NIH Awards Sparksoft with the CIO-SP4 $50B GWAC

News

Columbia MD, March 31, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) Awards Sparksoft with the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4 (CIO-SP4) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) in the Small Business, 8(a), Women-Owned Small Business, and HUBZone socioeconomic categories. This Best in Class (BIC) GWAC has a ceiling value of $50 billion with a 5-year Base Period of Performance, followed by a 5-year Optional Period of Performance. CIO-SP4 is intended to provide information technology (IT) solutions and services related to health, biomedical, scientific, administrative, operational, managerial, and information systems requirements.

The contract also includes general IT services because medical systems are increasingly integrated within a broader IT architecture. This broader IT architecture may require sound infrastructure systems approaches to their implementation and operation. To help ensure the ability to provide hardware/software without limitation, CIO-SP4 is considered a solutions-based contract. This term refers to contracts that encompass everything from the analysis of hardware / software implementation to ongoing operational support of an IT solution.

The task areas in the statement of work are designed to support the IT services described in the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). Ten task areas constitute the technical scope of this contract:
Task Area 1: IT Services for Biomedical Research, Health Sciences, and Healthcare
Task Area 2: CIO Support
Task Area 3: Digital Media
Task Area 4: Outsourcing
Task Area 5: IT Operations and Maintenance
Task Area 6: Integration Services
Task Area 7: Cyber Security
Task Area 8: Digital Government and Cloud Services
Task Area 9: Enterprise Resource Planning
Task Area 10: Software Development

Additionally, the scope of this contract is intended to cover leading edge, emerging, and future cutting-edge technologies that will evolve over the life of this contract. Several examples are:

Task Area 1: IT Services for Biomedical Research, Health Sciences and Healthcare, supports federal agencies in coordinating effective capital planning, investing, and implementation of interoperable health IT systems
Task Area 2: Chief Information Officer Support can be used to develop and maintain agency enterprise architectures in support of the FEA.
Several FEA components provide support for the execution of IT functions including customer relationship management and customer services in the Service Reference Model (SRM). These components can be supported through task areas 2, 4, and 5. Several Risk Management Framework (RMF) components provide support for the execution of IT security functions such as management of organizational risk and assessment and authorization. These components can be supported through task area 7.
For inherently IT components of the FEA, CIO-SP4 includes task areas that directly address those components. For example, the FEA includes document management as a digital asset service in the SRM that can be addressed through task area 8.
For non-IT components of the FEA, the contract includes task areas that support the automation of those components. For example, supply chain management is a business management service in the SRM. Task area 9 includes the services needed to automate supply chain management.
The FEA Technical Reference Model (TRM) includes standards and technology that may be selected and integrated into systems under specific task orders. For example, web servers could be selected and installed as part of Task Area 8. In general, all task areas ultimately awarded under this contract must be compatible with the architecture defined by the agency’s TRM. The standards and technology of the TRM will always be incorporated into the systems that are planned and developed under task orders awarded under the contract.
The contract can be used to award task orders that support the Performance Reference Model (PRM) by collecting agency metrics affected by their individual tasks. All task areas involve collecting applicable data for the PRM measurement category of information and technology management. Task orders can also support the automation, collection and evaluation of non-IT measurement areas.
The contract can be used to award task orders that require contractors to provide services that plan, implement and manage data defined in an agency’s Data Reference Model (DRM).

About Sparksoft Corporation

Sparksoft is a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Services and Development Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000-1:2018, ISO 27001:2013, and Federal Wide Assurance for the Protection of Human Subjects certified consulting organization with a proven record of successfully delivering modern digital health solutions for more than a dozen Federal, State, and Commercial customers. As evidenced by our 20+ active prime contracts and subcontracts, and further supported by our excellent Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs), Sparksoft is a highly mature and capable partner trusted by the government and industry. We bring to bear the essential institutional knowledge, contract vehicles, certifications, experienced personnel, and process maturity to deliver the requirements in compliance with Federal regulations, industry best practices, and agency governance needs.

Through our focused mission “to ignite innovation, inspire transformation, and implement digital solutions for a healthier nation” we specialize in DevOps Delivery, Data Science, Contact Center Operations, Life Sciences, and Test Automation. Since 2004, our exceptionally skilled people, proven leadership, and optimized processes all work together to relentlessly push for more efficient solutions for our HHS, Military Health, and Life Sciences clients. We have developed a support structure of Innovation Centers designed to collect our enterprise-wide lessons learned and identify project-specific opportunities for improvement. SparkLabs, where our Research & Development teams explore ideas and turn them into real-world solutions is an important impetus in our drive for innovation. We continually pull from our experience and combine this with forward-thinking technology from our certified partners like Red Hat, Microsoft, AWS, Okta, Google, Databricks, and ServiceNow to conceptualize novel and effective solutions such as our SparkLoader® RPA Data Pipeline, SparkGrid® Snowflake GUI, MockSpider® Virtual Sandbox, ScriptHive® for TDD/BDD automation, SparkMarker® Website Accessibility Platform, 508bee® Accessibility Validation, and many more.

Sparksoft’s website is updated regularly with news of product launches, contract awards, certification and vehicle changes, key hires, and corporate milestones. Visitors are encouraged to explore the website and also connect with us on Social Media