CIO-CS Contract (Conformed)

Through its CIO-CS and CIO-SP3 GWACs, NITAAC offers a complete IT portfolio for IT commodities and services.  Because the scope of CIO-CS is commodities, services available under that contract relate to the operation and sustenance of the IT equipment, commodities and products such as deployment and installations, warranty and maintenance, training, engineering, design, assessment studies, and other associated value added services.  In certain cases, such as with managed services, certain professional services are subsumed within the offering of the IT commodity. Professional service such as systems development, systems engineering, testing, etc. would be more appropriately obtained from CIO-SP3.

Yes. All products and services on the CIO-CS contract are commercially available.

Yes. CIO-CS is an Indefinite-Delivery Contract which gives ordering contracting officers the discretion to set delivery orders aside for small business and small disadvantaged business identified in FAR 19.000(a)(3).

Yes. For orders exceeding the micro-purchase threshold, before setting the delivery order aside, the ordering contracting officer must determine if there is a reasonable expectation of obtaining offers from two or more responsible small business concerns that are competitive in terms of market prices, quality and delivery unless one of the exceptions in FAR 16.505(b)(2)(i) applies. e-GOS automatically shows you the number of contract holders capable of responding to your small business set-aside requirement when you create your order. (For more information see FAR Subpart 19.502-2.)