NCSS - Onboarding NHLBI to NEI OpenSpecimen
NIH’s Office of the Director, Office of Acquisitions, intends a non-competitive, firm-fixed-price purchase order to Krishagni LLC to onboard NHLBI to NEI’s existing OpenSpecimen biobanking software instance and implement associated EMR integration services. Competition is restricted to Krishagni LLC because the requirement is to join NEI’s active Krishagni-licensed and operated OpenSpecimen environment rather than procure a separate standalone biobanking system. The notice states that another biobanking product would not satisfy the requirement and would cause substantial duplication of licensing, implementation, validation, and support costs plus unacceptable operational delays. Krishagni is identified as the software developer, proprietor, operator, and only responsible source authorized and technically capable of performing the onboarding, workflow configuration, and EMR integration within the shared platform. The applicable NAICS code is 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services) with a $34.0 million small business size standard, and the requirement is not set aside for small business.