Purchase Order VA688D91086

This firm fixed price purchase order was awarded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the University of Bristol, doing business as Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, to provide 1100 hours of statistical work. The solicitation sought these services to analyze data from the long-running Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children cohort linked to fatty acid and trace metal analyses provided by NIH. Specifically, the work...

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded a $3,865,703.40 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract to Mdrc, a nonprofit research organization, to conduct the "Evaluating Programs and Strategies to Accelerate School Improvement" study. This national study aims to determine how digital math products can effectively complement core teacher-led instruction to accelerate math learning. Mdrc is the prime contractor and has subcontracted with...

This $13,364,740 federal contract was awarded by the Department of Education's Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development to Mathematica Inc., a research and data analytics consultancy, to conduct a two-component study. The first component involves collecting implementation information about the Teacher and School Leader Incentive (TSL) Fund program's FY2017 grants. The second component is an impact evaluation of a core strategy common among the FY2017 TSL grants. The contractor...

This $76,241,771 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to conduct the 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS 2020). The NPSAS collects data to describe how students and families finance postsecondary education and students' persistence, attainment, and workforce outcomes, as required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. RTI, a non-profit research organization, has subcontracted...

The University of Rochester received a firm fixed price purchase order contract from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), part of the Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to conduct a longitudinal study on the predictive value of blood-based brain biomarkers for concussion recovery. The $124,444.41 contract has a period of performance through July 17, 2024. The study will take place in Monroe County, New York and analyze samples...

This is a definitive contract awarded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Northwestern University, a private research university, for a study on the influence of brand principle display panels (PDPs) on the safe consumer use of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The $286,937 firm fixed-price contract has a performance period ending on December 31, 2018. The study involves conducting mixed-methods research to understand how brand image, familiarity, and display panel labeling impact...

This is a $4,847,787 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR), a non-profit research organization. The contract is for a feasibility study to inform a future impact evaluation of policy and practice under Title III, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The study involves data collection, analysis, and...

The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10 awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at one hundred five thousand thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($105,013.75) to Case Western Reserve University Office Of Research Administration Division for a clinical study to determine the relative effectiveness of two therapies in facilitating recovery of arm and hand function after stroke. The study will also utilize functional...

This federal contract award is for a study titled "TAS::75 0843::TAS ACTION TO CONTROL CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN DIABETES", with a total ceiling value of $877,743.52. The prime contractor is Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS), a leading academic medical center that frequently partners with the federal government on biomedical research, medical training, and clinical services contracts and grants. The contract has no set-aside designation and was awarded by the National...

This is a $189,216,311.83 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct data collection for multiple national postsecondary education studies, including the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B), and Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS). The contract supports IES's role in providing national education statistics...