Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Since CMS came under attack in 2017, the program has worked hard to repair the many overlapping crises it faced. In addition to hardening your Cyber defenses, the program has struggled with the opioid crisis, and of course, the Covid Pandemic. It’s only been a couple of years since you launched the largest healthcare-focused Artificial Intelligence (AI) challenge in history valued at $1.6M. Entrants competed to create explainable AI solutions that clinicians could trust to predict health outcomes, target scarce resources and keep their patients healthy. This reflected your core mission: a focus on patient-centered care that was value-based, secure and put research into action to improve the healthcare of all.

What you may not realize is that NITAAC, a sister division under HHS, has been supporting your efforts arguably since the Clinger-Cohen Act was passed in 1996. In fact, NITAAC:

• Already supports over $3.1B* in CMS obligations.
• Is the only GWAC that requires all of its 387 CIO-SP3 contractors to have expertise in IT Services for Biomedical Research, Health Sciences and Healthcare.
• Assisted Acquisition Service orders are administered and awarded by Contracting Officers and specialists who were among the first to receive the new, mandatory, FAC-C Digital Services (DS) Certifications, which are now required on orders for the management of digital services over the FAR Subpart 13.500(c) commercial items threshold.
• Features rigorously pre-vetted Contract Holders recognized for IT innovations and FedRAMP certifications which many already hold 
• CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business GWACs have been extended through 4/29/25. Any task orders issued can have up to a 5-year period of performance, taking clients well into FY30.
• Will assure our customers always have a NITAAC contracting vehicle that accommodates their needs while CIO-SP4 is awarded and onboarded.

NITAAC will do whatever it takes to assure our customers always have a NITAAC vehicle that can handle their requirements. While we hope we can avoid another extension, we are prepared to get one if circumstances dictate. Please check with us before making any comparable IT obligations.

How NITAAC has helped CMS drive health system transformation.

When you look through the CMS Task and Delivery Orders listed here, you’ll see that NITAAC supports the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan outlined by HHS: to promote health and wellness; enhance delivery and experience of care; build a secure, data-driven ecosystem to accelerate research and innovation; and to connect health care and health data. We’re also ready to meet the President’s recent Executive Orders as threats to our supply chain and climate change grow more acute. Whether you need simple legacy operations and maintenance, as-a-service managed commodities, or complex enterprise-wide cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, NITAAC GWACs are the ones to call for:

• Meeting all of your information technology needs in one place with NITAAC Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs): CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business for IT Services/Solutions and CIO-CS for IT Commodities/Solutions 
• Purchasing commonly used commodities with Government-Wide Strategic Solutions (GSS), a subset of CIO-CS that meets all category management tiers and goals
• Help from Assisted Acquisitions with lowest fee (2% of total obligation)
• Awarding Task Orders in 45 days or less, and Delivery Orders in only 10 days
• Free Technical Assessments on every task order, turned around in only 2 business days
• Using NITAAC’s Electronic Government Ordering System to meet Fair Opportunity Requirements, order more easily and get 3-5 responses on most orders
• Using downs-selects and other creative contracting methods under FAR Subpart 16.505 to streamline competition, save money and make ordering much faster

Whether you need simple legacy systems operations and maintenance, out-of-the-box cloud solutions, or complex enterprise-wide cybersecurity or Artificial Intelligence, NITAAC GWACs are the ones to call.