Solicitation
Restorative and health-Enhancing Sleep Time (REST)
Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health · Sol. ARPA-H-SOL-26-159
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ARPA-H, a federal health research agency, is seeking proposals for its REST program on objective, home-based, closed-loop sleep technologies that detect sleep patterns and respond in real time. The notice text mostly lists amendments to the solicitation. The real requirements are in the attached solicitation documents.
Watch out for
- Many amendments and changing process. The solicitation has been amended 11 times, including changes to how proposals are reviewed, so read the latest documents closely.
Amendment 11 revises section 4.5 of the ISO, adds expected dates of pitch sessions
- Multi-stage selection. Solution summaries, proposals and pitches are reviewed separately, which takes more effort and time from a small team.
- Key details are in attachments. Requirements, funding, award type and evaluation criteria are not in the notice text.
Read from the notice text only.
Full brief
What they want
- Proposals for the Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time (REST) program
- Objective, home-based, closed-loop technologies that detect health-relevant sleep microstructures
- Technologies that respond to sleep microstructures in real time
- How they'll choose
- Staged review: Solution Summaries encourage/discourage, Proposals invite/not invited, Pitches selected for negotiation/not selected
- Offers due
- 2026-10-13 12:00 PM Eastern (-04:00), as listed on the notice
What to include when you submit
- Use the REST Proposal Template folder and the Proposal Format and Instructions appendix
- Submit a cost proposal workbook; the previously issued version is still acceptable
- Pitch sessions are planned; expected dates are in the solicitation
Not in the notice text
- Award type and contract or agreement terms
- Funding amount and period of performance
- Evaluation criteria
- Eligibility rules and any team requirements
- How to submit proposals
- Place of performance
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 13, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Oct 2, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- ARPA-H-SOL-26-159
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Office
- Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H)
- Set-aside
- No Set aside used
- NAICS
- 541715
- Product/service code
- AN13
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research
- Contracting contact
- REST Teamrest@arpa-h.gov
- Versions
- 14 (amended since first posted)
Full notice text from SAM.gov
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) seeks proposals for the Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time (REST) program, a bold effort to transform how poor sleep is measured and treated by enabling objective, home-based, closed-loop technologies that detect health-relevant sleep microstructures and respond to them in real time. If successful, REST will establish the technical foundation for a new generation of sleep health technologies that are objective, personalized, and capable of improving long-term health outcomes at scale. 6/16: Amendment 1 updates links within the ISO 6/18: Amendment 2 adds Section 6.5 Questions and Answers 6/24: Amendment 3 makes various edits for clarification in Sections 1-3. 7/7: Amendment 4 modifies the table in Section 3.2.1 TA1 Success Metrics. 7/16: Amendment 5 modifies additional text within the table in Section 3.2.1 TA1 Success Metrics. 8/10: Amendment 6 modifies the solicitation by breaking the Solution Summary, Proposal and Pitch into distinct categories. Solution Summaries will be reviewed on an encourage/discourage basis; Proposals will be evaluated on an invite/not invited basis; Pitches will be evaluated on a selected for negotiation/not selected basis. 8/11: Amendment 7 modifies Section 3.3 Key Program Milestones table. Changes made in Amendment 6 remain in red text to highlight important changes to solicitation process. 9/14: Amendment 8 modifies Section 4.4 Proposal Requirements and reactivates solicitation until proposal due date. 9/15: Amendment 9 adds REST Proposal Template folder as an attachment to the solicitation. 9/21: Amendment 10 revises REST Proposal Template document "REST_APPENDIX B.0_Proposal Format and Instructions". 10/2: Amendment 11 revises section 4.5 of the ISO, adds expected dates of pitch sessions, and revises "REST_APPENDIX B.0_Proposal Format and Instructions". Additionally, this amendment removed the cost breakout by task tab from both Cost Proposal spreadsheets. No substantive changes were made to the template itself. Proposers may continue to use the previously issued version of the Cost Proposal Workbook; prior versions remain fully acceptable for submission.
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