Sources_Sought_Notice-Coordination_Center___11022026_1.pdf

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Innovation Funnel Coordination Center Sources Sought Notice

This is a Sources Sought notice. This is not a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations.

The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding the availability and capability of all qualified sources to perform a potential requirement.

Background

In response to the 2019 pandemic, the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Initiative was created to speed innovation in the development, commercialization, and implementation of medical technologies. Operating with an innovation funnel model, RADx was designed to compress the customary technology development timeline, helping technologies reach the marketplace 2-5x faster.

This was accomplished by employing, in parallel, expert teams to address technical, regulatory, clinical, and commercialization requirements. Leveraging this infrastructure, it is envisioned that innovations in diagnostic technologies will enable preparedness for future pandemics, as well as provide advances to the current healthcare paradigm.

The program hopes to continue efforts to support the acceleration of novel, diagnostic and monitoring technologies for use across a broad range of clinical indications and use settings. The fundamental operations of the program are supported by a centralized Coordination Center, responsible for all day-to-day activities including proposal solicitation, electronic proposal submission, data management, proposal evaluation, project management, website management, technical and business support, coordination of clinical and commercialization resources, drafting standard operating procedures, and delivering progress reports.

Capability Statement Requirements for the Coordinating Center

Sources that believe they possess the capabilities necessary to undertake this work should submit complete documentation of their capabilities to the Contracting Officer. Capability Statements will be evaluated based on the following requirements:

1. The capabilities statement must specifically address each project requirement separately.

2. Documented experience with similar large-scale project requirements in which the organization and proposed personnel have participated (provide list of projects for the past three years).

3. Demonstrate an established in-house Information Technology (IT) System for proposal submission, review, and tracking, including number of proposals completed for the past three years.

4. Demonstrate established Information Security (IS) practices to protect the proposals, reviews, and tracking information from unintentional or malicious disclosure.

5. Demonstrate ability to complete proposal evaluations for 100 applicants within 60 calendar days after receipt, ensuring no personnel have a conflict of interest with the proposals.

6. Demonstrate ability to manage 10-20 projects during a 12-month period. Include details on project management team structure and ongoing evaluation procedures.

7. CVs detailing the professional qualifications of technical and medical experts, entrepreneurs and business experts, and other personnel as it relates to the above outlined requirements,

8. A description of general and specific facilities and equipment currently available, including computer equipment and software (i.e., detail what equipment/software/internet backbone is on hand to complete this task), and

9. Any other information considered relevant to this program.

10. General information

a. Please provide your Company Name, Company Address, Company Website, Point of Contact Name, Point of Contact Email, and Point of Contact Phone Number.

b. What are your current GSA Schedule Contracts as applicable to this RFI?

c. What type of Company are you responding for, as shown in SAM?

d. What is your UEI (formally DUNS) number?

Project Requirements for Coordination Center

• Provide standard operating procedures for internal workflows.

• Provide IT systems and support for soliciting, receiving, tracking, reviewing, and managing project proposals.

• Provide IS systems to safeguard sensitive business information.

• Provide expertise across technical, clinical, and business domains related to medical devices and diagnostics.

• Provide support to evaluate proposal submissions: develop evaluation criteria, draft review templates, and convene expert review panels.

• Consolidate reviewer feedback and provide funding recommendations to the NIH.

• Convene project management teams consisting of individuals with product development experience in industry.

• Provide tracking and continual evaluation of project milestones, progress, and accomplishments.

The capability statement must not exceed 5 pages in length, excluding CVs and past performance (include as an Appendix), and using a 12-point font size minimum.

The government requests that no proprietary or confidential business data be submitted in a response to this notice. However, responses that indicate the information therein is proprietary will be properly safeguarded for Government use only. Capability statements must include the name and telephone numbers of a point of contact having authority and knowledge to discuss responses with Government representatives. Capability statements in response to this market survey that do not provide sufficient information for evaluation will be considered non- responsive. When submitting this information, please reference the sources sought notice number.

All capability statements sent in response to this Sources Sought Notice must be submitted electronically (via email) to Noelle DeCenzo, Contract Specialist, at noelle.decenzo@nih.gov and Melanie Suarez, Contracting Officer, at melanie.suarez@nih.gov in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), by December 4, 2026, at 12PM ET. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered.

This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in the response. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be mailto:noelle.decenzo@nih.gov mailto:melanie.suarez@nih.gov included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's capabilities.