Combined Synopsis Solicitation- Acquire Neurodevel

The National Institutes of Health Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations is conducting a non-competitive combined synopsis/solicitation to award a firm-fixed-price purchase order for neurodevelopmental survey services to Virginia Commonwealth University Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry, with responses due August 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM EST. This is a streamlined solicitation under FAR 12.603 for commercial services and does not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold.

The procurement is not set-aside. Place of performance is 10 Center Drive, Room 7S203, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-3747. The contractor shall conduct a one-year period of performance encompassing comprehensive survey development, participant recruitment, and data collection, targeting approximately 1,000 to 1,200 completed surveys from juvenile and adult twins. Key deliverables include IRB coordination and approval, programming online surveys in REDCap with survey logic and quality assurance, SRS survey licensing coordination (with government-paid licensing fees), identification and recruitment of eligible participants from the MATR database using multiple outreach methods, survey administration with parental consent where required, collection of participant consent for contact information release, distribution of electronic gift card incentives, and provision of de-identified survey data and participant contact information. Estimated staffing spans seven personnel categories totaling between 1,400 and 1,420 hours. The government maintains unlimited rights to all de-identified data. Deliverables include pilot survey data within four weeks of launch, quarterly de-identified datasets during primary collection, lists of consenting participants, and a final dataset with documentation. NAICS code is 541910 (Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling); PSC code is R405 (Support—Professional: Operations Research/Quantitative Analysis). Responses must include capability demonstrations, pricing details, UEI, TIN, business size certification, and FAR 52.212-3 representations and certifications. Point of contact is Cassie Runner, Contract Specialist, cassie.runner@nih.gov, 301-480-8827.