By Ahmed Aboulenein and Robin Respaut

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a single-source contract for investigating the association between vaccines and autism prevalence, a government website posting showed.

The posting to the U.S. government’s official website for posting and managing federal contracting opportunities, SAM.gov, was made by the CDC Office of Acquisition Services and went up late on Thursday. Single-source contracts are those issued without a competitive bidding process.

“The vendor has (the) unique ability to link children to maternal cohorts using proprietary databases and de-identified data sets, enabling advanced statistical analyses within the project’s timeframe,” the pos

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