This federal contract award was made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the University of Colorado-Denver, a major public research university, to conduct a comparison of immunological responses. The $75,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order has a completion date of May 31, 2017 and was awarded on August 4, 2016 without any set-aside designation.
The University of Colorado-Denver holds other federal contracts and grants, including an Indefinite Delivery Contract with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to serve as a clinical research site for medication development studies on alcohol use disorder treatments. The university also frequently partners with federal agencies like the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and National Institutes of Health on a variety of medical research, healthcare services, and technology development projects.