The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract to Aphios Corp, a minority-owned for-profit organization, for the development of "CRITICAL FLUID NANOSOMES FOR EFFECTIVE TARGETED DELIVERY AND MANUFACTURE OF SIRNA-BASED THERAPEUTICS." The firm-fixed-price contract has a potential value of $299,591.00 and a completion date of...
This is a $14,605,403.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc., a Boston-based biotechnology company. The contract is part of DARPA's ReVector program, which aims to develop methods to use human skin microbiomes to modulate chemical production in order to avoid mosquito attraction and feeding, thereby reducing the threat of mosquito-borne disease to U.S. military personnel. The original solicitation, with...
This federal contract award to SPT Labtech LIMITED, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer located in Great Britain, is for the delivery of a 5-position deck Mosquito HV Genomics system. The $127,970.00 purchase order was issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Pittsburgh. The Mosquito system is a specialized liquid handling and sample management instrument that supports high-throughput screening, genomics research, structural biology,...
The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded a $66,350 firm fixed price purchase order to Ozgene PTY LTD of Bethesda, Maryland. Under the contract, Ozgene will provide gene targeting vector services to NIH/NIAID in support of their biomedical research efforts from September 2023 through September 2024. No additional details were provided regarding the scope of work, though gene targeting vectors are commonly used tools in genetic engineering...
This firm fixed price delivery order awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to The Mitchell Group, Inc. doing business as Mitchell Group Inc. is for a COVID-19 entomology study in Mali to support the Lutter contre le paludisme au moyen de la lutte antivectorielle (Pop 9/24/2020-9/23/2021). The study will be conducted in Mali from September 22, 2020 through September 23, 2021 to help inform the...
This is a delivery order award under the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Preclinical Models of Infectious Diseases 2017-2024 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded this $725,584 cost-no-fee contract to Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division to develop a cryopreservation process for mosquito vectors of...
This federal contract award, issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provides $7,999,514.00 to Emory University to conduct research on the use of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in reducing arboviral infection in Brazil. The contract is a delivery order under the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEU) master contract, which supports medical research and development initiatives. The award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $64,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract to Sanaria Inc., a biotechnology company that specializes in malaria vaccine development. The contract is for the procurement of Sanaria's PfSPZ Reagent biological kits, which will be used for ongoing clinical trial experiments at the Laboratory of Immunogenetics (LIG) to study immune interactions with peripheral blood...
The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $9,352 purchase order to SPT Labtech Limited of Great Britain. The firm fixed price contract is for OTHER FUNCTIONS - SERVICE AGREEMENT FOR MOSQUITO LCP CRYSTALLIZATION ROBOT and calls for SPT Labtech to provide services related to a mosquito crystallization robot from April 26, 2016 through May 18, 2017 at their location in the United Kingdom. No major...
This federal contract award to Ozgene PTY LTD, an Australian company, was issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The $57,600 firm-fixed-price contract was for the generation of conditional gene knockout and knockin mouse models to support biomedical research. Ozgene, as the prime contractor, will provide gene targeting vector design and creation, mouse...