The agency is gauging market interest. No bid is being requested yet — submitting a capabilities statement may put you on the radar for the eventual solicitation.
How to respond — with a free templatearrow_forwardThe National Institutes of Health needs a small business to manufacture specialized disposable gloves for its personnel.
Key Details
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) needs specialized disposable gloves for its personnel. The gloves must meet specific requirements, including material, thickness, barrier integrity, chemical resistance, degradation resistance, permeation performance, durability, dexterity, fit, tactile sensitivity, puncture or tear resistance, and compatibility with the intended task. The NIH is seeking information from small businesses that can provide U.S.-manufactured gloves meeting these requirements.
- What exactly do they need?
The NIH needs specialized disposable gloves for its personnel, including sterile nitrile, neoprene, and polyisoprene gloves. The gloves must meet specific requirements, including material, thickness, barrier integrity, chemical resistance, degradation resistance, permeation performance, durability, dexterity, fit, tactile sensitivity, puncture or tear resistance, and compatibility with the intended task.
- What's the contract structure and timeline?
The NIH is seeking information from small businesses that can provide U.S.-manufactured gloves meeting the requirements. The notice does not mention a specific contract structure or timeline.
- How will they pick the winner?
The NIH will evaluate responses based on the availability and capability of qualified small business sources, including their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code of 315990.
- When and how do you bid?
Responses to this notice are due by 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. Respondents should submit their capability statement electronically to Tonia Alexander at tonia.alexander@nih.gov.
Who can apply
- Must be a certified small business
- Has experience in manufacturing medical gloves
- Has a facility in the United States
Heads up — easy to miss
- The NIH will not reimburse respondents for any costs incurred in preparing a response.
- Proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should not be included in the response.
If you're interested, do this first
- Check that your small business certification is still active in SAM.gov.
- Write a capability statement informing the availability of U.S.-manufactured specialized disposable gloves meeting the salient characteristics listed above in detail.
- Include the country of origin for all component materials, country of manufacture, and annual production capability in the capability statement.