The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a $44,370 purchase order to the University of California, San Diego under a firm fixed price contract. The University will provide research lab services to support the agency's Genome Wide Association Study, a program examining genetic factors related to veterans' health conditions. As the prime contractor, the University will draw on its expertise in genomic research and facilities in San Diego to deliver the requested...
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a firm fixed price delivery order contract to the University of Rochester, a private research university, to provide unspecified research services in Pennsylvania locations. The $33,746.80 delivery order is part of a larger indefinite delivery contract with a $489,400 ceiling value that has a period of performance through September 2025. This contract is intended to assist the VHA's Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 in its regional efforts to...
The U.S. Department of the Army Medical Command awarded a $675,000.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to the Institute for Systems Biology, a non-profit biomedical research organization, on September 24, 2018. The contract is for the provision of 400 blood/serum samples and associated paperwork and results from patients who have experienced PTSD-related trauma, in order to reflect the experiences of military personnel. The samples are to be identified, quality checked, aliquoted, and...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, operating through its Office of Sponsored Research, has been awarded a $402,359 delivery order by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 (VA - VHA) to conduct a research study for the VA National Center for PTSD. The firm-fixed price order is for the period of September 20, 2021 through September 19, 2022 and will be performed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. No subcontractors or...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 issued a $19,329.65 firm fixed price delivery order to the University of Rochester for Express Report: Ordering Officer Expenditures for Prosthetic and Orthotic Supplies and Services for VISN 2 for the Month of September 2021. The delivery order was awarded on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of September 30, 2021. It was issued against the VISN 2 Artificial Limb IDIQ master contract...
The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) awarded a sole-source, firm-fixed price purchase order to The Mclean Hospital Corporation to provide blood samples (serum and preserved DNA) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research. The potential value of the contract is $500,000.00, and the period of performance ends on September 30, 2018. Mclean Hospital was selected as the sole source because it has the only available collection of samples that meet the government's...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $176,364.70 firm fixed price purchase order to The General Hospital Corporation (Massachusetts General Hospital) for research services related to B lymphocytes in autoimmune disease. This research contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is focused on high-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis of samples from the Kendall Lab to facilitate research into autoimmune pathways and the development of healthy immune...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 19 awarded a $47,470.50 firm fixed price purchase order to Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, doing business as Beckman Research Institute of City O, for research consulting services. The place of performance is Irwindale, California, and the period of performance is September 27, 2023 through September 26, 2024. The original solicitation was a sole source notice of intent for...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded a $149,983.55 firm-fixed-price delivery order contract to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to conduct a research study for the VA National Center for PTSD. This is a task order under an existing indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract between UNC-CH and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to provide pre-clinical research services for infectious disease studies. The...
This is a definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Army Medical Command to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), a non-profit healthcare provider, with a potential value of $1,718,963.00. The contract is for the "Automatic Sensing for Clinical Documentation" project, which involves the design, implementation, and evaluation of a clinical activity detection prototype system using accelerometers and image data. VUMC has subcontracted with Oregon State University, a...