Delivery Order 75N92019D00033-75N92021F00001

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued a delivery order to Vitalant Research Institute on April 1, 2021, with a ceiling value of $4.9 million under a cost-no-fee pricing structure for the REDS-IV-P Center for Transfusion Laboratory Studies Phase 2 program, with an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2025.

Place of performance is Bethesda, Maryland. The delivery order funds transfusion medicine research and laboratory services supporting the Institute's blood research initiatives.

Government-invoiced labor under this order totaled $4.95 million across FY2022–FY2025, supporting a labor footprint that grew from 0.7 FTEs in FY2022 to a peak of 8.9 FTEs in FY2024, then moderated to 4.5 FTEs in FY2025 across 9,327 contractor hours. Derived government-paid blended hourly rates (prime and subcontractor combined) declined from $192.88/hr in FY2022 to $126.64/hr in FY2024, then recovered to $162.86/hr in FY2025. In FY2025, subcontractors performed approximately 4 percent of contractor hours.