CIO-SP3, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Multiple Award IT Service Contract is being procure under small and large business Requests for Proposals.

RFP	Proposal Due Date	Number of Awards	Length of Contract
CIO-SP3 Large Business	11/19/2010	35 - 40	10 years
CIO-SP3 Small Business	Sometime in October 2010	35 - 40	10 years

The large and small business RFPs (as published) are virtually identical. Large businesses have to respond to all ten technical IT service tasks while small businesses have to respond to only three.

Fedmarket has developed an innovative, new product that will help companies save substantial sums of proposal writing dollars.

The CIO-SP3 Model Proposal, provided in Microsoft Word format, is designed to be refined and modified by companies submitting a proposal in response to a CIO-SP3 solicitation. Customers using the product may add company-specific information to the model proposal. Once a user has refined or modified the model text, it will have a completed proposal that is within the page limits specified in the solicitation.

Fedmarket is offering proposal templates for both the large and small business solicitations. The content of the proposal sections in our templates are shown below.

For more information or a demonstration call a Fedmarket sales representative at 888 661 4094, Ext. 2.

Proposal Section	Template Content
Cover Letter	Outline and instructions
Compliance Checklist	Compliance matrix less page numbers
Contractor Team Arrangements	Outline and instructions
Program Management	Model text to be refined by customer
Corporate Commitment	Model text to be refined by customer
Technical Understanding and Capability for Each Task Area	Outline and instructions
Small Disadvantaged Business Participation	Model Text to be refined by customer
Past Performance	Model Text to be refined by customer
Price and Cost	Excel spread sheets and instructions
Small Business Subcontracting Plan	Model Plan with insertions by customer
Other Administrative Data	Outline and instructions