This is a Definitive Contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech), a public research university, for the "Temporal and Spatial Characterization of Respirable Coal Mine Dust (RCMD)". The contract has a Firm Fixed Price of $293,614.00 and a completion date of April 30, 2022. The research effort involves three major tasks: 1) Sample collection at mine sites, 2)...
This is a $288,343 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) for FY21 Big Data analysis and text mining using machine learning algorithms to support mine health and safety. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Michigan Tech is a public research university that frequently partners with federal agencies to provide research, development, and technical services across...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $430,394 firm-fixed-price contract to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to characterize submicron- and nano-scale coal dusts and their effects on miners' pneumoconiosis and lung cancer. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 26, 2022. Penn State, a public research university and one of the nation's first land-grant institutions, regularly serves as a prime contractor, subcontractor, and grant...
This firm-fixed-price definitive contract was awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to conduct research on the reduction or elimination of coal mining-related respirable dust toxicity. The $327,849 contract has an ultimate completion date of February 29, 2024. Penn State, a public research university with expertise in materials science, is performing this work without any set-aside designation. The...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Pittsburgh awarded a definitive contract valued at three hundred three thousand five hundred seventy-five dollars to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, doing business as Virginia Tech. Under this firm fixed price contract, Virginia Tech will characterize respirable crystalline silica sources and provide research findings to the CDC over a thirty-three month period of performance in...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech. The $1,206,291.00 fixed-price contract has a completion date of August 31, 2024 and is for a project titled "Respirable Coal Mine Dust: Mineral Content Sources, Monitoring and Control, and Building Capacity to Protect Miner Health". The contract does not have a set-aside...
This is a $364,421 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pittsburgh office, a civilian agency. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for a MINING BAA (Broad Agency Announcement) project with a period of performance through August 31, 2023. Under this contract, UNR's Sponsored Projects Division will conduct research related to particle size distribution, chemical...
This is a $461,112 firm-fixed price definitive contract awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) to advance the understanding of respirable silica occurrence in coal mines. The award has an ultimate completion date of April 22, 2025 and is not set aside for small businesses. Virginia Tech is a leading public research university with extensive capabilities in engineering, science, technology, and...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $230,023 firm-fixed-price contract to The Pennsylvania State University for the "Development and Demonstration of Mine Safety and Health Technology." This is a definitive contract with an ultimate completion date of April 22, 2025. The contract does not have any set-aside designation, indicating open competition. The Pennsylvania State University, through its Office of the Bursar, has a history of providing educational...
This is a $290,000.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech), a minority-serving, Hispanic-serving public research university located in Socorro, New Mexico. The contract, titled "BAA MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH", has an ultimate completion date of April 4, 2025 and was awarded on August 1, 2022. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. New Mexico...