AJCC API License

The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center has issued a Notice of Intent to Sole Source for an American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) API License acquisition on behalf of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This special notice indicates the government's intent to procure a firm-fixed-price license for cancer staging system API access through a sole-source contract. The Interior Business Center is processing this action under FAR 13.5, and the government asserts that no other organization is known to provide a license with all the required elements. Interested parties have the opportunity to submit a capabilities statement to potentially challenge or participate in this sole-source determination. The notice was posted on December 9, 2025, and falls under the NAICS category for All Other Publishers with a PSC code for Support-Professional services.

The primary objective is to integrate the AJCC Cancer Staging System into the NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services Program and the NCI Thesaurus, which are critical infrastructure supporting data coding and reporting across multiple NCI programs and external stakeholders including the FDA. The contract structure includes a one-year base period with two one-year option periods. Interested contractors must submit a capabilities statement electronically to the Contracting Officer by 10:00 A.M. ET on December 12, 2025, with submissions not exceeding 10 pages, formatted in Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat format using at least 11-point font, and files no larger than 8 MB. There are no specific set-aside requirements or stated eligibility restrictions beyond the technical capability to provide the required AJCC API license. The government reserves the right to issue a Request for Quote based on the responses received and notes that all submissions will become government property.