About this opportunity
AI summaryThe National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering seeks capability statements from qualified sources to establish an Innovation Funnel Coordination Center. The centralized center will manage daily operations to accelerate novel diagnostic and monitoring technologies, including proposal solicitation, IT and information security systems, proposal evaluations, and project management for 10 to 20 projects annually. All qualified sources may respond. Interested parties must submit electronic capability statements via email to Noelle DeCenzo and Melanie Suarez in MS Word or PDF format by December 4, 2026, at 12:00 PM ET. Submissions must not exceed five pages, excluding CVs and past performance appendices, and must use at least a 12-point font.
Scope of work
- Provide standard operating procedures for internal workflows
- Provide IT systems and support for soliciting, receiving, tracking, reviewing, and managing project proposals
- Provide IS systems to safeguard sensitive business information
- Provide expertise across technical, clinical, and business domains related to medical devices and diagnostics
- Provide support to evaluate proposal submissions, develop evaluation criteria, draft review templates, and convene expert review panels
- Consolidate reviewer feedback and provide funding recommendations to the NIH
- Convene project management teams consisting of individuals with product development experience in industry
- Provide tracking and continual evaluation of project milestones, progress, and accomplishments
Minimum qualifications
- Documented experience with similar large-scale project requirements in which organization and proposed personnel participated over past three years
- Demonstrated established in-house IT System for proposal submission, review, and tracking
- Demonstrated established Information Security practices to protect proposals, reviews, and tracking information
- Demonstrated ability to complete proposal evaluations for 100 applicants within 60 calendar days after receipt without conflict of interest
- Demonstrated ability to manage 10-20 projects during a 12-month period
Documents to include with your response
- Capability Statement
- List of projects for the past three years
- CVs of technical and medical experts, entrepreneurs and business experts, and other personnel
- Description of general and specific facilities and equipment currently available including computer equipment and software
- Company details including Name, Address, Website, Point of Contact Name, Email, and Phone Number
- Applicable current GSA Schedule Contracts
- Type of Company as shown in SAM
- UEI number
- Appendix for CVs and past performance
Key dates
- Responses due
- December 4, 2026, at 12PM ET
How to submit
- Method
- electronically (via email)
- Instructions
- Submit in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to the Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer. Maximum 5 pages excluding CVs and past performance, minimum 12-point font size.
Contract details
- Funding
- NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Initiative
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- 75N98027R00016
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Buying office
- National Institutes of Health › National Institutes of Health Olao
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Dec 4, 2026, 12:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 3, 2026
- NAICS
- 541618 · Other Management Consulting Services
- Product/service code
- R410
- Contracting contact
- SUAREZ, MELANIE D
melanie.suarez@nih.gov
+1 000 000 0000
Source: SAM.gov. Read the official notice for the complete description and current instructions.
Incumbent and award research
No incumbent history found for this requirement. The notice does not cite a current contract, and no earlier award from this buying office matches it.
Market context
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