SOURCES SOUGHT
70 -- NCATS Collaborative Scientific Platform as a Service - Technical Solution Requirements
- Notice Date
- 5/10/2018
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 511210
— Software Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 4211, MSC 9559, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-9559, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20892-9559
- Solicitation Number
- NIHDA201800196
- Point of Contact
- Stuart G. Kern, Phone: 3014023334
- E-Mail Address
-
stuart.kern@nih.gov
(stuart.kern@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Technical Solution Requirements This is a Small Business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources; (2) whether they are small businesses; HUBZone small businesses; service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses; 8(a) small businesses; veteran-owned small businesses; woman-owned small businesses; or small disadvantaged businesses; and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your responses to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable NAICS code should not submit a response to this notice. This notice is issued to help determine the availability of qualified companies technically capable of meeting the Government's requirement and to determine the method of acquisition. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will not be considered as proposals or quotes. No award will be made as a result of this notice. The Government will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by the respondents to this notice. This notice is strictly for research and information purposes only. Background: The mission of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is to get more treatments to more patients more rapidly. Critical to this mission is the ability to manage data, generate insights, and foster collaboration across National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes and Centers and with external partners such as research hospitals, academic institutions, and industry stakeholders. NIH, NCATS, and NCATS collaborators are among the world's leading researchers, and they have access to large, cutting-edge data sources. Yet an increasingly complex challenge exists to translate these disparate, ever-evolving data sets into actionable insights that accelerate the pace of science and clinical development. Tools are needed to enable teams to ask complex, multi-faceted questions and to collaborate more seamlessly and securely across various teams. NCATS has conducted a pilot project to evaluate integrated management of large and disparate data using the Foundry software platform from Palantir, Inc., and has determined that using a sophisticated collaborative platform to integrate, manage, secure, and analyze the data used within NCATS will provide substantial support to our scientific mission. Purpose and Objectives: Provide a collaborative scientific platform as a service (PaaS) to integrate, manage, secure, and analyze NCATS data. Project requirements: 1. A commercial software solution deployable on day one of the project and that can be configured within expedited timelines. 2. An open data architecture, where data always remains under the full control of NCATS and can be easily exported in open, non-proprietary data formats via open APIs. The software should be built on an open, distributed microservices architecture with open, well-documented REST APIs that are designed to seamlessly interface with other systems, adapt to meet evolving needs, and avoid system lock-in. 3. Proven data integration capabilities, including the ability to rapidly ingest unprocessed high-throughput drug screening (HTS) outputs, genomic data (including DNA sequencing, RNA-Seq, miRNA, etc.), mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, and other data types used in basic and translational biosciences research. 4. The ability to maintain data and scientific provenance and reproducibility of all integrated data sources where every resource (dataset, analysis, code, plot, report) contains provenance, metadata, and can be both traced back to the exact version of all upstream dependencies, and where the dependency tree can be easily replayed given new data or updated analysis logic, while still retaining prior versions and branches. 5. Dynamic data model, object-based search/discoverability and analysis workflows, allowing easy definition of objects, properties, and links that propagate from a source table, and provide natural ways to move between tabular and object-oriented interfaces and data analyses. 6. Intuitive, highly configurable user interfaces that have been effectively utilized by technical bioinformaticians, cheminformaticians, and data scientists, as well as less technical biologists, chemists, and other scientists. 7. Ability to perform advanced analytics and informatics in a user's preferred coding language, as well as in non-code-based point and click tools, all within the same environment. 8. Collaboration capabilities enabling teams comprising of a range of technical and less technical roles to work seamlessly and concurrently on the same data, build on insights, merge similar analytical paths, and track progress in one place. 9. Ability to scale flexibly with increasing users, data, and pipeline complexity, while providing fine-grained ways to adjust resource consumption. Proven ability to scale up to thousands of users (including thousands of potential outside collaborators globally), petabytes of raw and processed data, daily updates in the terabytes, and complex bioinformatic pipelines requiring processing components developed in a variety of languages and environments. 10. Proven granular, security controls with the ability for data owners to easily control all downstream uses of the originating data, and the ability to conform to NCATS security policies. 11. Proven interoperability with NCATS current IT investment landscape, and includes omnipresent APIs and plugin points that allow the system to keep up with the changing needs of NCATS, and support both third-party software and other analytic applications. NCATS also requires the ability to independently develop new configurations, plugins, integrations, and extensions to meet new and unforeseen needs and interface with external systems. Anticipated period of performance: The period of performance will be one year, with two one-year option periods. Other important considerations: Detailed technical requirements are provided in the attached Technical Solution Requirements document. These will be mandatory requirements in any solicitation that is issued. Capability statement /information sought. Respondents should provide a capability statement that addresses the project requirements listed above, with particular attention to the description of the respondent's commercial solution; information regarding respondent's experience in providing a complex, integrated commercial solution; and general estimates regarding the length of time required to implement the solution. Respondents need not address the Technical Solution Requirements in their capability statement; however, as noted, these requirements will be mandatory in any solicitation that is issued. The respondent must also provide their DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contact, and size and type of business (e.g., 8(a), HubZone, etc., pursuant to the applicable NAICS code and any other information that may be helpful in developing or finalizing the acquisition requirements. One (1) copy of the response is required and must be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format using 11-point or 12-point font, 8-1/2" x 11" paper size, with 1" top, bottom, left and right margins, and with single or double spacing. The information submitted must be must be in an outline format that addresses each of the elements of the project requirement listed above and in the capability statement /information sought paragraphs stated herein. A cover page and an executive summary may be included but is not required. The response is limited to ten (10) pages not including a cover page or executive summary. The response must include the respondents' technical and administrative points of contact, including names, titles, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. All responses to this notice must be submitted electronically to the Contract Specialist listed below. Facsimile responses are NOT accepted. The response must be submitted to Stuart Kern, Contract Specialist, at stuart.kern@nih.gov, telephone 301-402-3334, and reference notice number NIHDA201800196. The response must be received on or before May 21, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. "Disclaimer and Important Notes: This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a presolicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation. Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s)."
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, 9800 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, United States
- Zip Code: 20850
- Zip Code: 20850
- Record
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