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) 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 firm fixed-price purchase order contract was awarded by the Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Imagex, Inc., a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business, for the digitization of scientific records. The contract has a ceiling value of $21,480.72 and a period of performance ending on March 31, 2022. No set-aside designation was used for this award. The awardee, Imagex, Inc., is a woman-owned small business...
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...
This is a $89,925.00 firm fixed price federal purchase order contract awarded to Infivium Solutions LLC, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged, veteran-owned, and DOT-certified disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) based in Hagerstown, Maryland. The contract is for scanning services with preparation, file naming, optical character recognition (OCR), and quality control. The contract has a completion date of September 11, 2025 and was awarded on April 12, 2024 by the Office of the Director, 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 $161,200.00 firm fixed price delivery order contract awarded by the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service to Archscan, LLC, a woman-owned small business. The contract is for document scanning and digitization services to support reduced office space and remote electronic access to working files. The contract was set aside for small businesses. Archscan, a woman-owned small business, is the prime contractor and has experience providing scanning, digitization,...
This is a firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Terzic Instruments LLC, a small business, for the provision of a confocal laser scanning inverted microscope. The contract was awarded on September 29, 2021 with a ceiling value of $245,144.89 and a completion date of January 31, 2022. The microscope will be delivered to the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) facility in Peoria, Illinois. This contract was awarded under a total...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $856,506 firm fixed price contract to Picturae Inc. to digitize approximately 800,000 herbarium specimens housed at the U.S. National Arboretum and develop a searchable website. Picturae will image the specimens onsite at a minimum resolution of 600 pixels per inch, transcribe label data, design the website, and manage digital assets over a two-year base period with four one-year options. The solicitation was set aside for...
This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Image Access, Inc., a manufacturer of academic and public library book scanning systems, for the procurement of a new Bookeye 5 V3 tabletop scanner system. The $14,933.00 contract has a total small business set-aside designation and an ultimate completion date of January 27, 2025. As the prime contractor, Image Access will provide and service the book digitization system directly to the USDA's...