Notice of Intent for Nihncats Rdcrn Pantheon Tender - 148483980

Procurement Summary

Country: USA

Summary: Notice of Intent for Nihncats Rdcrn Pantheon Licenses and Support Renewal

Deadline: 08 Sep 2026

Posting Date: 03 Sep 2026

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 148483980

Document Ref. No.: PCA-NCATS-08266

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

Tender Value: Refer Document

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THIS IS A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT, NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE QUOTES. A REQUEST FOR QUOTE (RFQ) WILL NOT BE ISSUED AND QUOTES WILL NOT BE REQUESTED.
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) intends to award a firm fixed price sole source contract under the authority of FAR 12.102(a), only one source being available to meet the Government's needs, to:
Carahsoft Technology Corp
11493 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 100
Reston, VA 20190
NCATS hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order for the renewal of the existing Pantheon Platform Licenses and Support which includes associated maintenance, upgrades, and technical support, for a twelve (12) month period of performance commencing within thirty (30) days of award.
Pantheon is required as the specified brand name because the RDCRN consortia websites and the network site (www.rarediseasenetwork.org) were built on and are currently hosted within the Pantheon platform, and the renewal continues an established production environment whose configuration, versioning history, automated backups, and Drupal upgrade cadence are natively integrated into Pantheon's proprietary infrastructure. This is not a new requirement. Although this contract is now expired, the requirement remains current and ongoing. Continued access to the platform is necessary to avoid interruption to established scientific and informatics workflows that support NCATS research.
The platform's specific capabilities—Multidev on-demand development environments, Autopilot automated updates with visual regression testing, Custom Upstreams for template-based site creation, 24/7 technical support, and optional WordPress Multisite support available only on the Gold plan—are proprietary to Pantheon and cannot be replicated by an alternate vendor without migrating all consortia sites, rebuilding development ...
Notice ID: pca-ncats-08266

Department/Ind. Agency: health and human services, department of

Sub-tier: office of the assistant secretary for administration (asa)

Product Service Code: 7a21 - it and telecom - business application software (perpetual license software)

NAICS Code: 541519 - Other Computer Related Services

Inactive Dates: sep 23, 2026

Inactive Policy: 15 days after response date

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