The Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) contract ID H9224024G0015 was awarded by the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a defense agency, to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, a private research university. The contract is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) vehicle with a period of performance through May 8, 2034 and a ceiling value of $0.00. Under this BOA, Rice University is providing educational services and conducting research and...
The federal contract IDV award is a $1,000,000 Other Transaction (OT) Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), a private research university. The IDV supports the "Convergent Manufacturing of Smart Metal Structures with Embedded Sensing Capabilities" project, which aims to develop novel manufacturing techniques and embedded sensor technologies for smart metal structures. As an OT IDV,...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Rice University on September 29, 2022. With a potential value of $484,351, this IDV has no set-aside designations and aims to recover gallium, indium, and tantalum from electronic waste by combining the chloride process with ultrafast and energy-efficient flash Joule heating. The original solicitation sought innovative technologies to efficiently extract critical materials from electronic...
The key aspects of this federal contract IDV award are: The contract, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is an Other Transaction (OT) IDV with a ceiling value of $1,000,000. It is titled "FOUNDATION MODELS FOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (FOUNDSCI)" and is intended to support research and development in advanced scientific discovery methods. The prime contractor is the University of Illinois, a renowned public land-grant research university with extensive...
The federal contract IDV is a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) awarded by the Science and Technology Directorate, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to the University of Houston System, a Hispanic-serving institution of higher education. The BOA, valued at $84,000,000, has an ultimate completion date of August 17, 2026 and covers four thrust areas: explosives detection, mitigation and response, border security and immigration, critical infrastructure resilience, and...
This Other Transaction (OT) Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a defense agency, to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), a public research university. The $1,000,000.00 IDV is for a project titled "MATERIALS INVESTIGATION FOR NOVEL OPERATIONS IN SPACE" with a period of performance beginning on the award date of November 12, 2024. As a leading public research institution, UTD has extensive capabilities in...
This Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a defense agency, to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), a Hispanic-Serving Institution and Minority Institution. The $97 million, single-award contract is for AEROSPACE MATERIALS PROCESSING, PERFORMANCE AND CHARACTERIZATION (AMPPAC) and has an ultimate completion date of January 20, 2033. The first task order under this IDC is a $12 million Delivery Order for PHYSICS-BASED MODELING FOR...
The indefinite delivery contract (IDC) was awarded to Howard University, a private historically Black research institution located in Washington, D.C. The contract has a potential value of $8,215,009.00 and was set up without any set-asides. Through this IDC, Howard University is providing a range of research, education, and program management services to various federal agencies such as NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of...
This Other Transaction Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a public research university, for a total ceiling value of $1,000,000. The contract, which has a period of performance starting on May 20, 2024, is focused on the development of embedded, chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors for structural health monitoring of additively manufactured parts. As the prime...
This federal contract IDV was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Texas at Austin. The IDV is a $2,000,000 Other Transaction (OT) agreement focused on the development of embedded, chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors for structural health monitoring of additively manufactured parts. As the prime contractor, the University of Texas at Austin will leverage its expertise in aerospace engineering, materials science, and sensor...