This is a series of delivery order contracts awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to Axle Informatics, LLC, a certified Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB). The contracts, with a cumulative potential value exceeding $12.7 million, provide professional, scientific, and technical support services for NIAID's research programs focused on infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, influenza, malaria, and other conditions. Axle Informatics will leverage its expertise in areas such as clinical trials, data analytics, bioinformatics, and identity management to support NIAID's intramural and extramural research efforts across multiple divisions and offices, including the Vaccine Research Center, Division of Allergy Immunology and Transplantation, and Division of Clinical Research. The work will primarily be performed at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland under the NIAID Professional, Scientific and Technical Support Services Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle, which allows the agency to procure a diverse set of specialized services to advance its biomedical research mission. None of the individual delivery order contracts utilize small business set-asides.
Axle Informatics, as a prime contractor to NIH, also holds several large IDIQ and Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute worth up to $99 million and $98 million respectively. These contract vehicles further enable Axle Informatics to provide clinical research, data management, and identity management support services across NIH institutes and centers beyond just NIAID. The company's capabilities in translational research, health informatics, and data science applications make it well-suited to assist federal biomedical research agencies like HHS and NIH in advancing their scientific and public health priorities.