Freezerworks pinnacle edition software upgrade

This is a Notice of Intent, not a request for proposal.  The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to negotiate on an other than full and open competition basis with Dataworks Development Inc., 6608 216th Street, SW, Suite 100, Mountlake Terrace, Washington 98043 to procure Freezerworks Pinnacle Edition Software.

The Freezerworks Pinnacle Server Software includes unlimited support, access to upgrades and, new version releases with our currently owned software edition will be used to continue to support ongoing research at the Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) to research, pursue, produce and clinical trial malaria vaccines.  In addition this includes 2 admissions to the Freezerworks Users Education Conference, 2 admissions to a Freezerworks Training Camp, up to three days of dedicated training/support (onsite or remote), and priority response time and upgrade access.

Place of Performance: Rockville, Maryland 20852.

Software Renewal Period: 3/01/2024-2/28/2025.

The Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) provides leadership and direction on effective strategies, policies, and standards for technology services, support for biomedical research programs, information technology resources, and customer support.  This includes ensuring information technology infrastructure, tools, and applications fully and comprehensively support the NIAID mission. The Clinical Informatics Branch within the OCICB provides specialized support to facilitate the integration of IT and clinical expertise to support NIAID’s research mission. The branch specializes in leveraging expertise to manage the implementation and configuration of industry standard research management tools.  In addition, the International Biomedical Research Support Program within the branch focuses on providing information technology and communication systems support for biomedical research at various national and international medical research facilities. Freezerworks is a sample tracking, biorepository management and freezer inventory program that is used by the NIAID laboratories to support clinical research.  Dataworks Development Inc., is the author, exclusive owner, and only known sole provided of the Freezerworks laboratory database products, which includes all add-on modules.  All maintenance support services for Freezerworks products must be purchased directly Dataworks Development Inc.

The statutory authority for this sole source requirement is 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (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 comparable services may submit a capability statement that will be considered by email (subject line to reference NOI-NIAID-24-2207060 to Kimberly Rubio at kimberly.rubio@nih.gov, by 11:00 am eastern standard time Thursday, February 8, 2024.  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.