This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration to Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cells. The $26,680 contract is to provide specialized cell cultures, including cardiomyocytes, neurons, astrocytes, and hepatocytes, to support the FDA's active research program. The award has no set-aside designation and is a sole-source award,...
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded a $12,925.85 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Biowest USA Inc., a for-profit organization, for the procurement of fetal bovine serum. The serum will be used to support a T-cell activation process study in normal and pathological states. This purchase order, which does not have a set-aside designation, has a performance period ending on December 9,...
Synthego Corporation will deliver customized human cell lines to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) under a $22,650 firm fixed price purchase order. Specifically, Synthego will supply vials of immortalized THP-1 cells containing a single nucleotide variant or codon change in the protein coding sequence of an unspecified chromosome. The estimated turnaround time is 17 weeks for this small cell clone order placed under NIAMS' research support...
The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) awarded a $209,265.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer, for the delivery of iCell and MyCell induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived differentiated cells. This non-competitive acquisition supports ongoing HEAL-related projects at NCATS' Stem Cell Translation Laboratory, which focus...
This federal contract, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, supports the production of human dermal fibroblast master cell banks and decellularized tissue tubes. The contract was awarded to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, and has a potential value of $662,347.46. The contract is a delivery order under the larger Production Assistance for Cellular Therapies -...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc., a manufacturer of biologically relevant human cells derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The order includes 50 units of the iCell Astrocytes Kit 01434, 20 units of the iCell DopaNeurons Kit 01279, 10 units of the iCell DopaNeurons Kit 01279, and 40 units of...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded a $98,725.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc. (FCDI), a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of biologically relevant human cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The contract is for the purchase of cardiomyocytes, which are heart muscle cells, and does not have a set-aside designation. FCDI is a key supplier of specialized cell products, particularly to the Department of Health and Human...
The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded a $12,622.50 firm fixed price purchase order to Stemcell Technologies Inc. for cell culture medium under catalog number 2201103. Stemcell Technologies, whose parent company is also Stemcell Technologies, will deliver the requested products from its location in Kent, Washington by January 31, 2024 to support the NIH/NIAID's research efforts. No subcontractors or...
The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences awarded a $118,665 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer, for the supply of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived human neurons and astrocytes. This award was made on a non-competitive basis to support the Antiviral Program for Pandemics' research into antivirals for neurotropic viruses,...
This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to Life Technologies Corporation for $35,692.80. The contract calls for Life Technologies to deliver 80 units of heat inactivated fetal bovine serum with lot number 2661794P to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The serum will support ongoing cell culture work and clinical research being performed by the Laboratory of Immunoregulation's HIV...