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$163,472,364

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC

biotechactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2019 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2019-09-26·LATEST ACTION2026-05-11·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75N91019F00139_7529_75N91019D00024_7529
Award description

MD NET

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In plain English

Ongoing operations and management of NIH research facilities and programs under the MD NET contract, with a 2026 obligation increment.

Sub-sectors
nih-researchmedical-research-infrastructurem&o-contract
Why this matters

Sustains critical NIH research infrastructure supporting biomedical discovery and vaccine/therapeutic development across multiple disease areas.

Supply-chain signal

Leidos provides backbone operational support for NIH labs; continuity ensures uninterrupted supply of research capacity and data management to academic and government biomedical researchers.

U.S.–China competition angle

NIH research infrastructure underpins U.S. biotech leadership in genomics, immunology, and drug discovery—areas where China is rapidly advancing.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-23. Cost: $0.003014.

Period of performance
Start
2019-09-26
End
2028-09-29
Status
activein 822 days
Sources

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