This week's federal contracts, deals and bankruptcy filings involving Maryland businesses include the following:

FEDERAL

Advant-Edge Solutions of North East won $90,830 from the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical-waste disposal services. Place of performance will be in Fayetteville, N.C.

Albrecht Construction of Woodbine won $395,600 from the Department of Labor for three semi-permanent modular units.

Applied Research Associates of Elkridge won up to $2.92 million from the Department of Transportation for field calibration and validation activities.

BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services of Rockville won $9.09 million from the Navy for systems engineering and system integration agent engineering services.

B.I.G. Enterprises of Waldorf won $647,999 from the Army to build Morale, Welfare and Recreation cabins.

Clark/Balfour Beatty JV of Bethesda won $24.14 million from the Navy to design and build a parking garage.

Computer Sciences Corp. of Rockville won $350,000 from NASA to develop a data management system under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Dave Wheatley Enterprises of Aberdeen won $1.90 million from the Army for rocket and pyrotechnic launchers.

Dela Technology of Rockville won $41,580 from the Defense Logistics Agency for preformed packings.

Digital Management of Bethesda won up to $288 million from the Coast Guard for software engineering services.

Fairchild Controls of Frederick won $47,782 from the Defense Logistics Agency for system pressure regulating valves.

Henry M. Jackson Foundation of Rockville won $47.4 million from the Air Force for research on nano-bio interaction effects, bioinformatics, toxicology, predictive modeling, biomarker discovery and assay development, and molecular foundations.

HomeSource Real Estate Asset Services of Lanham won up to $3.35 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for single-family management and marketing services.

ILS Bio of Chestertown won $209,250 from the National Institutes of Health for clinically annotated biospecimens for cancer types under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

JBS International of Bethesda won $2.65 million from the National Institutes of Health for photographic, mapping, printing and publication services under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore won $329,100 from the Defense Department for geostrategic research and studies.

Kaydon Ring & Seal of Baltimore won from the Defense Logistics Agency $96,250 for aircraft metallic seals and $36,668 for bearing seal parts kits.

Lockheed Martin of Bethesda won $1.62 million from the Navy to maintain facilities.

Lockheed Martin Services of Gaithersburg won up to $21.32 million from the Army for hazard-detecting instruments and apparatus.

M.A. Associates of Laurel won up to $5 million from the Army for architectural and engineering services.

Matthews Media Group of Rockville won $8 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand awareness and treatment engagements in evidence-based cessation services under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Nurad Technologies of Baltimore won $27,114 from the Air Force for communication, detection and coherent radiation equipment and $25,628 from the Defense Logistics Agency for antennas.

Phoenix Trading of Rockville won $274,200 from the Defense Logistics Agency for axle assemblies.

Plaza Gallery of Salisbury won $16,565 from the General Services Administration to lease 850 square feet of office space.

SafeNet of Baltimore won $21,750 from the Department of State for information technology equipment under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Smiths Detection of Edgewood won $684,662 from the Army for instruments and laboratory equipment.

Sonco Worldwide of Bladensburg won $36,750 from the Air Force to rent 15,000 linear feet of event barricades and 360 linear feet of privacy barricades.

Wyle Laboratories Telemetry & Data Systems of California won $56,769 from NASA for information technology services.

Source: Targeted News Service

DEALS

Infoblox of Santa Clara, Calif., acquired privately held Netcordia of Annapolis. Both companies provide network services.

Grace Construction Products, an operating segment of W.R. Grace of Columbia, formed a joint venture, Grace Saudi Arabia LLC, with Khalid Ali Alturki & Sons of Saudi Arabia. The venture plans to open two manufacturing facilities, in Dammam and Jeddah, this year.

Montagu Newhall Associates of Owings Mills, a venture investment firm, changed its name to Greenspring Associates.

FleetPride of The Woodlands, Texas, an aftermarket distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts, opened its 10th location in Maryland, a new 9,000-square-foot facility in Salisbury.

PROPERTY

Chesapeake Lodging Trust of Annapolis is acquiring the 188-room Hilton Checkers Los Angeles and 153-room Courtyard Anaheim (Calif.) at Disneyland Resort for $71 million.

BANKRUPTCIES

Paradigm Development Solutions LLC

Pikesville

Case 10-19668

Filed 4/30/2010

Attorney

Ronald J. Drescher

410-484-9000

Assets: $1 million to $10 million

Debts: $1 million to $10 million

No. of creditors: 1-49

The Trust Estate of Lord & Whip PA

Baltimore

Case 10-20020

Filed 5/4/2010

Attorney

Marc E. Shach

410-559-9000

Assets: $100,001 to $500,000

Debts: $50,001 to $100,000

No. of creditors: 50-99

Birchfield Homes Inc.

Sykesville

Case 10-20213

Filed 5/6/2010

Attorney

Andrew C. Stone

410-876-3317

Assets: $100,001 to $500,000

Debts: $100,001 to $500,000

No. of creditors: 1-49

Source: U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt and Baltimore.