By Nick Wakeman,
Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology

Notices are going out to winners, but there are still concerns that the $50 billion IT vehicle will get mired in protests again.

Award notices for the $50 billion CIO-SP4 contract vehicle have started going out and the big question is, will its long-troubled history continue to repeat itself?

The National Institutes of Health’s IT Acquisition and Assessment Center confirmed to us that awards are being finalized, but no final list of winners has been released. No word either on how many bidders have been rejected.

NITAAC has not updated its CIO-SP4 information page since July. CIO-SP4 is a government-wide contract vehicle with a $50 billion ceiling that covers health, biomedical, scientific, administrative, operational, managerial and information systems requirements.

One source said debriefings have not begun yet, but what NITAAC has sent out is similar to the notices sent last year that led to hundreds of protests at the Government Accountability Office.

GAO either sustained or dismissed the protests when NITAAC said it would reconsider its decision.

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