Notice ID NIAID-RFQ-21-2076937
“The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Division of AIDS (DAIDS), is requesting to procure the Decision Lens Accelerate as the following:
Quantity 1 – DLX Pilot License for a 6-month period
Quantity 1 – DLX License for 6-month period as a option – Decision Lens Accelerate that is to include continuous planning capabilities and resource/budget allocation…”
“The DAIDS Science Planning and Operations Branch (SPOB) is responsible for, among other things, facilitating integrated cross-program strategic planning and evaluation activities; facilitating and coordinating the scientific initiative planning and development process for the Division, which includes planning, developing and coordinating the DAIDS annual and strategic budget process. DAIDS has a continuing requirement for a comprehensive and collaborative product for prioritization and resource optimization related to its scientific grants portfolio. The previous related requirement called for a solution that utilizes Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP) and genetic algorithms for decision making. The current purchase order for that requirement supports prioritization initiatives to ensure grant investments across the Scientific Programs are directed to the highest value areas. With that responsibility comes additional budget management, tracking and prioritization needs, related to both awarded grant programs and to related scientific portfolios. Now that DAIDS has some mature evaluation and prioritization projects there is a requirement to build on those individual projects with the incorporation of strategic cost considerations, which could then be integrated into a collaborative Division-level budget tracking and prioritization system. Decision Lens Accelerate incorporates analytical budgeting and planning tools that allow for continuous resource monitoring, and for DAIDS this will be used to incorporate both projected and actual costs as a prioritization criterion, or as a Division-level resource scenario planning module. The license will allow for unlimited user use within the scope described. The solution must: 1. Be a FedRAMP Compliant Cloud Service Provider (CSP), 2. Allow an interface to easily import data into a model/project, 3. Allow for data export to Excel spreadsheets, 4. Allow for an option to create multiple resource scenarios, and 5. Allow for multiple permission-based users to collaborate on a model/project. No other brand of scientific software would satisfy the governments need. To make changes and use another software package at this stage would be detrimental to the existing data that has already been obtained using the Decision Lens software package (FedRAMP compliant cloud service provider) …”
