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$182,319,448

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to HENSEL PHELPS CONSTRUCTION CO

healthexpiring · 16d· period of performance ends in 16 daysONGOING · MOD OF 2021 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2021-11-24·LATEST ACTION2026-04-27·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75N99022F00002_7529_75N99019D00016_7529
Award description

C103754 - VRC LABORATORY EXPANSION, BUILDING 40A NORTH TOWER, BETHESDA

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

Construction of a laboratory expansion at NIH's Bethesda campus, part of the Vaccine Research Center facility that began in 2021.

Sub-sectors
nih-research-infrastructureconstruction-m&olaboratory-expansion
Why this matters

Expands U.S. vaccine research capacity at a leading federal biomedical research institution during a period of heightened pandemic preparedness focus.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for specialized laboratory construction, HVAC systems, biosafety equipment, and scientific instrumentation suppliers serving federal research facilities.

U.S.–China competition angle

Strengthens domestic vaccine development infrastructure independent of foreign supply chains, critical for pandemic response autonomy.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-22. Cost: $0.002937.

Period of performance
Start
2021-11-24
End
2026-07-16
Status
expiring · 16din 16 days
Sources

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