Delivery Order NSFDACS11C1296-NSFDACS12T1200

This is a federal contract awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to Lumina Corps Inc., a woman-owned small business (WOSB) located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The contract is for meeting and conference support services (MACSS) and has a ceiling value of $95,895.66. It is a delivery order contract with a time and materials pricing type and a performance period through June 5, 2025....

This federal contract award, valued at $100,000.00, was issued by the Smithsonian Institution to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The contract is for SUPPORT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE CENTRAL SERVICES/BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS FOR EOL YEAR 9 and does not have a set-aside designation. MBL is a non-profit research institution that provides specialized laboratory space, technical support, and research facilities to various government agencies like the...

This is a $1,049,941 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to establish a Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) covering the Southern California Bight region. The project aims to integrate biodiversity data from multiple sources to enable regional biodiversity analysis, as well as develop advanced optical, acoustic, and genomic methods for monitoring marine...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $381,061.36 grant to the University of South Florida (USF) to implement a demonstration project for the Pole-to-Pole Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (P2P MBON) in the Americas. The P2P MBON is a component of the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON), which is a thematic network established under the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). The goal of the project is to develop a...

This $431,418 grant awarded by NASA to Montana State University is focused on studying the biology and ecology of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB), which represent a unique model for understanding the early evolution of complex multicellular life. The project aims to: (i) determine the ecophysiology and metabolic requirements of MMB; (ii) assess whether MMB consortia exhibit cellular cooperation or division of labor; and (iii) develop hypotheses on the genetic and evolutionary...

This federal contract award, with an ID of 80NSSC25K7141, is a $49,300 grant provided by the Shared Services Center (an agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university located in Troy, New York. The grant will fund a 3-day hybrid workshop in Spring 2025 in Washington, DC that will bring together experts from various disciplines, including prebiotic chemistry, origin of life, and astrochemistry, to explore how...

This is a $551,254 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, a non-profit marine research organization located in East Boothbay, Maine. The grant, titled "PILOT STUDY: ACTIVE-LIFE DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES AND LINEAGE-RESOLVED MICROBIAL PROCESS RATES IN AN OCEAN WORLD ANALOG SUBSURFACE ECOSYSTEM", is for a research project to develop technologies for detecting signs of life in ocean...

This is a $561,933 grant award from NASA's Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology program to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) to study the evolution of multicellular life cycles. The research aims to understand how multicellular organisms and developmental programs arise from single-celled ancestors, using experimental evolution of yeast and algae as model systems. The grant will support an interdisciplinary approach combining experimental work, molecular genetics, and mathematical...

This is a federal contract award from an undisclosed government agency to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), a non-profit research organization located in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The contract was initially awarded on February 15, 2003 with a potential value of $2,080,856.00. The contract has been extended at no additional cost, with the period of performance now ending on October 31, 2008. The total contract value, including the $315,649 increase, is $1,478,996. This contract does not...

This is a federal contract awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health, to the Institute for Systems Biology, a nonprofit biomedical research organization based in Seattle, Washington. The contract, valued at $23,429,589.02, is for a "BIOMEDICAL (APPLIED/EXPLORATORY)" project related to "A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH." The contract is a definitive contract with a...