

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ECS III

This is a commodities-based contract with fixed price delivery orders for services and products

$6 billion ceiling

42 Contract Holders • Small Businesses: 30 • Woman Owned: 8

FY13 delivery order award ranged from

$100 to $8.9 million

Quick and efficient ordering and delivery process

Ceiling prices lower than open market, and less than or equal to GSA schedules

Scope of the ECS III Contract

Everything IT! Products and related Services across six Lots

Identification of Lots is customer driven

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ECS III Benefits

Items added to the contract are driven by customer requests • Products and services offered are updated as technology

evolves

Average 3-5 responses per Request for Quote (RFQ) from eligible Contract Holders • Highly-qualified performers

• Saves you time in the review process

Requirements can be set aside for small businesses

Flexibility to do consolidated purchases and delivery orders

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Small Business Accomplishments

FY13 Top 10 Contract Holders by Dollars

CIO-SP3 CIO-SP3-SB ECS-III

1 DELOITTE CONSULTING, LLP BLUE CANOPY GROUP, LLC CDW-G

2 SRA INTERNATIONAL, INC. MEDICAL SCIENCE & COMPUTING,

LLC STERLING COMPUTERS CORP.

3 SCIENCE APPLICATIONS

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ATTAIN, LLC GOVPLACE

4 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

NET ESOLUTIONS CORPORATION GOVERNMENT ACQUISITIONS

5 DELL SERVICES FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT, INC. EDAPTIVE SYSTEMS, L.L.C. GOVCONNECTION, INC.

6 A-TEK, INC. AGILEX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. FORCE 3, INC.

7 CATAPULT HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

GROUP, LLC DIGITAL INFUZION, INC. IRON BOW TECHNOLOGIES, LLC.

8 L-3 NATIONAL SECURITY SOLUTIONS,

INC. PRIMESCAPE SOLUTIONS INC. COUNTERTRADE PRODUCTS, INC.

9 AQUILENT, INC. FUTREND TECHNOLOGY INC PANAMERICA COMPUTER, INC.

10 CREATIVE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS,

INC. ELLUMEN, INC.

INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR (Formerly Comark Govt & Education Sales)

HHS CIO-SP3 SB Task Order Awards by Dollars FY13-14

1st and 2nd Quarter FY13

• $19,634,728.45

1st and 2nd Quarter FY14

• $313,899,809.97

On schedule to surpass FY13 total dollars awarded at HHS

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NITAAC Contract Awards (through February 28, 2014)

GWAC Award/Order Count

Award/Order Value ($)

CIO-SP3 79 $2,556,915,177.81

CIO-SP3 Small Business 97 $1,374,622,472.70

Total CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business

176 $3,931,537,650.51

ECS III

Small 22,519 $1,100,755,529.28

Large 61,707 $1,113,806,735.41

Total ECS 84,226 $2,214,562,264.69

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FY14 Small Business Outreach

Start Date End Date Event Name Location

26-Mar 26-Mar HHS Speaking Engagement - Small Business Expo Houston, TX

3-Apr 3-Apr HHS OSDBU Washington, DC

16-Apr 16-Apr HHS Speaking Engagement - Small Business Expo New Orleans, LA

24-Apr 24-Apr ACT/IAC Small Business Conference Washington, DC

14-May 14-May Small Business Expo Chicago, IL

27-May 29-May OSDBU G-Force America's Research New Orleans, LA

10-Jun 13-Jun Veteran Entrepreneur Training Symposium Reno, NV

11-Jun 11-Jun Small Business Expo Long Island, NY

6-Aug 8-Aug National Veteran Small Business Conference and Expo St. Louis, MO

Sample HHS Small Business NITAAC Awards

CMS - Security Controls Assessment of Applications & Infrastructure

• Value: $239 Million on CIO-SP3 Small Business

• Provide security assessment and training support for the CMS Enterprise Information Security Group (EISG)) Perform annual FISMA Security Assessment and Authorization for CMS

systems

Perform Security Controls Assessment (SCA) prior to system accreditation or reaccreditation

CMS Data Center security support

Provide security training to users

Sample HHS Small Business NITAAC Awards (cont.)

