NOI - Multi-dimensional sleep health and DNA methylation signatures

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking to award a firm fixed price purchase order to Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) for a 3-month service to continue and operationalize an existing project. The project involves retrieving previously collected blood samples from the BWH Biorepository, processing them into aliquots, and shipping them to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Laboratory of Neurogenetics for planned assays. The contractor will be responsible for preventative maintenance and on-demand repair services for parts and software, and will provide a trained laboratory technician and research assistant to perform specific tasks. Some key points about this opportunity include: • The project is a follow-on effort to prior research on population-based sleep health. • The contractor will retrieve 821 stored blood samples from the biorepository and process them into aliquots. • The contractor will package and ship the samples to the NIA Laboratory of Neurogenetics in compliance with biospecimen handling and shipping regulations. • The period of performance will be from June 1, 2026, through August 1, 2026. • The acquisition is not expected to exceed the simplified acquisition threshold.