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CIO-CS
CDW•G DELIVERS
AN IT CONTRACT FOR THE TIMES CIO-CS Becomes Governmentwide Solution
S AGENCIES REPLACE
aging technology and infrastructure, shore
up cybersecurity and prepare for the next
generation of IT, many are turning to CIO-
CS to meet their IT requirements.
Well-engineered, fast and a pleasure
to use, CIO-CS is the convertible vehicle of federal contracting.
and Solutions, CIO-CS charges the
and easy to use. And CIO-CS
has the muscle to procure a
broad range of products and services: end-user computing, servers, storage and enterprise mobility and collaboration tools, cloud computing and storage, healthcare IT, deployment and installation services, maintenance and training, engineering studies
Moreover, contractors on all
CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small
comprehensive solutions to
agencies to go outside the family of “CIO” contracts.
“We can easily bundle everything together into one
process and ultimately gets products and services into the says Bill Robinson, program manager for the contract at holder.
Ease of use differentiates CIO-CS, a10-year, $20 billion contract administered by the Information Technology Acquisition NITAAC’s staff strives for fast turnarounds on TRP (Technology extra help to users unfamiliar
THE EVOLUTION OF CIO-CS
Evolution of the popular CIO-CS contract mirrors the shifting landscape of IT itself.
In its first iteration, the contracting vehicle that would become CIO-CS came into existence in the form of Electronics Commodities Store III (ECS III) in 2002. Man- aged by the National Institutes of Health, the $6 billion contract was a success. Designed with a focus on com- modity hardware and direct support services, the new vehicle complemented NIH’s services contracts, CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP3 Small Business.
But as pressure to modernize agencies’ IT infrastructures grew, ECS III in its original form wasn’t broad enough. So
when a follow-on contract was issued in April 2015, CIO-CS received a makeover. The new renamed contract, CIO-CS, expanded to encompass IT modernization technologies and services, including cloud and managed services.
Since then, CIO-CS and its companion contracts have emerged as some of the easiest to use, most economical
and most far-reaching GWACs in the federal government.
Eager to maintain those benefits to customers, NIH’s
Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) is working to earn elite Best in Class (BIC) status for its CIO-SP3 contracts, a designation that
CIO-CS already holds.
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