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Software Support for Molecular Biology and Genomics Information

• Value: $94 Million on CIO-SP3 Small Business

• Provide services to the National Library of Medicine to support the design, development, programming and maintenance of NCBI software and databases.

• Geonomic data processing support

• User training and help desk support

Sample HHS Small Business NITAAC Awards (cont.)

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Service Desk and Infrastructure Technology Services

• Value: $60 Million on CIO-SP3 Small Business

• Provide secure, highly reliable, and available IT infrastructure services that meet or exceed the service levels.

• Improve service through the implementation of a standard service management/delivery framework and associated processes.

• Recommend and collaborate on an Enterprise target architecture solution to upgrade and modernize the IT infrastructure .

• Review, analyze, recommend, and take proactive measures ensuring that the NIEHS IT infrastructure establishes and follows a lifecycle to make certain that investments are aligned with the NIEHS Strategic Plan and mission objectives.

Subcontracting Opportunities

Teaming Opportunities with NITAAC

Partnership opportunities with all NITAAC Prime Contract Holders • Subcontracting agreements are not managed by NITAAC.

• Partnering is at sole discretion of prime.

Any contractor with business and/or desirable products and services can find our prime contractors and contacts on the NITAAC website. • Click the contract you’re interested

• Select “Contract Holders” from the dropdown list

• Select Contract Holder for contact information

Subcontracting Goals

HHS subcontracting plans were set at the GWAC level • NITAAC subcontracting goals

mirror HHS subcontracting goals

All NITAAC Contract Holders are required to promote the use of small disadvantaged businesses (SDV) • NITAAC supports teaming and

partnering between primes and subcontractors

All NITAAC Contract Holders contact information is available on the NITAAC website

NITAC Small Business Goals

Percentage

Small Business 28%

Small Disadvantaged Business

5%

Women-owned Small Business

5%

HUBZone Small Business 3%

Veteran-owned Small Business

3%

Service-disabled Veteran-owned Small Business

3%

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NITAAC Adds Value

Advantages of Using NITAAC

Faster: FAR 16.505 ordering procedures; streamlined process saves time

Easier: Secure online systems for competition management (e-GOS: Services and RFQ System: Products)

— Manage every aspect of procurement from solicitation to closeout (RFI, RFP, amendments, RFQ Market Research Tool, e-GOS Labor Rate Analysis tool)

Cost Competitive:

— CIO-SP3 average ceiling rates are 10-15% less than any other vehicle of its kind

— ECS III contract holder prices are less than or equal to their Federal Supply Schedule prices

Control: Task and delivery orders are placed directly by your agency

Contracts: Agile and flexible in support of all contract types

— Available for procurements worldwide

Customer Service Program Customer Support Center

• Customized support from Contracting Officers and IT Specialists 1-hour response to any contractual, technical and procedural questions

Technical Reviews Comprehensive SOW/PWS assessment on every order

• SOW/PWS evaluated for scope, clarity and other factors to assure quality responses

• Assessments returned with recommendations within 24 hours • Document library of tools and templates based on 20+ years of government wide

IT contracting

Training (2 Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) for every participant) • On-Site at customers location or WebEx • Monthly at NIH • CLPs apply to all three Federal Acquisition Certifications (FAC) programs

(FAC-C, FAC-COR, and FAC-P/PM)

Summary

Summary

Experience

• NITAAC has over 20 years experience in government-wide IT contracting

Performance

• All NITAAC Contract Holders are pre-vetted meeting strict quality and performance standards

Outreach and Training

• Strong commitment to Small Business trade shows/conferences

Small Business

• Achieve your Small Business goals

Customer Support

• NITAAC offers an extensive library of tools/templates and our Customer Support Center is available to assist you throughout the life of your contract

Experience

Performance

Outreach and Training

Small Business

Customer Support

Email: NITAACsupport@nih.gov

Phone: 1.888.773.6542

Web: www.nitaac.nih.gov

NITAAC Customer Support Center

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