CIO-SP3 and IT Vehicles for Small Firms
When a federal agency needs information technology services, it has several large contract vehicles to choose from — and for small firms, the most important of them after the GSA vehicles is CIO-SP3. Run by the National Institutes of Health, CIO-SP3 is a government-wide acquisition contract for IT services with a large small-business pool, and […]
8(a) STARS III Explained
If your firm is 8(a) certified and sells information technology services, there is one contract vehicle you should know by name: 8a STARS III. It is GSA’s government-wide acquisition contract reserved exclusively for 8(a) small businesses, and it is the main route through which federal agencies buy IT services from 8(a) firms. Agencies use it […]