NITAAC will be exhibiting. For more information, or to register for the event, please visit the event website. NITAAC is not responsible for registration. Event overview - The Government Procurement Conference is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its prime contractors, and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone…
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NITAAC will be exhibiting at booth #3106 located in the Maryland Ballroom. To register for the event, please visit the event website. NITAAC is not responsible for registration. Event overview - Powered by the Navy League of the United States, Sea-Air-Space is the premier maritime exposition in the U.S., bringing together defense industry leaders and top military decision-makers from around the…
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NITAAC will be exhibiting. For more information about the event, or to register for the conference, please visit the event website. NITAAC is not responsible for registration. Overview: As the largest and most comprehensive gathering of contract management professionals, NCMA World Congress is where the entire acquisition workforce—from every sector and career stage—comes together to build what’s…
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NITAAC will be exhibiting in the Tampa Convention Center at booth #3117. For more information about the event, or to register for the conference please visit the event website. NITAAC is not responsible for registration. Event overview - SOF Week brings the international Special Operations community together for one focused week of collaboration, learning, and capability development. Jointly…
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NITAAC will be exhibiting. For more information, or to register for the event, please visit the event website. NITAAC is not responsible for registration. Event overview - The IT Vendor Management Office (ITVMO) Annual Summit brings together federal leaders, acquisition professionals, program teams, and industry partners to explore how recent acquisition reforms are reshaping federal IT buying…
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As Cybersecurity Awareness Month celebrates its 19th year, instituting a robust cyber posture takes on a new meaning for federal agencies. In May 2021, President Biden issued an executive order to strengthen and improve America’s cybersecurity. Known as “Zero Trust” the order called for federal agencies to wall off information technology (IT) systems behind a secure network perimeter. A year…, Challenge #1: Lack of IT expertise, All NITAAC Contracting Officers are Digital IT Acquisitions Professional (DITAP) certified, which means they are well-versed in designing innovative and flexible procurements for information technology and digital transformation. If your agency lacks the time, or manpower, to complete the acquisition in-house, NITAAC contracting professionals will work with you to determine the best course…, Challenge #2: Identifying and prioritizing needs and concerns, Cybersecurity products and services are available from industry leading Contract Holders under CIO-SP3, CIO-SP3 Small Business and CIO-CS. Our Contract Holders have the right cybersecurity solutions in place, and the federal performance experience, to ensure agencies can accomplish their missions knowing their information is protected and Zero Trust compliant. Once selected, our Contract Holders…, Challenge #3: Repairing or rebuilding existing legacy infrastructure, The current push for modernization is not just about updating or replacing old technology. It’s about finding more cost-effective, innovative approaches to delivering IT services and improving services delivered to the citizen. Here at NITAAC, we get it. That’s why our Contracting Officers are so essential to our offerings. We have a team of FAC-C-DS Level-III certified contracting professionals…
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September 30 marks the end of the federal fiscal year and the beginning of what has become a phenomenon in federal acquisitions known as the end of fiscal year buying season. In a nutshell, at the end of the fiscal year, unspent funds expire, and agencies make plans to spend their allocated dollars to exhaust the “use or lose” funds in their budgets. In 2021, 28% of all total federal fiscal year…, Designed for Efficiency and Speed, GWACs were established by the Clinger Cohen Act as a mechanism to streamline the information technology (IT) procurement process. In a nutshell, contracting officers found it was taking a long time to award IT procurement contracts—so long that by the time the award was made, the technology being awarded, was obsolete. GWACs were created as a mechanism to reduce the timeframe to meet an agency’s…, Everything IT, What’s more, with the NITAAC family of GWACs, agencies are not limited in what they can purchase. The CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business GWACs offer everything IT with IT services and solutions across ten Task Areas, ranging from biomedical research to software development. CIO-CS also features everything IT across nine categories, ranging from hardware to managed services. You aren’t limited…, Laptops and Desktops, Too, NITAAC Government-Wide Strategic Services (GSS) , now in Version 8 , offers agencies five standard configurations of laptops, desktops and more than 3,483 EPEAT certified products to choose from. NITAAC GSS is available under the CIO-CS IT Commodities and Solutions Contract , part of the Category Management Initiative of preferred contracts of the White House Office of Management and Budget. As…, NITAAC is Your Single Source for End of Year Buying Needs, From IT modernization to cyber to software to Health IT , NITAAC is your one-stop source for all your end of year spending needs. And nobody makes getting IT quite as easy as NITAAC. You can find it and order it (with little or no training) through our easy-to-understand e-GOS . If your agency has “use or lose’ funding, maybe it’s time you lose yourself learning about NITAAC. For twenty-six…
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Achieve End of Year Fiscal Spending Goals and Help Save the Planet with NITAAC GSS, 2022 marks the third consecutive EPEAT Award win for NITAAC. Globally recognized, EPEAT helps purchasers, manufacturers and resellers buy and sell environmentally preferable electronic products. The Global Electronics Council, which owns and manages EPEAT, also facilitates the EPEAT Purchaser Awards. The awards recognize excellence in sustainable procurement of EPEAT-registered products. NITAAC…, Environmentally Responsible End of Fiscal Year Spending, As agencies look toward the end of the fiscal year and find themselves purchasing commodities, such as laptops and desktops, to meet their end of fiscal year buying needs, NITAAC can help. We are committed to providing EPEAT certified laptops, desktops, printers, monitors and servers to meet all our agency partner information technology (IT) needs. In fact, FAR subpart 23.704 requires that 95%…
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Initially developed by Carnegie Mellon University for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the National Defense Industrial Association, the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), is a proven, outcome-based performance model and the globally accepted standard for improving capability, optimizing business performance and aligning operations to business goals. CMMI provides…
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The National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) is tasked with improving the lives of cancer patients by identifying better ways to treat, control and cure cancer. That’s a tall order, with 1.9 million Americans diagnosed with cancer every year according to the American Cancer Society. CTEP coordinates the largest publicly funded oncology clinical trials organization in…
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