This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Picturae Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to digitize 10 fragile bound herbarium volumes containing approximately 2,520 pages located at the USDA ARS Northeast Area in Washington, DC. The contract is valued at $10,989.20 and has a period of performance from September 19, 2024 to January 31, 2025. The award was made under a total small business set-aside...
This is a five-year, $747,000.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Picturae Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, to provide specimen label imaging services for the USDA's National Fungus Collections. The contract involves safely packing, transporting, freezing, and capturing high-resolution digital images of approximately 750,000 specimen labels attached to...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract to Imageworld Technologies LLC, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business, to provide imaging services for the Mycology & Nematology Genetic Diversity & Biology Lab (MNGDBL) fungus collection library. The contract, which has a potential value of $117,219.72, is a total small business set-aside. The services include imaging, optical character recognition, and...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Imageworld Technologies LLC, a minority woman-owned small business, for imaging, optical character recognition (OCR), and metadata services. The contract, valued at $188,557.50, supports the digitization and accessibility efforts for fragile and irreplaceable documents and specimen collections at the Mycology & Nematology Genetic Diversity &...
This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the Northeast Area division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Imageworld Technologies LLC, a minority woman-owned small business, for $129,273.81. The contract is for specimen label imaging, optical character recognition (OCR), and data services to support the digitization and accessibility of fragile and irreplaceable documents and specimen collections at the Mycology & Nematology...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Agricultural Library (NAL) awarded a $376,225.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Digital Science & Research Solutions Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, to provide a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for the Agricultural Research Data Catalog and Repository Service. This 5-year contract, which does not have a small business set-aside, will support the Ag Data Commons, a public catalog and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $97,504.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Phenospex B.V., a Netherlands-based biotechnology company, for the delivery of a PHENOSPEX MICROSCAN F600 imaging system with accessories. The contract has an ultimate completion date of March 1, 2025. This contract award was not associated with any set-aside program. The USDA-ARS in Houma, Louisiana originally solicited this requirement under a...
This is a $3,414,071.90 Firm Fixed Price delivery order contract awarded by the Northeast Area of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Fedscale Inc., a SBA Certified Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business, 8(a) Program Participant, Women-Owned Small Business, and HUBZone Firm. The contract is for the digitalization of records for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), as well as transition assistance services. The contract has...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Blue Raster L.L.C., a limited liability company, to update the existing Arboretum Botanical Explorer (ABE) software and mobile application. The contract has a ceiling value of $44,230 and a period of performance of one year from the date of award on September 24, 2024. The key deliverables include restoring image functionality, updating the application to...
This $68,236 firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS) to Macroscopic Solutions, LLC, a small business, for Canon EOS R5 Mirrorless Imaging Components, Lenses, and Accessories. The equipment is intended for use in the Systematic Entomology Lab at the USDA's Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) to support high-resolution imaging and 3D reconstruction of insect specimens. The original solicitation was a...