Gardner Pharmacology LLC

Gardner Pharmacology LLC, a woman-owned small business sole proprietorship based in Vienna, Virginia, provides pharmacology and pharmacokinetic consulting services exclusively to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) as a prime contractor under sole-source purchase orders with no set-aside designation.

Gardner Pharmacology operates as a single-customer vendor. All eight awards in the source (100% of recent activity) fund NICHD's Contraception Research Branch, collectively valued at $305 thousand with full obligation already executed. The vendor has held a consistent sole-source relationship with NICHD since at least 2020, delivering pre-clinical and clinical pharmacology consultation, ethical and policy analysis, and regulatory compliance guidance for contraceptive research and product development. Representative work includes a $50 thousand purchase order issued August 1, 2026, for pharmacology and pharmacokinetic consulting with completion targeted July 31, 2027; a $50 thousand order from September 2025 covering pre-clinical pharmacology consultation and expert guidance on ethical and regulatory matters related to contraceptive research; and a $45 thousand order from September 2022 providing expertise in pharmacology and pharmacokinetic consulting to the Contraception Research Branch. All contracts are firm fixed-price with performance conducted in Bethesda, Maryland.

Activity volume has remained flat at roughly one award per year across the past five years, with no subcontract footprint. One award ($50 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing the vendor's full recompete exposure in that window. The vendor competes exclusively within its established sole-source relationship to NICHD and carries no parent contract vehicles, GWACs, or multi-agency platforms. Category concentration skews toward other scientific and technical consulting services and management/procurement support roles under PSC coding.