About this opportunity
AI summaryThe National Institutes of Health seeks capability statements from qualified small businesses to provide research and development services for the EmbraceHEALTH Clinical Research Network. Contractors will support foundational start-up activities, protocol development, clinical trial execution compliant with FDA and Good Clinical Practice standards, participant safety procedures, and data management. Scope also encompasses study implementation, biospecimen handling, coordination with community advisory groups, transition planning, and study close-out reporting. Only small businesses under NAICS code 541715 with 1,000 or fewer employees are eligible to respond, including SB, SDB, WOSB, HUBZone, VOSB, and SDVOSB entities. Qualified respondents must submit their capability statements electronically in PDF format via email to Jordan Neal by 4:00 PM Eastern on Thursday, November 19, 2026. The submission must detail technical experience, facilities, small business status, administrative points of contact, and commercial availability insights.
Scope of work
- Core research operations and project management
- Research regulatory compliance and training
- Governance and oversight structure establishment
- Research infrastructure and personnel staffing
- Protocol development and study preparation
- Data management infrastructure and EHR data harmonization
- Biospecimen infrastructure collection, storage, and transfer
- Study implementation, close-out, and resource transition
Minimum qualifications
- Small business status under NAICS code 541715 with 1,000 employees or less
- Demonstrated experience designing, conducting, and completing clinical and behavioral intervention studies in real-world healthcare settings
- Requisite facilities, clinical partnerships, and infrastructure accessing ambulatory healthcare settings and disparity populations
- Expertise in clinical research methodology, clinical specialties, biostatistics, implementation science, data science, and informatics
- Capabilities for EHR extraction, common data elements, data harmonization, and secure data and biospecimen transfer
Documents to include with your response
- Written capability statement
- Company Name
- Unique Entity ID from SAM.gov
- Physical Address
- Technical and administrative Point of Contact Information
- Small business status and socioeconomic designations
Key dates
- Response Date
- 4:00PM (Eastern) Thursday November 19, 2026
How to submit
- Method
- Electronic via email
- Instructions
- Submit in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to the Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer referencing Notice Number 75N94027R00002.
Contract details
- Term
- approximately five years
- Set-aside / preference
- Small Business Sources Sought
- Place of performance
- United States and its territories
Federal notice details
- Solicitation number
- 75N94027R00002
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Buying office
- National Institutes of Health › National Institutes of Health Nichd
- Notice type
- Sources Sought
- Responses due
- Nov 19, 2026, 4:00 PM ET
- Posted on SAM.gov
- Nov 4, 2026
- NAICS
- 541715 · Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product/service code
- AN12
- Place of performance
- Bethesda, MD
- Contracting contact
- NEAL, JORDAN
jordan.neal@nih.gov - Additional contact
- WHITE, GANNON P
gannon.white@nih.gov
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
Awards in the same category (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)). This is not this requirement's award history.
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Source: USAspending.gov federal award data (U.S. federal public data). A contract is called the incumbent only when the notice or its documents cite it by number.