This $89,250.00 firm-fixed price purchase order was awarded to Cantata Bio LLC, a small business in Santa Cruz, California, by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The award is for Cantata Bio's CANTATA MICRO-C LIBRARY PREPARATION services, which involve genomic library preparation and sequencing capabilities applicable to biomedical research. This award does not have a set-aside designation. Cantata Bio has previously...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area awarded a $7,062.50 firm fixed price purchase order to Cantata Bio LLC of Santa Cruz, California. The contract is for OMNI-C LIBRARY PREP EIMERIA ACERVULINA and will be performed in Santa Cruz from August 28, 2023 through November 30, 2023. This small business set-aside award will provide products or services related to the USDA-ARS's research into Eimeria...
The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area awarded a $4,395 firm fixed price purchase order to CD Biosciences Inc., doing business as Creative Biomart, for RNASEQ library construction and sequencing of plum samples. The contract is being performed in East Yaphank, New York through November 2023. The award is set aside for total small businesses. As part of USDA-ARS's mission to develop new technologies...
The USDA Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area awarded a $13,850 firm fixed price purchase order contract to CD Biosciences Inc., doing business as Creative Biomart, for whole genome sequencing of 160 bacterial genomes to support the agency's agricultural research efforts. The sequencing work is to be performed at the prime contractor's facility in East Yaphank, New York, and is required to be completed between July 27, 2023 and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $21,760.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Seqmatic, LLC, a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business, to perform Omni-C analysis of eight alfalfa genomes for long-range mapping. The contract, which has a completion date of September 30, 2024, requires Seqmatic to construct Omni-C libraries, sequence each library to a target depth of 15X per haplotype, and deliver the results files electronically. This contract...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a $87,125.64 firm fixed price delivery order to Pacific Biosciences Of California, Inc. for COMP. SEQUEL II SRV CONTRACT, W/INSIGHT. The contract has a completion date of February 23, 2023 and was awarded on February 24, 2022. To be performed in Stoneville, Mississippi, the delivery order is associated with the larger USDA ARS research programs and will provide Sequel II...
The Department of Agriculture Office of the Chief Information Officer awarded a $12,000 firm fixed price purchase order to LC Sciences, LLC of Houston, Texas. The contract calls for LC Sciences to sequence 10 sets of premade libraries for ultra-conserved elements from approximately 1,000 samples. The period of performance is through September 30, 2025. The award is set aside for total small businesses. LC Sciences will deliver genomic sequencing services to support the Department's...
This $85,705.93 federal contract award was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., a small business manufacturer of genomic sequencing systems and consumables. The contract is for the delivery of SMRT and Sequel II sequencing consumables, including reagent kits, SMRT cell trays, and template preparation kits, to USDA research facilities in Stoneville, Mississippi and Clay Center, Nebraska. The contract...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), awarded a $100,000.00 firm fixed-price purchase order to Cosmosid, Inc., a small business contractor, for next-generation sequencing services. The contract, which has a completion date of July 21, 2023, requires Cosmosid to extract DNA and perform shotgun sequencing on hundreds of complex microbial samples. The sequencing data will be analyzed to identify the sample contents at the strain level. This contract is...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a $28,215 firm fixed price delivery order to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. to provide Sequel II Sequencing Kits and Smart Cell 8M Trays. The products will support agricultural research being conducted by ARS at its Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery location in West Menlo Park, California. No set-aside designation was used for this contract award to supply sequencing materials for the agency's...