This contract was awarded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), which is a civilian agency under the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Lifeline Cell Technology, LLC, a subsidiary of International Stem Cell Corporation, to purchase human small airway epithelial primary cells. The cells are being acquired to develop a 3D vascularized lung model to mimic SARS-CoV-2 viral infection, in support of COVID-19 research. The contract has a firm fixed price of...
This federal contract was awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Mattek Corp, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer of human tissue models and assay kits. The $12,137 firm fixed-price purchase order is for the development of an NHBE (normal human bronchial epithelial) cell line using CRISPR/Cas or RNA interference (RNAi) technology. The contract has a small...
This federal contract award is for $142,563.00 to Biosurfaces Inc., a for-profit vendor that provides medical and laboratory supplies, equipment, and services to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), primarily the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award is for the provision of expandable lung alveolar epithelial cells in support of coronavirus (COVID-19) research conducted by the NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. This non-competitive acquisition...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to United States Biological Corp, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation. The contract, valued at $22,155.00, is for the procurement of normal adult human lung tissue samples in paraffin sections. This contract award is associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and does not have a set-aside...
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, within the Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded a $171,374 firm fixed price purchase order to Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute. Under this contract, Lovelace will conduct an evaluation of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor in a mouse model combining cigarette smoke exposure and influenza infection. All work will be performed by Lovelace in Albuquerque, New Mexico over a one-year...
Nanocellect Biomedical Inc. has been awarded a $95,120 firm fixed price purchase order by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health within the Department of Health and Human Services. Under this contract, Nanocellect Biomedical will identify actionable molecular pathways of acute rejection treatment failure in lung transplants to support the Institute's research efforts to improve outcomes for lung transplant patients. Performance will occur in San...
This firm fixed price purchase order for $949,800 was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to Mattek Corporation. The contract calls for the delivery of 600 EpiAirway 3D respiratory epithelial non-human primate microtissues and 600 EpiAlveolar 3D small airway non-human primate microtissues to support SARS-CoV-2 variant and therapeutics testing being conducted by the National Institute on Drug...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a $248,439 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Mattek Corporation, a for-profit manufacturer, for the provision of respiratory epithelial tissue models. The contract has a completion date of June 8, 2023 and was awarded on June 10, 2022 through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pittsburgh office. This contract supports the CDC's biomedical research and medical countermeasure testing needs, as Mattek has provided...
This federal contract award was issued by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a civilian agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contract, valued at $257,995.00, is for the Lung Tissue Research Consortium (LTRC) Tissue Repository task order 04, covering the period from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019. The prime contractor is National Jewish Health, a renowned non-profit hospital and research center in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (part of the National Institutes of Health) to Mattek Corporation, a small business manufacturer of human tissue models. The $98,259.02 contract is for the delivery of alveolar and tracheobronchial tissues in a ready-made format to support COVID-19 drug testing. The original solicitation was a total small business set-aside with a quick turnaround of 35 days for delivery to the NIH in...