The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center issued a purchase order to Manage Incorporated valued at $48,109.92 for Blood Bank Control System server system IBM hardware and software support services, awarded September 22, 2026, with performance through September 21, 2027.
Work is performed at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The order covers maintenance and support for IBM Power9 servers, SAN storage, PowerHA failover capability, and nightly system backups supporting the Blood Bank Control System/ABO application used for blood collection, donor recruitment, testing, transfusion activities, and specialized blood product creation. Manage Incorporated has provided this specialized support since 2006 and is the sole service provider for the proprietary environment. The order was issued on a firm fixed-price basis with no set-aside and originated from a pre-solicitation notice posted July 1, 2026, identifying Manage Incorporated as sole source for the customized Blood Bank Control System infrastructure at NIH's research hospital.