NLM Exhibition Program Content Services

The National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine awarded this Master IDIQ on July 9, 2015, to provide specialized research, writing, and editing services for exhibition content, education resources, and online projects, but ordering against the vehicle closed on September 14, 2018, and no further task orders may be placed.

The vehicle is inactive and unsuitable for new pursuit. All $261 thousand in combined potential value across 12 task orders has been fully obligated. The most recent task order was awarded February 1, 2018—more than eight years ago—with ordering activity concentrated in the vehicle's first three years (2015–2017). The final order was placed approximately seven and a half years before the ordering deadline expired, signaling declining customer engagement well before contract closure.

Work contracted centered on content creation for the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division: research and writing services for exhibition assets, education materials, and digital gallery summaries; coordination of asset development and production workflows; and adaptation of existing exhibitions into traveling formats. Task orders were firm fixed price, ranging from $6,500 to $54,810, with typical durations of six to twelve months.

Competition was narrow. Porter Abigail and Orphanides, Nicole held 91 percent of awarded task order potential value combined ($237 thousand of $261 thousand), with Porter Abigail winning five orders and Orphanides, Nicole four. Sullivan, AMY C and Loren Miller Consulting, LLC split the remaining $25 thousand. Ninety-two percent of orders were set-aside for small business; one unrestricted order awarded in 2018 was the vehicle's final action. Customer demand came almost entirely from the National Library of Medicine itself (8 orders, $176 thousand); the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences placed the remaining 4 orders for $86 thousand.

This vehicle presents no active opportunity. Any interest would require monitoring for successor vehicles or pursuing work through other NLM or NIH contract mechanisms.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM) has awarded a Master IDIQ for specialized research and writing/editing services to support the development, coordination of assets, and production of content for exhibitions, education resources, and online projects that fulfil the mission of the Exhibition Program. Contractors work closely with the Exhibition Program team to conduct research and record source references; organize relevant asset data; write and edit asset and content summaries, scripts, and education and digital gallery materials; and coordinate the development and production of exhibition related resources.