Definitive Contract HR001115C0094
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- This is a $699,679 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Ecovative, a for-profit limited liability company, for the Biological Robustness in Complex Settings (BRICS) Phase I effort. The contract is for the cohabitation of a genetically modified microbial community. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on December 4, 2015, with a completion date of December 7, 2017. DARPA is the funding agency for this...
- This is a federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Phylagen, Inc., a for-profit organization, for the "Biological Robustness in Complex Settings (BRICS) Program" related to geolocating the origin and transit history of objects through microbiome geosurveillance. The contract has a potential value of $5,057,654.00 and does not have a set-aside designation. The contract was awarded on September 29, 2017 with a completion date of December 31,...
- This federal contract award, valued at $31,863,305.85, is for the DARPA "Living Foundries: 1000 Molecules" program, which aims to build a scalable, integrated, rapid design and prototyping infrastructure for engineering biology. The prime contractor is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a premier private research university. The contract has no set-aside designation and is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type. Major subcontractors include the Broad...
- This contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to President and Fellows of Harvard College, operating as Harvard University, a private non-profit educational institution. The $1,231,846.00 contract is for the DARPA Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (SHRIMP) program, which will develop and demonstrate multi-functional millimeter-to-centimeter scale robotic platforms with a focus on untethered mobility, maneuverability, and dexterity. The program...
- This is a $224,995.00 STTR Phase I contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Brimrose Technology Corp, a for-profit company specializing in advanced material science and innovation. The contract is for the development of a multimodal non-destructive microfluidic sorting system for microbes, to support elemental analysis. This award was made under a DARPA Broad Agency Announcement seeking small business innovation in areas aligned with DARPA's mission, including...
- This is a firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, a civilian agency, to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University) for the development of a "Human Lymphoid Follicle Chip with In-Line Biomarker Sensing". The $749,000 contract was awarded on September 15, 2021, with a completion date of May 31, 2023. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. Harvard University, a private...
- This is a delivery order with a ceiling value of $1,485,000.00 awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under the W911NF19D0001 contract. The delivery order supports research on the influence of the gut microbiome on brain function and organism behavior, utilizing zebrafish as a model organism. Key tasks include developing diagnostics for monitoring gut microbiome disruption and investigating the systems...
- This federal contract award is for the Bio-Mod program, which seeks to develop devices and techniques to produce multiple protein biologics in response to specific battlefield threats and medical needs. The prime contractor is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a premier private research university known for its advanced scientific and technological capabilities. The $24,851,563.00 contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating MIT's broad competitiveness across...
- This federal contract award with ID HR001116C0138 was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Duke University, a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. The $2,799,942 definitive contract, which does not utilize a set-aside, is for the Biological Control Program - Phase I. This program aims to provide predictive, closed-loop, and generalizable means for controlling various biological systems and programming diverse system-level behaviors across...
- This federal contract award is for research services in bioinformatics, with a $862,993.33 ceiling value and an ultimate completion date of August 26, 2024. The contract was awarded to Harvard College President & Fellows Of, a non-profit educational institution operating through its Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health division. The contract is a delivery order issued under an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) held by the parent organization, President And Fellows Of Harvard College...
This federal contract award, with an ID of HR001115C0094, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the BRICS program, titled "TOWARDS RE-PROGRAMMING THE GUT MICROBIOME". The prime contractor is President and Fellows of Harvard College, doing business as Harvard Medical School, a non-profit research university. There are three major subcontractors: J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., a non-profit genomic research organization, and Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., a major academic medical center. The contract, which is a definitive contract with cost-no-fee pricing, has a ceiling value of $4,752,033.00 and a completion date of November 17, 2018. The contract aims to conduct research towards reprogramming the gut microbiome, including designing and synthesizing a modified Lactobacillus reuteri genome, developing computational models of gut microbiome dynamics, and obtaining mouse protocol approvals. This work supports DARPA's broader efforts in the BRICS program to enhance the resilience and performance of the human microbiome. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.
Name | Description | Solicitation Number | FederalAgency | Type | PostedDate |
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Control of Bee Behavior by Stably Engineered Gut Microbial Communities | DARPA-BAA-14-49 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Award Notice 4/4 | 7/8/15, 3:04 PM | |
Biological Robustness in Complex Settings (BRICS) | DARPA-BAA-14-49 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Award Notice 1/4 | 8/12/14, 2:36 PM | |
ROBUST: Robust Operation of Bacterial Universes with Synthetic-biology Technologies | DARPA-BAA-14-49 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Award Notice 3/4 | 7/8/15, 2:54 PM | |
Towards Re-programming the Gut Microbiome | DARPA-BAA-14-49 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Award Notice 2/4 | 6/4/15, 9:03 AM |
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00011 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 8/3/17 | |
| P00010 | Funding Only Action | $467.9k | 6/26/17 | |
| P00009 | Funding Only Action | $142.2k | 2/8/17 | |
| P00008 | Funding Only Action | $690.5k | 11/17/16 | |
| P00006 | Funding Only Action | $601.0k | 10/25/16 |