Articulate 360 Teams
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- NOI-CC-26-000076
- Agency
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NIH Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 513210 Software Publishers
- Place of performance
- Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Institute of Health Clinical Center (NIH-CC), a civilian agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a Special Notice on December 15, 2025, announcing its intent to negotiate a non-competitive procurement with Articulate Global for Articulate 360 Teams software. This Notice of Intent indicates that the NIH-CC will pursue a sole-source acquisition rather than conducting full and open competition. The procurement is for a yearly license subscription supporting e-learning authoring tools used across multiple departments within the Clinical Center. The agency justified this approach based on the vendor's unique capabilities and the Clinical Center's operational requirements. The posting and related acquisition documents provide the foundation for the agency's justification to procure exclusively from Articulate Global.
The primary objective of this procurement is to renew a yearly subscription license for Articulate 360 covering 26 users at a cost of $35,076.60, enabling the Nursing Department and four other Clinical Center entities to continue creating and maintaining online training courses for a 24/7 workforce. The NIH-CC Nursing Department has utilized Articulate 360 since 2015 to develop over 60 online courses and requires continued access to maintain and update this existing course library; switching to an alternative vendor would necessitate rebuilding all course materials. The due date for this notice is December 22, 2025, though as a Notice of Intent for sole-source procurement, this is not a competitive bidding opportunity open to other vendors. Only Articulate Global is eligible to respond to this procurement, as the agency has determined that Articulate 360 is the sole available product meeting the Clinical Center's requirements for a comprehensive, customizable e-learning authoring tool suite. This procurement supports patient safety and clinical quality by ensuring the Clinical Center can deliver accessible, consistent professional development training across departments.
Notice text
This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal. The National Institute of Health, Clinical Center (NIH-CC) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with the following vendor: Articulate Global.
Acquisition Description:
The Clinical Center Nursing Department currently utilizes Articulate 360 authoring software tocreate online trainings/courses which are published to Learning Management Systems (LMS). TheNursing Department has been using this software since 2015 and has created numerous onlinecourses. The software is critical to developing easily accessible trainings for a 24/7 workforce. Inrecent years four other Clinical Center entities have started use the software – Department of ClinicalResearch Informatics, Office of Clinical Research, Office of Workforce Management andDevelopment, and the Pharmacy Department. Increasing the footprint across the hospital helps thoseareas meet their individual missions and also strengthens collaborative efforts on interdepartmentaltraining initiatives. research beds in the United States and accommodates about 7,000 inpatientand 70,000 outpatient visits a year. Patients with rare medical conditions are admitted to the NIHClinical Center from all over the world for the sole purpose of participating in a clinical researchprotocol.
The NIH Clinical Center Nursing Department Program Director for Nursing ProfessionalDevelopment completed a review of e-learning authoring tool products using online resources.From that review and comparison, Articulate 360 was found to be the only vendor who provided asuite of customizable tools to meet the needs of novice to proficient content developers. In addition,since 2015 the Nursing Department has developed a wealth of experience using the Articulate 360suite of e-learning authoring tools. Over 60 online courses have been developed by the NursingDepartment using this software. These courses will continue to need maintenance and updates.Without Articulate 360, the Clinical Center would have to start from scratch with a new vendor’ssoftware in order to make changes to 60 + online courses. This would significantly impact on theClinical Center’s ability to make updates to existing LMS courses and provide them in a reasonabletime-frame to the clinical staff.
The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 1901 (a) (1) as implemented by FAR 13.106-1 only one responsible source and no other supply of service will satisfy agency requirements. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. All responsible sources that could provide the required may submit a capability statement that will be considered by email (subject line to reference NOI-CC-26-000076) by 11:00 AM eastern standard time on 12/22/2025 to: valerie.gregorio@nih.gov.
All responses received by the closing date of this synopsis will be considered by the Government. A determination not to compete this requirement, based upon responses to this notice, is solely within the discretion of the Government.
Files
| File | Type | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Sole Source Memo.HM.12.25_sign.pdf | ||
| Statement of Need_Echo360 Turning Technologies.pdf |
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