The National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $711,170.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) for long-read sequencing to detect genomic and epigenetic features of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The contract has a performance period ending on July 21, 2028. UCSC, which is a U.S. state government entity, Hispanic-Serving Institution, and 1862 land grant college, has a history of supporting federal...
The University of California Santa Cruz, doing business as the Chancellor's Office, was awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at two hundred forty-eight thousand dollars by the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging. The contract calls for the prime contractor to generate pipelines for analyses of single nucleotide variation and methylation profiling in long-read sequencing data, to support the funding agency's efforts to detect genomic and epigenetic features of...
The University of California, Santa Barbara, doing business as the Office of Research, was awarded a $249,977 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging to support research relating to the genetics of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Latin America. As part of its broader mission to support biomedical and public health research, the National Institute on Aging is funding this project to advance understanding of genetic risk...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging awarded a $480,570 firm-fixed-price purchase order to The Johns Hopkins University. The order is for mouse whole genome bisulfate sequencing, bulk RNA sequencing, ATAC sequencing, ChIP sequencing, and single cell RNA sequencing services to support research on immune cell gene regulation and Alzheimer's disease related dementias. There are no set-aside designations for the order, which was awarded non-competitively to the incumbent...
The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a $720,077.96 firm fixed price delivery order contract to the University of California, Los Angeles, doing business as the Office of Research Administration, for the processing of a subset of archived DNA samples from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. The place of performance is Los Angeles, California. The start date is September 29, 2021 and the end date is March 28, 2024....
The National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a $294,880 firm-fixed price purchase order to 10X Genomics, Inc. for long read sequencing kits. The solicitation requested quotations for these products to support gene expression analysis for the agency's Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias neurodegenerative disease research. Evaluation criteria included technical capability, price, and past performance. This requirement was set aside for small businesses...
This firm fixed-price purchase order awards Psomagen Inc. $422,000 to provide RNA sequencing services to the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), from June 2021 through June 2023. The contract supports NIA research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias by requiring the contractor to construct sequencing libraries from 20 human samples, perform sequencing on an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform, and deliver various data files. No set-aside...
This is a $555,687.68 firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to provide DNA methylation microarray processing services in support of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). The contract has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025 and does not utilize a set-aside designation. UCLA, through its Office of Research...
The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a $153,000 firm fixed price purchase order to The Johns Hopkins University, a private research university, to provide single cell RNA sequencing services in support of Alzheimer's disease related dementia research. The contract has a period of performance through September 29, 2024. This contract is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and does not have a set-aside...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded a $66,054.60 firm fixed-price purchase order to the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), a non-profit research organization, for long-read RNA sequencing services. This contract, with a completion date of December 10, 2024, does not utilize any set-aside designations. TGen, which frequently collaborates with academic institutions and has received substantial...
The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a $189,638 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to provide long-read sequencing services to detect genomic and epigenetic features of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The period of performance is from May 10, 2021, to May 9, 2022, with a potential option period. This contract is not set aside. UCSC, a public research university, has extensive experience providing research, engineering, and IT services to federal agencies through prime and subcontract awards. The work under this contract includes developing algorithms for analyzing single nucleotide variants and methylation profiles in long-read sequencing data, as well as establishing protocols for DNA isolation, library preparation, and operating sequencing equipment. All data and algorithms will be owned by the National Institutes of Health.