Definitive Contract VA241P1797

This is a firm fixed price task order contract awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Team Placement Service Inc., a woman-owned small business, to provide 1,896 hours of research assistant services at a rate of $33.15 per hour, for a total ceiling value of $63,153.17. The task order was placed under Team Placement Service Inc.'s General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule contract for Scientific Equipment and Services (FSS-66). No set-aside was used for this...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, operating through its Office of Sponsored Research, was awarded a $218,940 firm fixed price purchase order by the Department of the Army Headquarters to provide graduate research assistant services in support of the Army's programs. As the prime contractor, UNC will perform the research assistant work at Fort Belvoir, Virginia from June 2017 through July 2022. No major subcontractors or set aside designations were identified. The contract is...

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 awarded an $8,050 firm fixed price delivery order to Brown University to provide research assistant services for approved research projects through August 12, 2022. The delivery order was awarded on August 13, 2021 under an existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle to support the agency's research initiatives. No set-aside designation was applied to this award. Brown...

Applied Research Associates, Inc. was awarded a $599,999.54 delivery order against the Construction and Project Management Research and Technology Program master IDIQ by the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. The firm fixed price order is to provide research, development, and engineering services from February 2020 through November 2023 to conduct a ruggedness evaluation and interlaboratory study establishing precision and bias statements for small scale dynamic modulus...

The University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories Division was awarded a $570,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research's $50 million, 5-year single-award Basic Ordering Agreement for research and development services. As the prime contractor, UT Applied Research Laboratories will provide operator support package services under the NSWG-8 contract. The award was issued on September 20, 2023 and has a completion date of...

Applied Research LLC was awarded a $149,999 firm fixed price delivery order for Phase I Kick-Off Briefing Materials under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The Naval Sea Systems Command will utilize Applied Research LLC, located in Potomac, Maryland, to provide Phase I deliverables in support of the SBIR Program. This total small business set-aside contract aligns with the Navy's research initiatives to foster technological innovation through competitive awards to small...

The University of Texas at Austin Applied Research Laboratories Division was awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract valued at $349,969 by the Department of the Navy to conduct an Acoustic Intelligence (ACINT) Data Transport and Storage Study. As the prime contractor, UT Austin Applied Research Laboratories will leverage its expertise in naval systems, autonomous technologies, sensors, and information sciences to provide research, development, testing and evaluation services...

Jung Research & Development Corp. was awarded a delivery order against an existing contract vehicle to provide facility support services for the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Valued at $267,554.40, this unrestricted award has Jung Research supporting NIST's Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed (AMMT) and Temperature and Emissivity of Metal Powder Samples (TEMPS) program through March 2021. Services include maintaining cryogenic...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research awarded a $270,000 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract for public opinion research services to R-Research LIMITED, a for-profit organization. This is the most recent in a series of contracts the agency has awarded to R-Research LIMITED over the past two years, indicating an ongoing relationship and the company's specialized capability in delivering research that likely informs U.S. foreign policy strategies. The contract has...

RTI International was awarded a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at $478,530 by the National Science Foundation National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NSF NCSES) to conduct the research project "Systematic Study of Low-Burden Respondents in a High-Burden Diary Task: A Case Study with FoodAPS". The award was made under the NCSES Broad Agency Announcement seeking proposals from universities and research institutions to conduct projects supporting NCSES'...