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“Emerging Large Business” in CIO-SP4The solicitation for the National Institutes of Health’s long-awaited “CIO-SP4” governmentwide IT contract is out, and it introduces benefits for a new category of business: “Emerging Large Business,” or ELB. The ELBs are defined in the Request for Proposals as businesses with annual average revenues over $30 million and under $500 million. They are the so-called mid-tier firms that have grown too large to be considered small. There has been talk for several years of agencies assisting such firms with set-asides or other benefits, and this appears to be one of the first efforts to do that. Under the CIO-SP4 solicitation, ELBs will compete only with other ELBs to win a position on the CIO-SP4 vehicle. However, for task order awards, ELBs will be considered “Other Than Small” and will compete with large and small firms. Once they are on the vehicle, the ELBs will face open competition, so it is not clear how much benefit the ELBs will derive from being defined as a category. There are 20 awards on the vehicle planned for ELBs, and there are 75 to 125 such awards anticipatd for Other Than Small firms. The CIO-SP4 Final RFP also states that small businesses in 8 categories will compete only with others in the same category to win positions on the vehicle. It also provides for task order set-asides, including “automatic” set-asides for contracts less than $1.3 million. The 8 categories, and the number of awards planned, are
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