‘Preliminary’ List for $50 Billion IT Contract Is 425 Companies

A total of 425 companies have been named preliminary awardees on the long-awaited Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners-4 contract vehicle following an announcement March 31 by the National Institutes of Health, which manages the governmentwide IT services vehicle.

NIH’s Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center told industry that it had “completed its evaluation of proposals in all three phases in accordance with the subject solicitation, including its source selection procedures.”

The CIO-SP4 announcement said NITAAC also is “posting a ‘preliminary’ notice of apparent successful offerors until such time that we can post the actual apparent successful offeror notice. This ...