Purchase Order 75N95B25P00021

This is a $12,690 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a civilian agency of the U.S. government, to Springer Nature Customer Service Center LLC, a division of the global academic publishing company Springer Nature. The contract provides for the publication of a scientific research manuscript titled "Brain-wide Presynaptic Networks of Functionally Distinct Cortical Neurons" in Springer Nature's Nature journal.

Springer Nature is a major provider of scientific, technical, and medical publications to the federal government, with over $25 million in contract awards to deliver specialized content across various research disciplines. This purchase order is part of Springer Nature's larger indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts with the Library of Congress FEDLINK program, valued at over $100 million, and the National Institutes of Health, valued at over $12 million, which enable federal agencies to access the company's extensive portfolio of online journals, ebooks, and databases. These contracts are critical in supporting federal research initiatives across a broad spectrum of agencies and disciplines.