US-FED-00000386998 - Title: Electronic Lab Notebook Software Workflow Integration - Deadline July 27,2026

SOLE SOURCE NOTICE OF INTENTTitle: Electronic Lab Notebook Software Workflow IntegrationSolicitation/Reference Number: 26–000455Posted Date: 7/17/26Response Date: 7/27/26PSC Code: DA01 IT and Telecom Development Support ServicesNAICS Code: 541519 – Other Computer Related Services1.0 DESCRIPTIONThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Mission Acquisition Solutions (OMAS) on behalf of National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Division of Intramural Research Programs (DIRP), Data Science and Sharing Team (DSST), intends to procure on a sole source basis, specialized services to extend the DSST–developed LabAPI and ArchiveFlow open–source software stack into a production–ready web application. The application will connect Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) records to downstream scientific data pipelines, including Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) data packaging, DANDI Archive uploads, and structured directory management for NIMH investigators.OpenTeams:8656 W Highway 71 Bldg F200Austin, Texas78735–8373This acquisition will be processed under FAR Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services and will be made pursuant to the authority at 41 U.S.C. 1901, utilizing simplified procedures in accordance with RFO 12.201–1. Competition is being restricted in accordance with RFO FAR 12.102(a), based on the Contracting Officer`s determination that only one source is available to meet the Government`s requirements. The North American Industry Classification System code is 541519 and the business size standard is $34 Million.The following is the requirement for the solicitation number: 26–000455Professional IT services will be utilized by DSST to:Design and implement a production–quality browser–based front end for ArchiveFlow that replaces the existing Streamlit and R Shiny prototypes.Provide professional UX/UI design for the resulting application covering authentication into a configured ELN, project and notebook browsing, experiment–record parsing and curation, directory monitoring, status tracking through preprocessing/analysis, NWB packaging, and DANDI upload.Generalize the data–schema layer beyond the Tejeda–lab fiber–photometry case to additional NIMH microscopy/imaging modalities specified by DSST during the period of performance. Schemas shall remain Pydantic–validated and round–trip cleanly with the ELN backends.Treat labapi and elabftw–app as interchangeable ELN backends behind a single pluggable interface so that the front end can target either LabArchives or eLabFTW without per–deployment forks.