D.75N95020R00008_TORP_02.pdf

Task Order Request for Proposals (TORP) 75N95020R00008-02 NCATS Collaborative Scientific Platform

A. Task Order Title

NCATS Collaborative Scientific Platform as a Service Pilot Continuation – PEPFAR Access

B. Proposal Due Date and Delivery Address

Proposals are due by 11:00 am Eastern time, January 22, 2020. Proposals are to be delivered via e-mail to Stuart Kern at stuart.kern@nih.gov.

C. Task Order Period of Performance

January 28, 2020 – September 27, 2020.

D. Task Order Type

This TORP will result in a firm-fixed price task order (TO).

E. Task Order Statement of Work

a. Background, Objectives, and Scope

The NCATS Collaborative Scientific Platform (NCSP) is an NCATS-sponsored cloud-based system that provides a collaborative platform-as-a-service for NIH collaborators to manage and work with large amounts of complex, cutting-edge data. Collaborators include institutes and centers at NIH as well as external partners such as research hospitals, academic institutions, industry stakeholders, and other government agencies. The NCSP is established through an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, with task orders issued to support the requirements of individual groups. The Platform was initially established under NIH contract no. HHSN271201800020I and continued under contract no. 75N95020P00041.

Under these contracts, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) continued its pilot of a data innovation effort to create an integrated platform using Palantir Technologies, Inc.’s Gotham environment. PEPFAR is a multi-agency effort led by the Department of State; NIH is represented by NIAID. This integrated platform shows, in real time, (anonymized) patient data, clinic utilization, drug inventories, and financial information, all in a graphical, drillable format. Immediate access to this information allows PEPFAR to monitor the entire range of efforts from individual patient treatment through clinic utilization to country-wide health outcomes. This effort was piloted against one country, Zambia, with the eventual goal of using it to support PEPFAR’s efforts in some three dozen countries.

The objective of this task order is to provide continued access to the NCATS Collaborative Scientific Platform in order to provide comprehensive data capabilities to PEPFAR in its work in two host countries to support administration of HIV-related programs.

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Task Order Request for Proposals (TORP) 75N95020R00008-02 NCATS Collaborative Scientific Platform

b. Requirements

Independently and not as an agent of the Government, the Contractor shall furnish all the necessary services, qualified personnel, material, equipment, and facilities, not otherwise provided by the Government, as needed to perform the following.

i. Licensing Scope

Within the Statement of Work included in Solicitation no. 75N95020R00008 (the parent solicitation for this task order RFP), and in accordance with the Detailed Technical Specifications included therein, the Contractor shall provide a term license for the NCATS Collaborative Scientific Platform in order to implement a unified data asset to support PEPFAR efforts in two countries.

ii. PEPFAR Unified Data Asset Implementation

The contractor shall:

1. Integrate selected data sources as mutually agreed upon by PEPFAR, the host country, and the contractor;

2. Configure country-specific applications to provide analytical tools, reporting applications, alerting/notification capabilities, data quality tools, and other data workflows.

F. Technical Proposal Instructions

Your technical proposal shall address the requirements as set forth in this TORP.

G. Business Proposal Instructions

Your business proposal shall provide a firm-fixed price amount that accounts for all the requirements as set forth in this TORP, including user access, cloud hosting, and professional services.

In addition, your business proposal shall identify payment milestones and provide a payment schedule per milestone.

The resultant task order will be fixed-price and will not authorize reimbursement for any costs, including other direct costs, cloud hosting, or travel. For the duration of the period of performance, installation, implementation, system configuration, mutually agreed upon training, and operations and maintenance (O&M) (including cloud hosting) are included at no additional cost.

H. Evaluation for Task Order Award

The Government will award a task order resulting from this TORP if the proposal conforms to this solicitation, price and other factors considered. The following factors shall be used to evaluate your proposal: (1) technical (capability of the item offered to meet the agency need); and (2) price.