HPE, Aruba & Juniper IT Procurement for the National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health is the United States' primary agency for biomedical and public health research and a component of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Headquartered on its main campus in Bethesda, Maryland, NIH comprises 27 institutes and centers spanning cancer, infectious disease, genomics, neuroscience, heart and lung research, and more. Its intramural and extramural research enterprise depends on a vast, always-on IT backbone to ingest, store, analyze, and share petabytes of scientific data.

NIH's Center for Information Technology (CIT) operates the NIH Data Center and Biowulf, recognized as the most powerful high-performance computing system in the United States dedicated to biomedical research. With a 100,000-plus-core Linux cluster and large GPU capacity, Biowulf supports genomics, structural biology, image analysis, computational chemistry, and a growing volume of artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads used by the majority of NIH principal investigators. This scale places extraordinary demands on data center power and cooling, high-speed networking, parallel storage, and resilient backup.

For IT buyers and contracting officers supporting NIH, the priorities are clear: modernize aging research and administrative infrastructure, deliver low-latency networking across campus labs and clinical facilities, expand storage and HPC capacity for AI-ready science, and maintain a strong security posture for sensitive biomedical and human-subjects data. Uniqcli helps NIH program offices and their integrators source the right HPE, Aruba, and Juniper platforms on compliant vehicles, with deployment and lifecycle support tailored to research environments.