Purchase Order 36C24124P0938
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- The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a $105,750.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to the University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education, a non-profit educational institution, to provide brain tissue samples. The contract was awarded on September 20, 2017, with a completion date of September 19, 2018. The contract was not set aside under any small business program. The University of Pittsburgh has a history of providing research,...
- The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $248,050 firm-fixed-price purchase order to the University of Pittsburgh for the provision of brain bank tissue samples. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Pittsburgh is a major recipient of federal research grants and contracts, frequently partnering with other organizations on projects for agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Department of Defense. The university has...
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a $148,800.00 firm fixed price purchase order to the University of Pittsburgh to provide postmortem brain tissue samples. The contract has a completion date of September 30, 2022 and was awarded on July 1, 2021. No set-aside designations were used for this contract. As a leading research university, the University of Pittsburgh has an extensive history of supporting federal agencies through contract and grant...
- The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a $173,900.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order to the University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education, doing business as The University of Pittsburgh, for human brain tissue samples. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Pittsburgh is a non-profit, state-controlled institution of higher education that regularly provides research, education, and other services to...
- The University of Pittsburgh has been awarded a $161,000 firm fixed-price purchase order by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network 1, for the provision of postmortem brain tissue samples. The contract, awarded on September 1, 2025, carries an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026, and will be performed in West Haven, Connecticut. No set-aside designation was utilized for this award. As a comprehensive public research university with extensive federal...
- The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded a Firm Fixed Price contract to the University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (doing business as The University of Pittsburgh), a non-profit educational institution, for $485,086.00. The contract is for the provision of post mortem human brain tissue samples. No set-aside designation was used. The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related research university that has a history of...
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network 4, awarded a $610,722.86 firm fixed-price definitive contract to the University of Pittsburgh on September 21, 2021, for research support services. The contract, which was completed by September 20, 2022, originated from a Department of Veterans Affairs sole-source Special Notice published in July 2021. The VA Salt Lake City Medical Center sought to engage the University of Pittsburgh to support a research study focused on...
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network 6, awarded a $3.0 million firm fixed price purchase order to Duke University's Office of Research Administration for brain tissue processing services to support post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research at the Durham VA Medical Center. The contract, awarded on September 13, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of September 12, 2028, represents a sole source award to Duke School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry...
- The Department of Veterans Affairs, through the Veterans Integrated Service Network 1, awarded a $1.91M firm fixed-price purchase order to Trustees of Boston University for bioinformatics support services related to the PTSD Brain Bank. This contract, which was exercised for option year 4, represents the continuation of research support services focused on post-traumatic stress disorder research initiatives. The award carries an ultimate completion date of January 13, 2027, with performance to...
- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order contract valued at $1,821.00 to the University of Pittsburgh for "AFFILIATE MRI SCAN SERVICES." The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, will run through April 30, 2022. The University of Pittsburgh, a state-related research university, frequently secures federal contracts and grants for research, development, and technical services across a wide range of disciplines. Under this...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network 1, awarded a $192,750 firm fixed-price purchase order to the University of Pittsburgh for the procurement of postmortem brain tissue samples from the PTSD Brain Bank. The contract, effective September 1, 2024, with ultimate completion by August 31, 2025, supports the VA's research initiatives related to post-traumatic stress disorder through the acquisition and provision of central nervous system tissue specimens. This purchase order represents part of the University of Pittsburgh's established role as a major provider of biomedical research infrastructure and tissue banking services to federal agencies. The University of Pittsburgh, a prominent public research institution within Pennsylvania's Commonwealth System of Higher Education, has an extensive track record providing specialized research services to federal agencies, including a $19.9 million cost-plus-no-fee contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse for the NIH Neurobiobank Brain and Tissue Repository and a $146.3 million indefinite delivery contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The PTSD Brain Bank tissue procurement was awarded without set-aside designation under open competition. This award aligns with the VA's broader mission to support research addressing the health outcomes and therapeutic approaches for veterans experiencing service-connected conditions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00001 | Funding Only Action | ($5k) | 3/24/26 | |
| Not listed | Not listed | $198.0k | 8/26/24 |