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Contract Spotlight: A $23.5 million NIH research resources contract action went to American Type Culture Collection on October 15
AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION received a $23,510,310.00 contract action from the National Institutes of Health on October 15, 2026 for the Biological and Emerging Infections Research Resources Program.
Key takeaways
- AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION received $23,510,310.00 from the Department of Health and Human Services on October 15, 2026, award 75N93024C00001.
- The awarding sub agency is the National Institutes of Health, and the record describes the work as the Biological and Emerging Infections Research Resources Program, abbreviated BEI-RRP in the record.
- Health and Human Services obligated $39,473,220.85 across 192 transactions from October 9 to 15, 2026, and this single action was the largest HHS action in that week.
Research materials, funded as a federal resource
The name in the record is a supplier of biological materials. The work behind it is the part most contract lists skip. The record ties this definitive contract to a research resources program for biological and emerging infections, the kind of shared resource that lets laboratories work with reference materials rather than each building the same collection on its own. This action, 75N93024C00001, is the net federal action obligation for this single transaction dated October 15, 2026, not a statement of the total value of the program over its full life.
A definitive contract is a stand alone contract, distinct from a delivery order placed against an existing contract vehicle. That distinction is in the award type in the record, and it helps readers compare actions across the same week without mixing two different funding mechanics.
Where it sits in the HHS week
Health and Human Services obligated $39,473,220.85 across 192 transactions in the October 9 to 15 window, per USAspending records. Behind this action came an $18,673,559.31 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services delivery order to PERATON INC. on October 13 for enrollment and premium billing systems support. One research resources action accounted for more than half of the HHS contract week.
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Data vintage: USAspending contract transactions with action dates from October 9 to 15, 2026, compiled in the Ledger contractors file dated October 19, 2026. Figures are net federal action obligation per transaction. Recipient name is shown in the article headline in title case and in the body exactly as AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION as listed in the source record.
Sources
1. USAspending.gov award record for AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION, award 75N93024C00001: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_75N93024C00001_7529_-NONE-_-NONE-/
2. U.S. Department of the Treasury, Fiscal Data, Debt to the Penny dataset: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/debt-to-the-penny
Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement, September 28, 2026; Debt to the Penny.
Sources and methodology
Methodology. Daily cash figures are from the U.S. Treasury’s Daily Treasury Statement (DTS) for September 28, 2026, the government’s official daily cash-flow report. The DTS records money actually moving in and out of Treasury accounts; it is not the same as the budget deficit, which is measured monthly on an accrual-adjusted basis.
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Daily Treasury Statement – operating cash balance, September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Debt to the Penny – September 28, 2026 (fiscaldata.treasury.gov)
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