NIH Center for Information Technology awards HelpDesk Support task to GDIT

G2X TAKE: Building on the insights gained through their acquisition of a longtime partner to NIH, GDIT picks up a new 18-month task to support this Center that collaborates with the NIH intramural community in the areas of computational bioscience, engineering, informatics, and statistics to help make biomedical discoveries that protect and improve our nation’s health. Valued at $14M, this task was awarded using the NITAAC Chief Information Officer–Solutions and Partners 3 (CIO-SP3) GWAC. 

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• GDIT, less than 2 years removed from completing their $9.7B acquisition of CSRA, is a longtime and major partner to NIH AND CIT. Just a few of the recent wins include a $38M NHGRI IT Support Services task; a $159M Cyber Tech Infrastructure Support task at NIAID; and a $28M Monitoring, Program Management and O&M Support task. 
• While some companies are in a holding pattern, GDIT continues to add talent across the board in support of DHA, VA, CMS and HHS, including recently recruiting Paul Sommers as a Chief Technology Officer for the Federal Health sector.  
• Led by  Federal Health Sector Vice President & General Manager, Kamal Narang, GDIT was recently identified as one of the NXT UP firms poised to make big waves in the Federal sector in 2020 and for years to come (More here) and they were one of the firms recently named to Forbes’ Best Management Consulting Firms 2020. 

Included below is a snapshot that details primary contract vehicles used by GDIT at NIH for NAICS 541511, 541512, 541513, 541611 and 518210. CIO-SP3 has remained a go-to vehicle over the past decade

Federal contracting data provided to G2Xchange by Federal Compass; Date: March 2020