Small Business, Aspera Technologies beat out 8 other bidders to win a 43-month, $6M contract to provide software asset management to the National Institutes of Health. The contract was awarded as a small business set-aside.
Awardee Name: ASPERA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Contract Duration: 43 months
Total Contract Value: $5,516,913.34
Funding Agency: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Number of Bidders: 9
RFP ID: 75N97019Q00066
Award ID: 75N97020P00034
“The National Library of Medicine is seeking to acquire Information Technology (IT) services under a single enterprise contract to support the acquisition and lifecycle management of commodity software at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).”
“NIH will acquire external subject matter expertise from the Contractor (responding this the Request for Proposal and awarded the subsequent contract) to implement tools and processes that will collect detailed knowledge of NIH software. The data will then be used to develop recommendations for a variety of business decisions related to software.”
“The Contractor will assist government decision makers with recommendations regarding NIH usage, license negotiation, costs, allocation/re-allocation, and technical architecture.”
“The data collected by the Contractor will be passed onto the Procurement and Governance component (external to the Contractor but part of OCIO and CIT) so that contracting officers can negotiate better pricing, which will have the most impact on the balance sheets of those who purchase commonly-used and high cost software.”
