Notice ID: 75N992-24-RFI-10001
Description
ARPA-H is currently operating within the NIH Business System (NBS) environment for general ledger, finance, budget, procurement, supply, travel, and property management system. However, in alignment with its commitment to enhancing operational efficiency and fulfilling our core mission, ARPA-H aims to transition away from NBS for all its Acquisition Lifecycle services. To achieve this objective, ARPA-H has a critical need for an end-to-end Acquisition Lifecycle Management System (ALMS) that will comprehensively support its acquisition activities.
ARPA-H seeks a contractor to procure, configure, implement, operate, provide training, and post go-live support for an end-to end cloud-based Acquisition Lifecycle Management System (ALMS) that leverages a commercially available, low code Platform as a Service (PaaS) that integrates ARPA-H’s capabilities related to core business functions through the entire acquisition lifecycle for a range of procurement methods, including both FAR and non-FAR acquisition vehicles. The Contractor shall ensure that the ALMS is architected to ensure performance, high availability, adaptability and configurability, scalability, compliance, security, user experience, and cost effectiveness. It is the intent of ARPA-H that the ALMS shall leverage Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning technology to the greatest extent possible to improve acquisition outcomes for the agency including but not limited to streamlining and eliminating repetitive and mechanical activities that are a part of solicitation creation, proposal evaluation, contact award, administration, and closeout…
