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NIH SBIR Contracts (Contract Solicitations)

Helps NIH Contracts for Topic-specific procurement contracts for innovation and strategic advancement.

NIH SBIR Contracts are the contract side of NIH SEED's small-business funding, used when an NIH Institute or Center, CDC, or FDA unit wants a specific R&D deliverable rather than an investigator-initiated grant. The route is topic-specific from the start: applicants respond to a contract topic defined by the awarding staff, and the same mechanism is not used for STTR.

The submission channel is eC

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Last verified: 1 Jun 2026Source: seed.nih.gov