Procurement Summary
Country: USA
Summary: Annual Subscription of Chemical Abstracts Service Cas Biofinder Discovery Platform Software License
Deadline: 15 Jul 2026
Posting Date: 11 Jul 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 144933469
Document Ref. No.: NOI-REQT-OMAS-IT-2026-00119
Competition: ICB
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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Tender Details
Pre-Solicitation Notice - Notice of Intent to award on a Single Source Basis
Title: Notice of Intent to Award a Single Source Purchase Order for an annual subscription of a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) BioFinder Discovery Platform Software License, a computational platform that can predict thousands of biological targets for chemicals, is accessed via the Internet, and interfaces with CAS SciFinder, a database of over 100 million chemicals and already in use by the FDA.
Notice Number: NOI_REQT-OMAS-IT-202600119
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Division of Toxicology
Contracting Office: HHS - Office of Mission Acquisition Solutions
Product Service Code (PSC): OC code 6632 / PCS Code 10 (Analysis Instruments, Medical Laboratory Use)
NAICS Code: 513210 (Software Publishers)
Place of Performance: HHS/FDA, 8301 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, MD 20708
Set Aside: Not Applicable (Single Source)
Response Date: 07/15/2026 5:00 PM MST
Description
This is a Notice of Intent to negotiate on a sole source basis for a firm-fixed-price purchase order to American Chemical Society, 2540 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43202
HHS/FDA has a requirement for purchase of an annual software license. The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) BioFinder Discovery Platform is the only platform that meets all of the FDA Division of Toxicology's technical requirements for advancing food chemical safety research and implementing New Approach Methodologies (NAMs).
Period of Performance: 09/01/2026 - 08/31/2027
Requirement Details:
Prediction of biological targets for chemicals based on a training set of over 1 million compounds
Known and predicted quantitative binding and functional activity for at least 3, 600 targets
Target binding prediction by at least 6 independent methods (SAS, SAR, SIM, SEA, MLM, and XPI)
Confidence scores for predicted interactions using consensus approach
Metabol...
Notice ID: noi-reqt-omas-it-2026-00119
Department/Ind. Agency: health and human services, department of
Sub-tier: office of the assistant secretary for financial resources (asfr)
Office: omas strategic buying center - professional services
Product Service Code: 6632 - analysis instruments, medical laboratory use
NAICS Code: 513210 - Software Publishers
Inactive Dates: jul 30, 2026
Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date
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