Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots

Added: Jan 13, 2014 4:50 pm Modified: Feb 19, 2014 12:53 pmTrack Changes

The purpose of this administrative amendment is to update the links for the "Breakdown of Proposed Estimated Cost (Plus Fee) and Labor Hours" workbook found in Section IV.C. on page 37 of the BAA.

The workbook can be found in a link here:
http://oamp.od.nih.gov/DGS/reference-material-prospective-offerors-and-contractors/contracting-forms

or directly here:
http://oamp.od.nih.gov/sites/default/files/DGS/contracting-forms/spshexcl_dec2012.xlsx

The proposal due date is unchanged.

The purpose of this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is to support the development of a new model for computational analysis of biological data that has the potential to address the challenges described above. This model (which has been articulated recently in a series of NCI Precision Medicine Workshops and publications by experts in the field of biomedical informatics) involves the creation of a set of data repositories with co-located computational capacity and an Application Programming Interface (API) that provides security and data access for developers of analytic tools. In this model, applications are brought to the data, rather than bringing the data to the applications. Such a "Cancer Genomics Cloud" has the potential to democratize access to NCI-generated genomic data and provide a more cost-effective way to provide computational support to the cancer research community.

Towards this end, the NCI seeks to sponsor the development of multiple Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots that will be available for use and testing by the scientific community as part of a competitive evaluation that will include technical benchmarking and cost analysis. If successful, the NCI will consult with the cancer research community and relevant oversight committee(s) to define, and potentially construct, a production version of one or more of the pilot clouds, or a successor design informed by the results of the pilot evaluations. In spirit, and by design, this new initiative will be the first step toward the establishment of a full Cancer Knowledge Commons, along the lines called for in the National Academy report on Precision Medicine, and will be coordinated with The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative and other relevant activities in large-scale data analysis.

No telephone inquiries will be accepted. All inquiries must be submitted in writing to ncicloud@mail.nih.gov. Any inquiries submitted after February 20, 2014 at 4:00 PM local time may not be reviewed. FAQ are anticipated to be posted on a weekly basis at: http://cbiit.nci.nih.gov/ncip/nci-cancer-genomics-cloud-pilots.

Added: Jan 13, 2014 4:50 pm The purpose of this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is to support the development of a new model for computational analysis of biological data that has the potential to address the challenges described above. This model (which has been articulated recently in a series of NCI Precision Medicine Workshops and publications by experts in the field of biomedical informatics) involves the creation of a set of data repositories with co-located computational capacity and an Application Programming Interface (API) that provides security and data access for developers of analytic tools. In this model, applications are brought to the data, rather than bringing the data to the applications. Such a "Cancer Genomics Cloud" has the potential to democratize access to NCI-generated genomic data and provide a more cost-effective way to provide computational support to the cancer research community.

Towards this end, the NCI seeks to sponsor the development of multiple Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots that will be available for use and testing by the scientific community as part of a competitive evaluation that will include technical benchmarking and cost analysis. If successful, the NCI will consult with the cancer research community and relevant oversight committee(s) to define, and potentially construct, a production version of one or more of the pilot clouds, or a successor design informed by the results of the pilot evaluations. In spirit, and by design, this new initiative will be the first step toward the establishment of a full Cancer Knowledge Commons, along the lines called for in the National Academy report on Precision Medicine, and will be coordinated with The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative and other relevant activities in large-scale data analysis.

No telephone inquiries will be accepted. All inquiries must be submitted in writing to ncicloud@mail.nih.gov. Any inquiries submitted after February 20, 2014 at 4:00 PM local time may not be reviewed. FAQ are anticipated to be posted on a weekly basis at: http://cbiit.nci.nih.gov/ncip/nci-cancer-genomics-cloud-pilots.