Contract · Federal · No Set aside used

Notice of Intent for NIH/NCATS Rocky Linux Subscription Renewal

Agency: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION (ASA)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Amount: Amount not listed
Posted: Jul 27, 2026
Set-aside: No Set aside used
NAICS code: 541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services look up NAICS codes
PSC code: 7A21

Timeline

Posted

Jul 27, 2026
Status

Closing soon

What contracts like this typically pay

est. $201K-$2.1M

Estimated from 29 similar past awards in Maryland, NAICS 541511.

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What this contract is for

Agency: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATION (ASA)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Set-aside: No Set aside used
NAICS: 541511 - Custom Computer Programming Services
Scope: Federal

THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT, NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES.

A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND QUOTES WILL NOT BE REQUESTED.

The National Institute of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) intends to award a firm fixed price sole source contract under the authority of FAR 12.102(a), only one source being available to meet the Government's needs, to: CIQ, Inc.

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Suite 302 Reno, NV 89502 The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order for a Rocky Linux Subscription Renewal.

Rocky Linux is a free Linux-based open-source enterprise operating system, a downstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHEL.

This request is to renew the license subscription and get high-level technical support for this operating system.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this requirement is 541511.

NCATS has several systems that use Linux-based operating systems, opposed to Microsoft Windows or Mac OS systems from Apple.

The High-Performance Computing cluster at NCATS is a Linux-based system which uses Rocky Linux as operating system.

As Rocky Linux is a free operating system, the required high-level support is to ensure availability of the NCATS HPC cluster.

The support for the operating system used on the NCATS HPC cluster is in support for scientific computing and a requirement to move forward with scientific analysis to be done using the HPC cluster, i.e., imaging analysis data processing, N3C data processing, Multi-Omics, Virtual Screening, Protein Folding, Docking, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, etc.

The period of performance will be for one (1) 12-month base period.

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