Contract · Federal

Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Subscription Licensing and Deployment Support

Agency: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Location: Bethesda, MD
Amount: Amount not listed
Posted: Sep 10, 2026
Set-aside: None (open competition)
NAICS code: 513210 - Software Publishers look up NAICS codes
PSC code: 7A21

Timeline

Posted

Sep 10, 2026
Status

Closing soon

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est. $36K

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What this contract is for

Agency: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Location: Bethesda, MD
NAICS: 513210 - Software Publishers
Scope: Federal

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center (CC), Office of Purchasing and Contracts, intends to award a sole-source firm-fixed-price purchase order to Trilogy Innovations, Inc. for Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) software subscriptions and associated deployment support.

The requirement includes 40 Core Band subscriptions of Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine, Premium, Confirmed Stateside Support (SKU MW01016) and six Physical or Virtual Nodes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server with Satellite, Premium (SKU RH00008).

The subscriptions include Premium Confirmed Stateside Support and are transferable within NIH's internal infrastructure.

In addition to the software subscriptions, Trilogy Innovations will provide up to 20 hours of expert-level engineering services to support the initial deployment and configuration of Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine within the NIH environment.

Services include installation, initial configuration and system readiness, operationalization of the environment for NIH workloads, identification of technical gaps and requirements necessary to support PAS-X onboarding and production readiness, review of the NIH PAS-X OKE environment architecture, and knowledge transfer and configuration documentation, as required.

This acquisition is required to support the NIH Clinical Center's transition from paper-based processes and the unsupported StemLab application to the PAS-X application.

The current StemLab application has not been supported by its vendor since June 2022.

The Clinical Center must comply with strict manufacturing, documentation, and reporting requirements, including requirements applicable to the manufacture and distribution of human cells, tissues, and cellular and tissue-based produ...

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