Sentinel Initiative

The Food and Drug Administration seeks to award an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to provide services supporting the Sentinel Initiative through task orders over five years with a potential value of $250 million. Services include establishing an operations center, innovation center, and community outreach center to enhance medical product safety surveillance using real-world data. Offerors must demonstrate access to 100 million longitudinal patient records and the ability to access medical records. Proposals will be evaluated on technical approach, past performance, pricing, and compliance with solicitation requirements, with questions due by May 20, 2019 and proposals by May 24, 2019.

There is no set-aside designation. The primary NAICS code is 541715 and PSC code R425. The incumbent is unknown. Key requirements include maintaining existing analytic capabilities through ongoing operations, enhancing capabilities through innovation, and expanding user community engagement over five years. Task orders will provide funding for specific work and data network maintenance for over 100 million patient records to support FDA safety monitoring needs. The place of performance is at locations of the contractor and its data partners.