NIH NICHD Sources Sought: OER SEED Program Evaluation Support Services

Notice ID: NIH-Program-Evaluation

The Small Business Education and Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) office supports the NIH innovator community in their efforts to validate the potential health impacts of promising scientific discoveries and advance them into healthcare products that improve patient care and enhance health. Developing products across the biomedical spectrum requires NIH’s collaboration with universities and research institutions, small businesses, trade associations and societies, angel investors, venture capitalists, and strategic partners. SEED leads initiatives that develop these relationships and build opportunities for NIH innovators to further their product development efforts.

SEED’s core business objectives are to provide services that enable investigators to convert scientific discoveries into impactful healthcare solutions, coordinate early-stage product development activities across the NIH, inspire and support a diverse entrepreneurial workforce, and demonstrate NIH’s role in improving patient care and driving economic growth.

The scope of this contract is to provide professional expertise and technical support of the programs and initiatives managed by the SEED office. This includes business process consulting, automation, and engineering; identifying metrics of success, then collecting and analyzing programmatic data; and providing formal evaluations and reports as needed in association with any Federal, Departmental, or Agency-wide mandates or initiatives as it relates to SEED programs.

The contractor shall:

• Provide for the overall management, integration, and coordination of all contract activities, including the management and coordination of activities carried out under any sub-contracts;
• Provide a technical and administrative infrastructure to ensure the efficient planning, initiation, implementation, and timely completion of all tasks carried out under this contract for in-person, virtual, or hybrid events and effective communications with the SEED Technical Monitor (TM), COR and CO;
• Provide a Senior-Level Project Manager with expertise in biomedical innovation targeted towards the life science community, with responsibility for overall task management and communications, tracking, monitoring, and reporting on task status and progress, and recommending modifications to task requirements (as within scope) and timelines, including tasks undertaken by sub-contractors;
• Meet bi-monthly with the COR and TM to discuss and review planning, quality control issues, delivery schedules, and costs/budget matters as necessary. The contractor shall be responsible for documenting any action items. In addition, the contractor, in collaboration with the COR and SEED TM, shall determine any necessary changes to the frequency of these meetings throughout the life of this contract.

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