Thermo Electron North America LLC was awarded a $570,256 firm-fixed price purchase order by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging to deliver a TSQ Altis Plus Triple Stage Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry equipment. The equipment will support research at the National Institute on Aging, part of NIH which conducts and supports medical research into aging and age-related conditions. Thermo Electron will deliver the mass spectrometry equipment to the specified location in Madison, Wisconsin within six months, as requested in the original solicitation which had no set-aside designation and sought quotes for the scientific instrument to further the important work of the National Institute on Aging.