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$100,000,000

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

to LUMINARY LABS LLC

biotechactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2023 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2023-09-28·LATEST ACTION2026-02-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75A50123C00059_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

BARDA OTHER TRANSACTION PRIZE VEHICLE

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

BARDA prize vehicle to incentivize development of medical countermeasures and biodefense solutions through competitive awards.

Sub-sectors
vaccine-developmentpandemic-preparednessother-transaction-authority
Why this matters

BARDA's Other Transaction Authority enables rapid, flexible contracting for critical medical countermeasures outside traditional procurement constraints during public health emergencies.

Supply-chain signal

Large prize award signals demand for biotech manufacturing scale-up and supply chain readiness for pandemic or biodefense-related therapeutics and vaccines.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. investment in domestic biotech innovation and manufacturing resilience to reduce dependence on foreign supply chains for critical medical countermeasures.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002254.

Period of performance
Start
2023-09-28
End
2029-09-30
Status
activein 1232 days
Sources

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