Centralized information technology system for the NIH blueprint neurotherapeutics network

The National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse seeks to procure a centralized, web-based information technology system for the NIH Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network. The system must collect, maintain, and allow authorized users to upload, import, search, analyze, and visualize chemical structure and bioactivity data from multiple NIH-funded research projects. Interested parties must submit capability statements by November 3rd, 2020 addressing requirements to host a system with 35 user licenses accessible via the internet on PC and Mac operating systems and to integrate data from ongoing projects.

The contract is set aside for total small business and has a base period from May 2021 to April 2022 with four one-year option periods. The incumbent contractor is Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. under a one year, $296,460 firm fixed price contract to provide commercial off the shelf software with minor modifications and specified support services for a cloud-hosted FedRAMP certified database to store and visualize chemical structures, bioactivity, pharmacology, and toxicology data for each compound with an estimated volume of new data added each year.