This solicitation notice follows a RFI/Sources Sought notice that was released on December 22, 2022 under notice number
NIH-NIEHS-2022-RFI-SS-AARC and pre-solicitation notice posted October 16, 2023.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is a multidisciplinary research institution with the primary mission to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives. NIEHS focuses on basic science, disease-oriented research, global environmental and population health, clinical research, and multidisciplinary training for researchers. The mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of human illness and disability by understanding how the environment influences the development and progression of human disease. In-house research at NIEHS is conducted by investigators in the Division of the Translational Toxicology (DTT) and the Division of Intramural Research (DIR).

The NIEHS intends to negotiate and award a contract for research support services in a central, searchable location for storage, management and maintenance of data, hard copy study materials, and biological and environmental samples--e.g., wet-tissue preserved or fixed in formalin, formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks, histological glass slides, frozen tissue, biological and environmental samples, film (e.g., Kodachrome) slides, digital (still) images, digital whole-slide scans, analog and electronic data, and microfiche.