The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded Inscopix, Inc. a $432,000 purchase order to provide an nVue Imaging System. The contract supports research at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center and upgrades obsolete equipment used in ongoing studies of traumatic brain injury. The original solicitation sought to replace a miniscope system and procure the nVue's dual-wavelength single-cell imaging and longitudinal recording capabilities to maintain consistency in...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded a $67,957.50 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Lifecanvas Technologies Inc., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business, for the purchase of a LifeCanvas Megatome precision vibrating microtome. This equipment will be used at the VA Medical Center in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts for the PTSD Brain Bank/Research program. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Lifecanvas Technologies, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts,...
This federal contract award is for the procurement of a light microscope system from Lifecanvas Technologies Inc., a woman-owned small business. The contract was awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration for $252,169.79 under a firm fixed price purchase order. The microscope system will be used to support biomedical research programs at the VA, particularly involving tissue processing, imaging, and analysis for neurological and mental health research....
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded a $47,570.00 Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order to Microbrightfield, LLC, doing business as Microbrightfield Inc., for an AxioImager M2 Microscope system, including the Neurolucida 360 and Stereo Investigator software. This specialized equipment supports the VA's medical research efforts. The contract has an ultimate completion date of October 30, 2024. No set-aside was used for this award. Microbrightfield is an established provider of advanced...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration awarded a $303,077.32 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Thorlabs, Inc., a manufacturer of photonics equipment, for the delivery of a dual laser deep brain two-photon microscopy system. This specialized microscopy system will be used for biomedical research at a VA medical center in Newton, New Jersey. Thorlabs has previously provided similar custom microscopy systems and photonics components to various federal agencies,...
This is a $126,500.00 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Veterans Integrated Service Network 20 to Inscopix, Inc., a for-profit provider of scientific imaging systems and services. The contract is for the delivery of Inscopix's nVoke Integrated Imaging and Optogenetics System for rodent research. This system enables large-scale neural activity observation in behaving subjects, supporting VA and other federal...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 awarded a $68,000 purchase order to Lifecanvas Technologies Inc. to deliver a Lifecanvas Megatome precision vibrating microtome for the VA Medical Center Jamaica Plain's PTSD Brain Bank and research activities. The one-year firm fixed price contract, which runs from September 2022 through September 2023, was competitively awarded without any set aside designations. Lifecanvas will provide...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 awarded a $368,847 fixed price award fee purchase order to Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC. The contract provides a Zeiss VisionHub and 4D System software and computers capable of running this software and interfacing with VA microscopes. This will allow visualization and analysis of three-dimensional microscope images of human brain tissue at the PTSD Brain Bank, in support of the VA's research...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 has awarded a $17,373.68 firm fixed price purchase order to Leica Microsystems Inc., a manufacturer of microscopes, scientific instruments, and imaging equipment, for preventative maintenance and service on the existing Leica Spectra Workstation at the PTSD Brain Bank lab. The 5-year contract covers the period from December 14, 2024 to December 13, 2029 and does not have a set-aside designation. Leica Microsystems...
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a $523,840 firm fixed price purchase order to Bitterroot Services & Technology, LLC dba BST to deliver one Leica SP8 confocal microscope system. The contract has a period of performance from May 26, 2020 to August 19, 2020 for delivery and installation at the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This award was made under a solicitation by the Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 seeking a user-friendly confocal...