Delivery Order EPR71703-0004

This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order award to Diversigen, Inc., a microbiome analysis and sequencing company, by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB). The $134,284.00 contract is to evaluate methods for ascertaining microbial communities in oral and fecal samples to support NCI's cancer research. The work includes DNA...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development to R.I. Analytical Laboratories, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, for $11,365.00. The contract is for sample collection and analysis of fecal coliform and enterococci bacteria, with a period of performance through June 2, 2024. There is no set-aside designation for this award. As this is a stand-alone contract and not associated with a larger...

This is a $44,097.50 firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded to Microbiome Insights Inc., a for-profit organization specializing in DNA sequencing and analysis services. The contract, awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), is for amplicon sequencing and analysis to support various agricultural research initiatives. The work will be performed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Microbiome...

This federal contract award, with an ID of 12305B24P0022, was made by a civilian federal agency to Microbiome Insights Inc., a for-profit organization that provides DNA sequencing and analysis services. The $14,601.30 firm-fixed-price purchase order is for complete longitudinal three-point sample analysis for bacterial and fungal taxonomy. The work is to be performed in Canada, and the contract has a completion date of May 10, 2024. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Microbiome...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Cryptobiotix, a for-profit limited liability company, for batch production and generation of DNA samples from cultured gut microbiota. The $39,274.00 contract requires Cryptobiotix to recruit healthy human donors, process fresh fecal samples, culture the gut microbiota anaerobically, and extract high-quality DNA samples at specified time points. The DNA samples will be...

This is a firm-fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Clear Labs Inc., a for-profit manufacturer and genomic analysis company. The contract is for microbiome testing services covering 400 samples, including non-recurring engineering project costs and community analysis, comparative analysis, and reporting. This $28,300 contract supports USDA ARS's research on the persistence of foodborne pathogens in foods and food...

This is a $75,000 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to utilize state-of-the-art molecular methods to elucidate the microbial diversity present in spacecraft-associated environments. The project will employ a novel technology called Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-Activated Cell Sorting (PACS) to isolate and sequence the genomes of microbes from spacecraft samples, enabling NASA to rapidly detect,...

This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Research & Testing Laboratory Of The South Plains LLC, a veteran-owned limited liability company, for microbial diversity analysis services. The potential value of the contract is $5,500.00 and the period of performance runs through May 31, 2025. The contractor has previously provided genomic sequencing and bioinformatics services to other...

The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order to Biolog, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of microbiological testing equipment and materials, to provide a GEN III Omnilog Combo System for $105,000.00. This specialized analytical instrument allows researchers to simultaneously evaluate nearly 2,000 phenotypes of microbial cells in a single experiment, supporting the Molecular Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens Research Unit's work. The...

This is a $14,220.00 Firm Fixed Price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Phase Genomics Inc., a small business. The contract is for the vendor to construct libraries and sequence nine piglet fecal samples using their proprietary Proxi-Meta Hi-C technology. The data will then be processed using the Proxi-Meta bioinformatics workflow. This contract was awarded under a small business set-aside and supports ongoing...