This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to Life Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific. The $14,826.24 contract supports the agency's life sciences research and public health mission by providing specialized biomedical research and genetic analysis tools and technologies, including reagents, instruments, software, and services for applications such as DNA sequencing, gene expression analysis, and molecular diagnostics.
Life Technologies Corporation has been awarded multiple sole-source federal contracts and subcontracts by civilian and defense agencies, leveraging its expertise in proprietary technologies and consumables compatible with the agencies' existing platforms. This includes a $3.5 million indefinite delivery contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration to supply genome reagents for gene sequencing, as well as a $1.45 million blanket purchase agreement to provide sequencing reagents on an as-needed basis. The contract does not involve any set-aside designation.
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