NIIMBL-2026-0494 - OPC UA/LADS Platform-Agnostic Software for Monitoring and Control of Bioreactors

The University of Delaware and the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) are soliciting proposals and pricing from qualified suppliers for the creation of platform-agnostic software compliant with OPC UA and companion specifications to enable machine-to-machine communication for most commercially available bioreactor systems with orchestrating systems and supporting devices to conduct and monitor automated mammalian cell culture.  The developed software will additionally support higher levels of interoperability through alignment with Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) and Allotrope semantic standards. The developed software will be demonstrated, documented, and delivered to the Big-Data Program / Data Structure and Management Workstream within NIIMBL.

Full details are provided in our RFP packet.

Request Number: NIIMBL-2026-0494

Request Name: OPC UA / LADS Specification-Based, Platform-Agnostic, Software for Monitoring and Control of Bioreactors

Interested parties are asked to contact senior buyer, Sean Malone ( spmalone@udel.edu ), to request the RFP packet.

IMPORTANT DATES:

> Questions must be received at spmalone@udel.edu , and proposals@udel.edu no later than: Thursday, July 2, 2026, at 2:00 PM ET

> Proposals must be received at spmalone@udel.edu , and proposals@udel.edu no later than: Friday, August 7, 2026, at 2:00 PM ET

>> Please know that this is a STRICT deadline and no late submissions will be accepted.  Any submission with a timestamp of 2:01 PM or later will be considered late.

>> We encourage bidders to submit bids well in advance of the deadline time.