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

to AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION

biotechactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-09-30·LATEST ACTION2026-03-24·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75A50121F33005_7505_75A50120D00013_7505
Award description

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION FOR MCM EVALUATION

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

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In plain English

Storage and distribution of biological samples for evaluating medical countermeasures against biological threats.

Sub-sectors
mcm-evaluationbiological-sample-repositorypandemic-preparedness
Why this matters

Supports U.S. biodefense readiness by maintaining reference materials for testing vaccines and treatments against pathogens.

Supply-chain signal

Ensures continuity of critical biological reference materials for MCM developers and regulators; ATCC is a key node in the biodefense supply chain.

U.S.–China competition angle

Maintains U.S. capability to rapidly evaluate and deploy medical countermeasures independent of foreign biological repositories.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-30. Cost: $0.002927.

Period of performance
Start
2021-09-30
End
2028-09-26
Status
activein 819 days
Sources

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