SOAR contract renewal option - NHGRI-210332 - Management Analyst - OSD - 7/13/26 to 9/12/26

This task order is essential to and aligns with the HHS mandate to promote public health through crucial assistance to the technology transfer office whose work is mandated by federal statues, including 35 USC 200-212 (patent statues) and 15 USC 3710 (Federal Technology Transfer Act). Technology transfer office supports all scientists and clinicians of the Institute, thus the task order work aids all intramural laboratories of the Institute with all their research and ensures full use and legal protection of Government's investment in research and development. The work and duties of this task order are similar to those of a paralegal professional; these include -

- Assistance with financial tracking of funds due and received by all Institute intramural investigators from Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) including direct work with the financial management branch tracking expenditures and expiration dates to ensure funds are spent appropriately and on time.

- NIH-wide technology transfer database maintenance, data entry, and data verification/clean-up activities to make sure that all such legal agreements are properly recorded and tracked.

- Tracking of All of Us program users (entries and roll-offs) for all of the Institute.

- Assistance with administrative and procurement duties (not decision-making) for patent task orders and invoices and working with vendors on payment issues (thus various aspects of procurement related to patent rights), contributing to obtaining rights in federally-supported inventions for the Government. Per current NIH guidance, technology transfer procurement activities are approved to continue.

- Preparation of annual reports, including budgets and agreement tracking.

- All purchase order and travel entries for technology transfer office of the Institute.

Without this position, work of the institute's technology transfer office would drastically slow down and various clinical and non-clinical collaborations of investigators with outside parties (both private and academic) would be delayed. Patent prosecution tasks would also be delayed, which could results in additional fees Institute could incur due for late patent filings. Technology transfer team would need to train, learn, and assume this individual's duties, thus taking away from their statutory work on all technology transfer matters, including collaboration agreements, licensing, and intellectual property matters.

Loss of this contract would be a loss of time and investment already made by the Institute and its technology transfer team.