Notice of Intent for NIH/NCATS ChemAxon Licenses Renewal

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) intends to award a firm‑fixed‑price, sole‑source contract to ChemAxon LLC for the renewal of its Chemistry Software License Suite. The license includes maintenance, upgrades, and technical support for a twelve‑month period, beginning within thirty days of award. The software is essential to NCATS’s small‑molecule discovery and translational research workflows, providing tools for chemical structure drawing, compound registration, property prediction, virtual synthesis, and integration of chemistry data with biological assay results. This is not a competitive solicitation; it is a notice of intent to award a sole‑source purchase order. • Sole‑source award to ChemAxon LLC (Radnor, PA) • 12‑month base period, performance ending September 9, 2026 • Includes software licenses, maintenance, upgrades, and technical support • Supports cheminformatics, compound management, and data integration for NCATS research • NAICS 513210 – Software Publishers; business size $47 M • No pre‑bid meeting, site visit, or question period (questions not accepted) • Primary contact: Leah L. Hinson (email only)