National Institutes of Health begins small-business awards by picking 10 service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses for huge IT services contract.
The National Institutes of Health has issued a solicitation for the long-awaited Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 governmentwide IT contract.
The health IT market is on the cusp of a growth period thanks to the NIH Chief Information Officer Solutions and Partners 3 program. But don't expect an explosion of spending.
OMB officials have approved the governmentwide contract after recognizing agencies' new duties because of the major overhaul of the health-care system.
If the General Services Administration is successful in convincing the Office of Federal Procurement Policy that NIH should lose its governmentwide contract authority, the agency could pick up $1 billion in new business.