Research Code & Data Hosting Infrastructure

The contract seeks to establish a secure, persistent hosting infrastructure for research code and datasets, ensuring long-term accessibility and integrity. The system must support version control to track iterative changes, embed rich metadata to enhance discoverability and contextual understanding, and reliably assign Digital Object Identifiers to each asset for permanent citation and linking. Integration with the publication platform is required to enable seamless submission, validation, and public access of research outputs directly from the hosting environment, streamlining the workflow for researchers and ensuring compliance with funder mandates for transparency and reproducibility. The infrastructure must operate with high availability and robust security protocols suitable for sensitive or restricted research data, maintained under the oversight of the National Institutes of Health through the Department of Health and Human Services. Performance is expected to be centered in Bethesda, Maryland, with the system designed to meet federal standards for data preservation and digital stewardship. The opportunity is posted as a subcontract under NAICS code 518210 with a response deadline of August 27, 2026, and is open to entities capable of delivering scalable, reliable, and compliant hosting services aligned with NIH’s broader goals for open science and research data management.