Account Management, Planning, and Maintenance for Online Crowd-Sourced Surveys and Cognitive Tasks for Individuals
The National Institute of Mental Health seeks account management, planning, and maintenance services for an online crowd-sourced survey and cognitive tasks platform, with proposals due September 23, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. EST. This is a full and open competitive procurement for commercial items issued as an RFQ with no set-aside restrictions.
Place of performance is Bethesda, Maryland. The contractor must collect responses from at least 1,500 high-quality adult respondents fluent in English who have access to personal computers with Windows 10 or MacOS. Participants will complete surveys and cognitive tasks assessing depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric conditions, requiring approximately 75 minutes per participant. The contractor must process participant compensation within one calendar day of task completion, with compensation not to exceed $25 per completion. The contractor must demonstrate extensive experience managing online accounts and participant compensation.
The period of performance runs from September 28, 2026 through September 27, 2027, with one additional option year. Award will be a firm fixed-price purchase order to the lowest priced technically acceptable offeror. The NAICS code is 541990, All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, with a small business size standard of $19.5 million. The PSC is R499, Support-Professional: Other.
Responses must include clear and convincing evidence of capability to fulfill the requirement, labor categories with estimated hours, and total pricing. All offerors must be actively registered in SAM with their UEI, TIN, and business size certification. The contractor must comply with Section 508 accessibility standards, is prohibited from writing scientific publications based on contract work, and the Government retains unlimited rights and ownership of all deliverables. Amendment 1 extended the response deadline from September 21 and corrected the participant completion compensation ceiling from $20 to $25.
75N98026Q01128 Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse
9/16/26, 12:33 PM Account Management, Planning, and Maintenance for Online Crowd-Sourced Surveys and Cognitive Tasks for Individuals
The National Institute on Drug Abuse is issuing a sources sought notice to identify qualified small business sources capable of providing account management, planning, and maintenance for online crowd-sourced surveys and cognitive tasks for individuals, with responses due by September 16, 2026.
This is not a solicitation for proposals but an information-gathering notice to assess small business availability and capability under NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services). The Government will use responses to determine the appropriate acquisition method and whether a set-aside is justified. NIDA is seeking information on vendor small business status classifications, including HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, 8(a), veteran-owned, woman-owned, and small disadvantaged business designations. For any equipment or supply components, respondents must identify place of manufacturing and domestic end-product status, and small business manufacturers must address compliance with the Non-Manufacturer Rule under the applicable NAICS code. Only organizations meeting the small business size standard of $19.5 million should respond. Solicitation Number 75N98026Q01128.
75N98026Q01128 Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse
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