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The Department of State awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at $185,000 to The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) to deliver a proposal titled "US-PRC Nuclear Competition Implications and Avenues for Diplomacy in South and Southeast Asia." The Bureau of Arms Control Verification and Compliance will fund the work to be conducted in Washington, D.C. between September 2023 and August 2024. Specifically, IISS will analyze the implications of nuclear...

This federal contract award to The RAND Corporation, doing business as RAND Corp, is for the production of an unclassified, publicly released assessment of trends in the military balance between the United States and China in key operational areas over time. The $1,500,000.00 cost-reimbursement contract was awarded by the Defense agency and has a completion date of September 24, 2025. The contract does not utilize a set-aside designation. As a non-profit global policy think tank, RAND frequently...

The U.S. government awarded a $1,000,000.00 Other Transaction Agreement contract to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF-SUNY) for the "UNDERSTANDING GROUP BIASES (UGB)" project. RF-SUNY, a non-profit organization, provides research, engineering, testing, and consulting services through prime federal contracts and subcontracts. This contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on May 21, 2018, with a completion date of December 27, 2019....

The Rand Corporation has been awarded a definitive contract valued at $900,000 by the Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism to conduct research and development reporting on mapping white identity terrorism and related efforts to remove such extremism. As the prime contractor, Rand will perform the work over a one-year period ending in March 2022 in Washington, D.C. under a firm fixed price arrangement. No subcontractors or set aside designations were specified. The Bureau of...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Defense (DOD) Washington Headquarters Service to Edward N. Luttwak, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business and for-profit subchapter S corporation. The contract, valued at $197,000.00, is for research reports and studies related to the People's Republic of China (PRC) border, including topics such as China's military manpower sustainability, food and fuel logistics, and studies on China's borders. The contract...

This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. The contract, valued at $879,453, is for an "Exploratory Assessment of Anti-Racism" and is part of the CDC's Achieving Public Health Impact Through Research (APHITR) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). NORC, a non-profit research organization, will provide survey research, data collection, analysis, and...

The Department of Defense awarded a firm-fixed-price delivery order contract valued at $471,917.00 to Long Term Strategy Group, LLC (LTSG), a woman-owned small business, to conduct a study on "Chinese Problems & Perspectives." The contract has no set-aside designation and was completed on July 15, 2020. LTSG has received multiple prime contract awards from the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Services and the Office of the Secretary of Defense between 2019 and 2023...

The Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service awarded a firm fixed-price definitive contract worth $334,200.56 to Baron Public Affairs LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to conduct a study titled "Understanding Beijing's True Approach Toward Environmentalism". This contract has no set-aside designation and was completed on September 24, 2018. Baron Public Affairs LLC has previously provided written reports, research studies, assessments, and analyses on topics...

This is a firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Washington Headquarters Service, a component of the Department of Defense, to Baron Public Affairs LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Washington, D.C. The contract, valued at $688,717.75, is for "UNEXPLORED WINDOWS INTO CHINESE CULTURE" and does not have a set-aside designation. Based on the information provided, Baron Public Affairs LLC specializes in providing specialized research, analysis, and reporting...

This is a new task order awarded against a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract with the Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs. The task order is for an opinion research survey to be conducted in the Chinese diaspora. The prime contractor is The District Communications Group LLC, doing business as DCG Communications, a veteran-owned small business communications consultancy. The contract has a firm fixed price of $277,097.52 and a completion date of June 1,...