Leveraging ancestry to jointly characterize genetic and environmental contributions to health disparities
Award Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 75N94020C00010
- Agency
-
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Awarded
- to Asrt, Inc.
- Set-aside
- 8(a) Sole Source
Opportunity facts
- Contract number
- 75N94020C00010 Federal contract award
- NAICS code
- 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- PSC
- Not on record
- Place of performance
- Smyrna GA 30080 USA
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This sole source 8(a) contract was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to ASRT, INC on September 25, 2020 for $3,739,516.50. The purpose is to procure bioinformatic support services and infrastructure for analyzing genetic and environmental data from large biobank cohorts to jointly characterize genetic and environmental contributions to racial and ethnic health disparities in complex diseases.
Notice text
It was awarded as a sole source contract in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (15 USC 637(a)(1)) and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 19.8, and the executed Partnership Agreement between the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Department of Health & Human Services.
The purpose of this contract is to procure bioinformatic support services and infrastructure required for the analysis of genetic and environmental data present in large biobank cohorts. This project combines the development of novel algorithms for genetic ancestry inference at biobank scale, with the re-purposing of quantitative genetic statistical methods and machine learning techniques for ancestry-informed analyses of biobank data, towards the joint interrogation of genetic and environmental contributions to racial and ethnic health disparities in complex common disease.
Awarded contract 75N94020C00010 to ASRT, INC for 3739516.50 on 2020-09-25.
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