The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $120,448 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to The Johns Hopkins University to perform services related to the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). The contract, which runs from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023, is for a senior technician to run assays on serum/plasma samples from BLSA participants to quantify the biomarkers N4PE, sTREM2, and phosphorylated tau 181. This research aims to examine the relationship between these biomarkers...
The National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a $267,648 firm fixed price purchase order to The Washington University Office Of Sponsored Research Services Division. The contract is to provide high precision mass spectrometry assays to track the temporal progression of plasma AD biomarkers in BLSA PET participants. As part of its larger Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, the National Institute on Aging aims to understand biological markers of Alzheimer's disease...
The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a $720,077.96 firm fixed price delivery order contract to the University of California, Los Angeles, doing business as the Office of Research Administration, for the processing of a subset of archived DNA samples from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. The place of performance is Los Angeles, California. The start date is September 29, 2021 and the end date is March 28, 2024....
This is a $555,687.68 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to provide DNA methylation microarray processing services in support of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). The contract has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025 and does not utilize a set-aside designation. UCLA, through its Office of Research...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $137,333 purchase order contract to conduct plasma assays of neurodegeneration using Lumipulse G1200 and Quanterix HD-X instruments as part of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. The firm-fixed price contract runs from September 2023 through September 2024 to be performed in Baltimore, Maryland. This appears to be a non-set aside award in support of the agency's longitudinal research...
This is a $763,793.40 time and materials contract awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to Vanderbilt University for image processing services in support of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). The contract has a base period of one year beginning September 30, 2020, with four one-year options. The services include processing functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, and computed tomography images to define regions of interest and characterize temporal relationships. The...
This is a definitive federal contract awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to Westat, Inc., a prominent professional services firm. The contract, with a ceiling value of $8,240,796.12, is for establishing outcomes for the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) cohort through a home visits program. The contract has an estimated period of performance from August 15, 2007, to August 14, 2011, with...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), awarded an $852,000 firm fixed price delivery order contract to The Bioteam, Inc. (Bioteam) under the company's Multiple Award Schedule contract vehicle. Bioteam will perform an Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) Data Ecosystem Landscape Assessment for NIA through November 15, 2023 from its place of performance...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to the University of Maryland, College Park. The $81,339.00 contract is for the development of harmonic analysis and machine learning-based approaches for magnetic resonance parameter estimation and data fusion in MRI. This work supports the NIA's brain mapping program and efforts to diagnose age-related brain tissue pathology and...
This is a $5,431,782.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, to Information Management Services, Inc. (IMS) for data coordination and systems management services to support the NIA Biobank program. The contract has a period of performance from August 30, 2023 through August 29, 2028. This requirement aims to provide continuity of existing services, improve those services, and expand the...