NIH FY2023 Small Business Program Office Outreach Activities

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Program Office serves as a counsel and advocate for small businesses at the NIH and represents NIH to the small business industry.

FUNCTIONS

• Provides technical assistance to the NIH acquisition community.


• Represents NIH at various small business outreach events.


• Advises the NIH Head of the Contracting Activity (HCA) on small business matters relating to the NIH.


• Promotes the use of Small and Disadvantaged (SDB), Women-Owned (WOSB), Historically Under-Utilized Business Zone (HUBZone) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SBVOSB) Small Businesses for NIH contract awards


• Supports the utilization of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) for NIH contract and grant awards.


• Participates in training, counseling sessions, and industry day events.

Additionally, housed in the Small Business Program Office are the following Initiatives, the Path to Excellence and Innovation (PEI 2.0) Initiative and the NIH HUBZone Consortium. The PEI Initiative is a tremendous opportunity for the National Institutes of Health to work more collaboratively with Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The mission of the PEI Initiative is to empower HBCUs with the knowledge, resources, and skills they need to effectively and consistently compete for and win contracts from the National Institutes of Health and thereby diversify revenue streams and create more research opportunities for those academic institutions. While the NIH HUBZone Consortium is committed to developing a common understanding of the capabilities that HUBZone firms can offer to achieve the NIH’s mission of enhancing the health of all Americans.

Please refer below for a listing of outreach activities for FY2023.

• April 2023 Vendor Outreach Engagement: The Mission of OLAO is to provide quality acquisition and logistics support through the use of innovative contracts, services and products, supporting the National Institutes of Health research community and other federal agencies in an efficient and economical manner. Our three divisions: 1. NITAAC, 2. Office of Acquisitions, and 3. Logistics, can assist you with IT products and services, R&D contracting, GWACs, small purchasing, buying a product from the supply store, and property management. We have the expertise, experience, and customer service skills to help you, the customer, solve your acquisition, contracting, and logistical needs and requirements.The Vision of OLAO is to be the preeminent 'go-to' provider of quality acquisition and logistics services to enable federal agencies to accomplish their missions by providing customized solutions. OLAO delivers:


• Customer focused care


• Cradle to grave acquisition support


• Knowledgeable contracting officers


• Efficiency through the use of Best Practices including Lean Six Sigma


• Highly qualified and diverse contractor base


• March 2023 Vendor Outreach Engagement: The Frederick National Laboratory addresses some of the most urgent challenges in the biomedical sciences. FNL works at the forefront of basic, translational, and clinical science with a focus on cancer, AIDS, and infectious disease. We operate in the public interest as a shared national resource and collaborate with public and private partners to discover and innovate to improve human health. U.S. biomedical investigators rely on the Frederick National Laboratory to further their research goals. We offer access to a suite of advanced biomedical technologies, provide selected science and technology services, and maintain vast repositories of materials for use by the research community.


• October 2022 Vendor Outreach Engagement: This month's session will highlight the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The mission of NIEHS is to discover how the environment affects people to promote healthier lives. The studies conducted at NIEHS are often long-term and high-risk in nature and involve unique components, such as epidemiological studies of environmentally associated diseases, toxicological testing of environmental substances, and intervention and prevention studies to reduce the effects of exposures to hazardous environments.