Physicians Preferred Laboratory, LTD. (PPL) was awarded a single-award indefinite delivery contract by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to provide full-service COVID-19 testing services based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing. The contract has a potential value of $662,400 over a five-year period of performance from September 2021 to September 2026. Under the contract, PPL will offer PCR-based COVID-19 testing services to the agency through task...
The U.S. Defense Health Agency has awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Beckman Coulter, Inc. for microbiology cost-per-reportable-result testing services. The $702,494.50 BPA has a period of performance from October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2029 and was awarded in response to a solicitation issued by the Army Medical Command. The contract aims to procure commercial microbiology testing services, including the ability to properly identify certain organisms and test for...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Mriglobal, also doing business as Midwest Research Institute, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization. The BPA, valued at up to $7,847,794, covers the provision of bacterial panels and challenger panels to support the CDC's infectious disease monitoring and prevention programs. Under the BPA, the CDC has issued two task orders to Mriglobal...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VISN 22) awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Biomerieux Inc. for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) diagnostic services. The BPA, valued up to $2,273,824.38, has a base year with two one-year option periods, and will provide PCR testing capabilities to VA healthcare facilities within VISN 22, which covers Southern California and Southern Nevada. Biomerieux Inc., a global leader in in vitro...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration awarded an indefinite delivery contract to Biomerieux Inc. to provide blood culture contamination prevention, reduction, and recovery (CPRR) products and services. Multiple delivery orders were subsequently issued against the IDV with a combined value of approximately $400,000 to furnish these supplies and diagnostic support services to various VHA facilities. The prime contractor Biomerieux Inc. was tasked to deliver blood...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract to American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a nonprofit organization that serves as a biological resource center. The contract, valued at $980,273.35, is for DNA storage and plating services in support of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) program. Under this IDV, ATCC has received multiple firm fixed-price delivery orders from the CDC Pittsburgh...
This Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) was awarded by the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to Biomerieux Inc. through its Biomerieux, Inc. division. The contract, with a ceiling value of $600,000, is for the provision of microbiology reagents as required by the 59th Medical Wing for the period of October 1, 2024 to April 30, 2026. Biomerieux Inc. is a global leader in in vitro diagnostics, specializing in microbiological testing solutions. The company's core offerings include automated microbial...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 awarded a Blanket Purchase Agreement to Cepheid for real-time polymerase chain reaction molecular microbiology testing services. The testing is for the detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on a cost-per-test basis. Under subsequent calls against the BPA, Cepheid has provided these services from various places of performance including Sunnyvale, CA, Tucson, AZ, and San...
The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Qiagen, LLC, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer, to provide ONE STEP RT PCR KIT. The $49.2 million BPA has a period of performance through December 31, 2021. Qiagen, a provider of sample and assay technologies for molecular diagnostics, applied testing, pharma, and academia, has a history of delivering a range of products and services to...
The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), doing business as Atcc, was awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to provide in vitro assessments of antimicrobial activity. The multiple award contract has a potential value of $30 million to be delivered through January 2026 in support of the National Institutes of Health's infectious disease research programs. Under the first delivery order valued at $2,500, Atcc...