Contract · Federal · No Set aside used

The Data COUNTS™ (Collect Data Once, Use Numerous Times)

Agency: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Location: Bethesda, MD
Amount: Amount not listed
Posted: Sep 1, 2026
Set-aside: No Set aside used
NAICS code: 54151 - Computer Systems Design and Related Services (general category) look up NAICS codes
PSC code: DA10 - IT and Telecommunications (general category)

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Posted

Sep 1, 2026
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What this contract is for

Agency: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Location: Bethesda, MD
Set-aside: No Set aside used
NAICS: 54151 - Computer Systems Design and Related Services (general category)
Scope: Federal

Description This is a Request for Information (RFI).

This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or questions.

The purpose of this RFI is to obtain knowledge and information for project planning purposes.

The Government does not intend to award a contract on the basis of the RFI or otherwise pay for the information requested.

Responses will be treated as information only and not as a proposal.

The NIH seeks information on technologies and capabilities to further the objectives of the Data COUNTS program.

The Data COUNTS™ (Collect Data Once, Use Numerous Times) effort is built on collaboration between patients and advocates, government, health systems, technology companies, and the private sector.

The Data COUNTS program enables the NIH’s Real-World Data initiative and will provide high quality, standardized data that is provenanced and available through approved access to the research community.

The contemplated capability will initially perform requested and approved extraction from Healthcare Partner EMR systems and should be modular and extensible to other authorized source systems such as laboratory information systems, pharmacy information systems, picture archiving and communication systems, vendor-neutral archives, and specialty systems.

The Data COUNTS program requires that source data, and source provenance metadata, permissions, and source ontology fields will be preserved without modification or loss.

This program will not create or standardize ontology mappings.

Technical Requirements of Interest: Address availability and technologies that enable the following features: A durable, Healthcare Partner Leave Behind Technology capability that remains at the Healthcare Partner site after contract completion and can be operated by trained staff without ongo...

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