This federal contract award was made by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to Formulatrix, LLC, a foreign-owned, for-profit organization specializing in laboratory automation solutions and scientific instrumentation for the life sciences industry. The $93,850.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order is for the provision of Formulatrix's proprietary crystallization equipment, which supports biomedical research efforts. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. Formulatrix has received numerous prime contract awards from various NIH institutes, as well as from the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), for the supply and maintenance of specialized laboratory equipment used in scientific research.