The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a firm-fixed-price definitive contract to the University of Illinois (doing business as The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois) for $396,009.84. Under this contract, the University of Illinois' Biological Resource Laboratory (UIC BRL) will conduct monthly sentinel animal testing for the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), as well as accept and temporarily house rodents that need to be re-derived before being transferred to the Jesse Brown VAMC. The contract has a completion date of May 31, 2023 and was awarded on July 3, 2018. No set-aside designation was used for this award.