Purchase Order 75N98B19P00021

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) awarded a $45,816 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Biosurfaces Inc., a for-profit small business, to provide 8 pre-cut scaffolds from electrospun poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide) (PDLGA) material for use in non-human experiments supporting NCATS' 3D tissue bioprinting program. The scaffolds, which have a thickness less than 10 microns and pore size less than 1 micron, are intended to mimic...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to Emulate Inc., a for-profit small business. The contract, valued at $145,260.00, is for the delivery of Emulate's CHIP-S1 Stretchable Chip, a product in their organ-on-a-chip technology line. This technology supports various FDA and HHS initiatives in areas such as personalized medicine, biosurveillance, infectious disease...

This is a federal purchase order contract awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to Emulate Inc., a biotechnology company specializing in organ-on-chip technology. The $75,000.00 firm fixed-price contract is for the delivery of Life Cell Analyzers, which are part of Emulate's advanced microphysiological systems that replicate human organ functions. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Emulate, based in Boston, Massachusetts, has supplied a variety of organ-on-chip...

This is a $72,000 firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Axion Biosystems, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer, for the procurement of 16 boxes of 48-well and 16 boxes of 96-well Axion CytoView microelectrode array plates. The purchase order supports NCATS' Division of Preclinical Innovation's Therapeutic Development Branch and their N=1 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse to Maxwell Biosystems AG, a for-profit manufacturer, for a MaxTwo Multi-Electrode Array (MEA) system. The $176,600 contract provides a high-density, CMOS-based MEA platform with 26,400 electrodes to support the institute's research into induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons and neuropsychiatric disorders. The system...

This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, to 10X Genomics, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of life sciences technology products and services. The $12,833.00 contract is to acquire the Chromium Next GEM Chip G Single Cell Kit, which contains 48 reactions and supports single-cell analysis applications. This purchase is not associated with a larger...

The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded a $203,800.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Axion Biosystems, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer, for the Maestro Pro microelectrode array (MEA) system and related support services. This non-competitive acquisition was conducted under FAR Simplified Acquisition Procedures for commercial items to support the Stem Cell Translation Laboratory (SCTL) within the...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences awarded a $168,841.20 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Molecular Devices LLC, a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation, to provide an upgrade to the FLIPR Tetra high-throughput cellular screening system. This includes the installation of a high-speed electron multiplying charge-coupled device (HS-EMCCD) camera and associated Peak Pro 2 software. The upgrade will...

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to Molecular Devices LLC, a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation. The $208,187.00 contract provides an annual service agreement for Molecular Devices' FLIPR Tetra high-throughput cellular screening systems, which are used in NCATS' research on GPCR, ion channel, and stem cell projects with implications for pain and opioid...

This is a $142,686.37 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute on Drug Abuse to Emulate Inc. (doing business as Emulate), a for-profit small business. The contract is for Emulate's human emulation organ-on-a-chip instruments and accessories, which support the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's mission to develop in vitro 3D brain organoid models for studying neurological...