Support for Development, Maintenance and Distribution of Identifiers for Research Resources to Serve Replicable, Reproducible and Generalizable Biomedical Research

The National Institutes of Health, through the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs and its logistics office, is seeking contractor support to develop, maintain, and distribute identifiers for research resources that help enable replicable, reproducible, and generalizable biomedical research. The work centers on maintaining existing research resource identifiers, integrating new resources such as human New Approach Methodologies, and building tools to track impact, improve search, identify gaps in model resources, and create a rigor and transparency index. The contractor should bring experience in web-based platforms, data analysis, ontologies, and community engagement, and the effort is planned as an 11-month base period with four 12-month options in Bethesda, Maryland. Proposals will be evaluated on technical approach, personnel qualifications and staffing, organizational capacity, past performance, and price under a best-value tradeoff where technical factors are more important than price. This RFQ is firm-fixed-price, was issued May 15, 2026 under solicitation number 75N98026Q00384, and responses are due June 1, 2026.