The purpose of the CIO-CS Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) is to provide a mechanism for the federal government to procure IT commodities and solutions as they relate to general IT initiatives along with health and life sciences IT capabilities as defined in FAR 2.101. Federal agencies can use this GWAC for acquiring a wide range of IT commodities and associated commodity-enabling…
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No. You only need to provide all eligible contract holders fair opportunity to respond to the RFQ, which is accomplished by using NITAAC's e-GOS System.
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Unless otherwise specified in the delivery order, all arrangements for transportation and shipping shall be made by the Contractor, and all transportation and shipping charges for deliveries to CONUS locations shall be included in the item prices. Transportation and shipping charges for deliveries OCONUS will be negotiated on each individual delivery order.
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Yes. You may elect to close your RFQ in one day. However, NITAAC recommends leaving the RFQ open for a minimum of three days to obtain maximum responses from the contractors.
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The Workstation Category Team (WCT), an interagency task force, was charged with analyzing and optimizing current laptop and desktop computer acquisition practices. Based on the WCT’s review, OMB identified three critical steps to improve acquisition practices: (1) establish standard specifications that generally will suffice to meet federal agency computing needs; (2) consolidate federal…
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The WCT determined that approximately 80 percent of federal agencies’ computing needs could be satisfied through one of five standard specifications.
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All CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business contract holder on-and off-site rates can be obtained by logging into e-GOS here . You can also visit the contract holder information page of each contract holder in the Contract Holder Directory . In the Contract Holder Directory, you can select the contract holder whose rates you want to see, and click the link to their individual websites.
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For FAR guidance on postaward debriefing, please see FAR 16.505(b)(6)(iii) at https://www.acquisition.gov/far/16.505 .
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See the policies and procedures at FAR 16.505(b)(6) https://www.acquisition.gov/far/16.505 .
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The NITAAC team looks at scope, contract type, periods of performance, evaluation criteria, specificity of tasking and deliverables and the deliverable schedule. We will also note whether the SOW is performance based. NITAAC will provide suggestions for improving the SOW/PWS/SOO for all review areas as necessary, but the final decision on implementing any suggestions rests with the acquiring…
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