The solicitation is for support in evaluating and conducting computational and alternative toxicological methods for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The acquisition is a 100% set-aside for small businesses. Proposals must be submitted electronically via the NIH ECPS website by December 19, 2025. The contract type is anticipated to be a cost-reimbursement, level-of-effort contract with a base period and nine option years. The government will evaluate proposals based on cost and non-cost factors, with technical factors being significantly more important than cost. The solicitation includes mandatory qualification criteria, including compliance with Section 508 standards and a data management and sharing plan. Questions must be submitted by October 20, 2025. The government may award a contract without discussions. The contract will include clauses applicable to the selected offeror's organization and type of contract awarded. The government intends to award a contract to the responsible offeror whose proposal represents the best value.
The proposal is to be delivered electronically via the NIH Electronic Contract Proposal Submission (ECPS) website, https:www. ecps. nih. gov. If your proposal is not received by the contracting officer or his designee at the place and time specified in section l. 3 of the rfp, then it will be considered late and handled in accordance with subparagraph c3 of far provision ****, instructions to offerors competitive acquisition, hhsar provision ****, late proposals and revisions located in section l of this solicitation.
The contractor must submit invoices to the Department of Treasury's Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) at https:www. ipp. gov with a copy of the invoice to the approving official, as directed below. Additionally, the contractor must submit a copy of the electronic invoice to the following approving official contracting officer and contracting officer representative: official: contracting officer tbd email address contracting officer representative tbd email address.
The government intends to award a contract or contracts resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offerors whose proposals represents the best value after evaluation in accordance with the factors and subfactors in the solicitation.
Offerors are solicited only from small business concerns. The procurement is to be awarded only to one or more such concerns, organizations, or individuals.
Questions must be submitted in writing via email to secondary contact: ***@***. *. * and ***@***. *. * in lisa schaupp, section chief, accordance with article l. 2. , by october 20, 2025.
The total estimated amount of the contract represented by the sum of the estimated cost plus the fixed fee for the base period is tbd.