Shayna Simpson

Shayna Simpson serves as a key procurement professional within the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, where she manages complex research and technology acquisitions aligned with NIDA’s mission to advance scientific understanding of substance use disorders. She specializes in securing software-based solutions and digital tools that support neurobiological and behavioral research, clinical trial management, and data analytics platforms. Her acquisitions directly enable the translation of laboratory findings into scalable public health applications, with a strong emphasis on high-impact, technology-driven research infrastructure. She routinely handles full and open competitions for software development, data science platforms, and research support systems, ensuring alignment with federal acquisition regulations and scientific integrity standards. Shayna Simpson maintains longstanding relationships with leading academic and research institutions, including The McLean Hospital Corporation, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, the University of Miami, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. These partnerships reflect a pattern of collaborating with elite research entities that possess deep expertise in addiction science, neuroimaging, and behavioral analytics. Her procurement approach prioritizes institutions with proven capacity to deliver mission-critical software and data systems, often through cooperative agreements and research contracts that integrate scientific rigor with technical compliance. Shayna Simpson’s contracting activity is exclusively conducted under full and open competition, with no set-asides for 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or other socioeconomic categories. This reflects a strategic focus on technical capability and scientific merit over socioeconomic preferences, consistent with NIDA’s research-driven acquisition culture. While small businesses are not formally targeted, qualified vendors of all sizes compete equally based on technical merit and domain expertise. Her primary procurement focus is on NAICS 513210 (Software Publishers), indicating a concentrated effort to acquire custom and commercial-off-the-shelf software solutions for data management, machine learning applications, clinical research platforms, and behavioral assessment tools. She specializes in procuring advanced digital infrastructure that supports large-scale neuroscience research, real-time data collection, and interoperable health information systems.