NIH Cancer Trials Support Unit (CTSU)

Provide administrative, regulatory, logistical, and information technology support for the Cancer Trials Support Unit (CTSU) to gain operational efficiency for both CTSU and NCTN/MCOs, enhance proficiency, and deliver measurable business value. The Contractor will build and maintain the operational infrastructure of the CTSU.

Historically, the CTSU has provided support for NCI Cooperative Group Clinical Trials Program's clinical treatment trial portfolio. The CTSU portfolio shall be expanded beyond this portfolio to take advantage of the opportunities and efficiencies for multi-center trial support. In this new award, the CTSU support activities will be broadened to the entire breadth of the clinical trial/study portfolio of the Cooperative Groups including, but not limited to, treatment, prevention, cancer control, imaging, comparative effectiveness and diagnostics which are sponsored by either the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis or the Division of Cancer Prevention or NCI approved collaborations with those Divisions. The CTSU shall support the Groups prior to, during, and after their transformation to the NCTN Program. Finally the CTSU shall also provide support to other selected multi-center organizations outside of the NCTN Program including, but not limited to, the NCI Experimental Therapeutic Clinical Trials Network (ET-CTN), also known as the Early Clinical Trials Network (ECTN), supported by the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis.