Summary
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) intends to award a modification to an existing contract to serve as the Strong Heart Study (SHS) Coordinating Center (CC), providing administrative, data-analytics, and management expertise. The work will support the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) in maintaining contact with the SHS cohort, supporting field centers, and preserving data and biospecimen repositories while enabling analyses of cardiovascular disease risk in Native American populations. This appears to be a sole-source/limited-competition contract action with an estimated budget range and a short performance duration to continue coordinating SHS activities across field centers.