This firm fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency, to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated to provide reference clinical laboratory testing and assay services for NIA's Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. The contract has a ceiling value of $445,564.16 and a period of performance from July 24, 2020 through June 26, 2025. There was no set-aside designation used for this award. The contract requires...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian federal agency, awarded a $1,633,585.80 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Quest Diagnostics Incorporated to provide clinical laboratory testing and assay services for the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. The contract has no set-aside designation and runs through July 23, 2029. Quest Diagnostics, a for-profit organization experienced in providing medical testing and laboratory services to federal...
The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a Firm Fixed Price Purchase Order contract to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, a non-profit organization and 1862 land grant college. The contract, valued at $126,053.86, is for DNA methylation sequencing using the Illumina MethylationEPIC array to examine health disparities associated with obesity and chronic kidney disease in...
The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging awarded a $94,500 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to The Johns Hopkins University, a private non-profit research university, for whole genome sequencing of Cohort 2 participants in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. This contract supports the National Institute on Aging's research into health disparities associated with obesity and...
This firm fixed-price purchase order, valued at $150,000.00, was awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Hjartavernd SES, a non-profit organization registered in Iceland. The purpose of the contract is to isolate DNA from the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility Reykjavik Study (AGES-RS) in preparation for a potential study on methylation, which will require AGES-RS baseline...
The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging has awarded a firm fixed price delivery order to Chef Demitria Scott-Lynch, a minority and woman-owned small business, to provide meal provision services for the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span (HANDLS) study in Baltimore, Maryland. The $43,750 delivery order is for the 2023-2024 performance period and is issued against an indefinite delivery contract with...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $120,448 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to The Johns Hopkins University to perform services related to the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). The contract, which runs from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2023, is for a senior technician to run assays on serum/plasma samples from BLSA participants to quantify the biomarkers N4PE, sTREM2, and phosphorylated tau 181. This research aims to examine the relationship between these biomarkers...
This is a $502,500.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency, to Marie Fanelli Kuczmarski LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for nutrition scientist consulting services to support the NIA's Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) study over a period of one year, with an ultimate completion date of April 29, 2025. The services include developing guidelines for food pattern analysis,...
This firm fixed-price purchase order for $983,660 was awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging to Hjartavernd SES of Iceland. The contract calls for the contractor to analyze approximately 5,000 DNA samples from the Age Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study cohort to discover differential DNA methylation patterns related to Alzheimer's disease and other disorders. Specifically, the contractor will ship samples to a compliant laboratory, provide...
This $31,171.00 fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute on Aging, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to Hjartavernd SES, a non-profit organization in Iceland. The contract is for the provision of research services, including statistical analysis, DNA sample processing, and protein biomarker research, to support the agency's studies on cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, aging, and related areas. Hjartavernd SES has a...
This is a $94,600 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a civilian agency, to Aeon Technologies, L.L.C., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, for assaying homocysteine in frozen blood samples from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span (HANDLS) study. The purpose is to analyze changes in homocysteine levels over time and their relationship to health disparities, without introducing biases from using different assay methods across sample waves. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The HANDLS study examines how race and socioeconomic status impact health as people age, and this contract will support longitudinal analyses of biomarkers like homocysteine to better understand these disparities.