The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 has awarded a series of firm fixed price delivery orders to Biospyder Technologies, Inc. (Biospyder) for transcriptome sequencing services leveraging Biospyder's proprietary Tempo-Seq technology. These orders, valued at over $84,000 in total, provide the VA with access to Biospyder's RNA sequencing and bioinformatics capabilities to support the agency's biomedical research programs. Biospyder, a small business manufacturer headquartered in Carlsbad, California, will deliver Tempo-Seq kits, reagents, and sequencing runs on Illumina instruments at locations in Tucson, Arizona and Carlsbad. The services enable analysis of gene expression changes in murine models and other biological samples, furthering the VA's mission of caring for veterans. No set-asides were used for these awards, which have a period of performance through September 2025. Biospyder has also been awarded major IDIQ contracts by the Environmental Protection Agency and VA to provide advanced genomic analysis services to support research on environmental impacts and toxicology.
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