NEW TASK ORDER FOR IDIQ CONTRACT: NIH INFANT & TODDLER TOOLBOX TO TITLE: FINALIZATION OF ALL MEASURES AND COLLECTION OF NORMING DATA FROM ALL PLANNED

2006年，NIH蓝图授予NIH Toolbox®合同，开发一套标准仪器来测量3-85岁人群的神经和行为健康，以确保评估方法和结果可用于跨研究比较，从而最大限度地提高NIH受资助者收集的数据的效用。同样的开发人员在竞争中赢得了2019年授予的另一份NIH蓝图合同，以创建一套扩展的标准神经发育评估措施，即1至42个月大的儿童，从而使研究人员和临床医生能够共享神经和行为健康的全生命周期评估工具。这份为期5年的合同涉及由西北大学的Richard Gershon博士领导的国家研究小组，用于创建NIH婴儿和幼儿实验室（又名“NIH婴儿实验室”或NBT）。

In 2006, the NIH Blueprint awarded the NIH Toolbox® contract to develop a standard set of instruments to measure neurological and behavioral health in persons ages 3-85 to ensure that assessment methods and results could be used for comparisons across studies, thus maximizing the utility of data collected by NIH grantees. The same developers competitively won an additional NIH Blueprint contract awarded in 2019, to create an extended standard set of neurodevelopmental assessment measures in younger ages – namely in children 1- to 42-months of age, thus enabling a tool for the full life-course assessment of neurological and behavioral health to be shared by investigators and clinicians. The 5-year contract engages a national team of researchers led by Richard Gershon, PhD, at Northwestern University, for the creation of this NIH Infant and Toddler Toolbox (aka the “NIH Baby Toolbox” or NBT).