NIH Cohort Compass Pilot
Past New Requirement Updated
- Agency
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National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
- Solicitation expected
- Estimated value
- $700,000 to $1,500,000
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Forecast facts
- Anticipated award
- NAICS code
- 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services
- Points of contact
Forecast details come from HHS's procurement forecast. Agencies' dates and values are estimates.
About this forecast
The National Institutes of Health forecasts a new, full and open requirement for the NIH Cohort Compass pilot, with an estimated solicitation release date and estimated award date of November 1, 2026. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences is launching the pilot in coordination with the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy to build an interoperability layer across disparate cloud-hosted repositories under NAICS 541511, Custom Computer Programming Services. The requirement calls for federated, privacy-preserving query capabilities that let researchers run immediate, aggregate feasibility checks on whether a meaningful cohort exists without moving individual-level patient data or compromising local institutional control, and it replaces an FY 2026 small business request with an FY 2027 request under no set-aside.
The estimated award value range is $700,000 to $1,500,000. Justin Borden, Contract Specialist, is the primary point of contact at justin.borden@nih.gov or +1 (301) 480-9887, and Andrew Kelly is a second contact at andy.kelly@nih.gov.
Forecast text
In biomedical research, establishing whether a scientifically meaningful cohort exists across separate, highly secure data repositories is a major operational bottleneck. Currently, NIH researchers and program staff spend months negotiating Data Use Agreements, data transfer agreements, and aligning privacy policies before learning if a combined cohort is statistically viable.
To address this challenge, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, in coordination with the National Institutes of Health Office of Data Science Strategy, is launching the "NIH Cohort Compass" pilot. This project establishes an interoperability layer across disparate cloud-hosted repositories. By allowing federated, privacy-preserving query capabilities, researchers can perform immediate, aggregate "feasibility checks" without moving individual-level patient data or compromising local institutional control.
Without this contract, future cross platform analysis which are envisioned as a part of the MAHA Strategic Framework: Integration Platforms will be significantly slower, more manual, and inevitably more expensive. Prior pilots have shown that the upfront work using manual matching procedures to ensure the existence of a meaningful cohort is time consuming and does not always result in the ability to successfully conduct a study. This contract will eliminate that manual process and enable the rapid iteration of study design to ensure that meaningful cohorts can be found.
This replaces an FY 2026 small business contract request with a new FY 2027 full and open request due to failure of small business being able to provide services.
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