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Department of Health and Human Services·Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

to EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS CANADA INC

healthactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2019 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2019-09-30·LATEST ACTION2026-05-27·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75A50119C00075_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

BOTULISM ANTITOXIN

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Supplies botulism antitoxin for emergency preparedness and response under a contract that began in 2019.

Sub-sectors
botulism-antitoxinemergency-preparednessaspr-contract
Why this matters

Botulism antitoxin is a critical countermeasure for bioterrorism and natural outbreak response; this 2019 contract received a modification in April 2026.

Supply-chain signal

Emergent BioSolutions is a key domestic supplier of emergency biologics; sustained funding signals reliance on this vendor for strategic stockpile replenishment.

U.S.–China competition angle

Botulism antitoxin production is a domestic biodefense capability; maintaining U.S. manufacturing reduces dependence on foreign suppliers for critical medical countermeasures.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-19. Cost: $0.003075.

Period of performance
Start
2019-09-30
End
2027-03-30
Status
activein 273 days
Sources

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