Updated November 30, 2020
Notice ID: HHS-NIH-NIDA-SOL-2021-001
Related Notice: NIH-NIDA-NIMH-PSOL-75N95021R00004
The Contractors shall independently provide scientific, operations, and professional administrative support services through a multiple award IDIQ contract to assist the NIH in meeting its operational objectives.
Only NIH ICs will be able to use this contract.
Task areas encompass and provide the following:
- clinical, basic, and translational research support;
- professional administrative support to research efforts involving human subjects, non-human subjects, and, non-living subjects; and
- facility operations, maintenance, engineering, and architecture support.
The support contemplated ranges to include, but is not limited to, the following:
- directly assisting in an experiment, laboratory, or a clinical setting, obtaining, compiling, or organizing data and writing reports;
- providing scientific or other professional analysis and advice;
- conducting or assisting in all publishing or other communications efforts related to the research;
- providing highly technical scientific IT services;
- management assistance;
- furnishing logistical or operational support or assistance; and
- With the exception of clerical level administrative support, any task which the agency requires to support research involving human subjects, non- human subjects, and, non-living subjects may be obtained under the contract.
Updated September 30, 2020
Notice ID: HHS-NIH-NIMH-NIDA-RFI-20-001
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) STARS Office has developed the STARS application which is an automated integrated digital solution, allowing increased collaboration with customers and stakeholders. The digital solution automates work across the NIMH STARS Office, Institute and Center (IC) Partners, current contract holder and sub-contractors, and the NIDA Office of Acquisition (OA).
The STARS application delivers a suite of tools to automate workflows and decision-making for vendor support of contractor roles and positions across NIH. This is enabled through an integrated module suite that was and developed as a single build on the Appian cloud platform…
There are six modules within the STARS application that require Web API integrations.
- The New Task Order module provides the capability for NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) to initiate a request to fill open positions (e.g. scientist, biologist, etc.) within NIH. Once the form wizard is completed it will follow an approval process through a workflow and must be approved by internal NIH employees (STOPS COR and NIDA OA) prior to being sent to the Vendor for final review. The Vendor then proceeds with the contractor onboarding process.
- The Task Order Revision module allows users to make revisions for submitted task orders in the case there is a necessary update. There are two ways a revision can be initiated, either by a STARS Office employee (government-initiated) or by the Vendor.
- The Funding Request module approves funding of a task order service requirements resourced by the Vendor based on the information completed in the form wizard during the New Task Order steps and approval workflow. The Funding Request module allows IC Customers to fund travel accounts by CAN, but the individual travel funds are handled through the actual Travel module when the travel is requested. The UI for this will include a single screen with a grid which allows users to select task order(s) to be funded. Once submitted this will initiate a workflow approval process…
Posted June 29, 2020
The upcoming SOAR requirement includes a digital process automation component and will necessitate that Vendors are able to successfully integrate with the NIH-developed web services. The web services will govern the lifecycle of requests against the SOAR contract, from the NIH requesting New Task Orders (TOs) through TO closure. In addition, travel requests, requests to address Contractor concerns, request to revise TOs, requests to exercise pre-negotiated options, and invoicing will be included in the planned integrations between NIH and future SOAR Vendors.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) STARS Office has developed the STARS application which is an automated integrated digital solution, allowing increased collaboration with customers and stakeholders. The digital solution automates work across the NIMH STARS Office, Institute and Center (IC) Partners, current contract holder and sub-contractors, and the NIDA Office of Acquisition (OA).
The STARS application delivers a suite of tools to automate workflows and decision-making for vendor support of contractor roles and positions across NIH. This is enabled through an integrated module suite that was and developed as a single build on the Appian cloud platform.
