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...
This federal contract award to Cosmosid, Inc., a for-profit organization specializing in genomic sequencing and bioinformatics analysis, was issued by the Southeast Area of the federal agency. The $9,999.54 firm fixed-price purchase order is for metagenomic bioinformatics analysis services, with a completion date of September 20, 2018. Cosmosid has also been awarded a $80,000 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), effective from April 2022 to...
This is a $754,585 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Cosmosid, Inc., a for-profit genomic sequencing and bioinformatics company. The contract is for software as a service to support metagenomic identification of microbial communities, with a period of performance through September 10, 2020. Cosmosid also holds a $80,000 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide cloud-based software...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service awarded a $56,300 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Cryptobiotix, a for-profit limited liability company, to provide DNA production setup and generation services. The contract requires the vendor to submit samples of DNA from cultures inoculated with fresh fecal samples subjected to food or food components to study the impact on human gut microbiota. This was a small business set-aside contract opportunity with a North...
This federal contract award, valued at $23,800.00, was issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Microbiome Insights Inc., a for-profit organization specializing in DNA sequencing and analysis services. The contract is for shallow shotgun sequencing, 16S amplicon sequencing, and associated analysis. No set-aside designation was used. Microbiome Insights Inc. has a history of securing prime federal contracts, primarily from civilian...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded a firm fixed price purchase order valued at forty-two thousand six hundred twenty-four dollars ($42,624) to Psomagen Inc. for Illumina Eukaryotic RNA sequencing services. Per the original solicitation, Psomagen will sequence 288 samples and deliver the results to the specified address in Potomac, Maryland by February 2024 in compliance with the Buy American Act and Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements. The contract has...
This is a $14,700 firm fixed price purchase order awarded to Psomagen Inc., a for-profit manufacturer, by the Northeast Area of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The contract is for the provision of RNA sample quality control, Illumina RNA library preparation, and NovaSeq 10B sequencing services for 140 pig intestine samples. This requirement was originally solicited as a 100% Small Business Set-Aside under NAICS code 541714 (Research and Development in Biotechnology). Psomagen, a subsidiary...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) awarded a $57,534.00 Firm Fixed Price contract to Government Scientific Source Inc., a small business distributor of laboratory products and equipment, for Enzymatic Methyl-Seq services including DNA extraction, library preparation, and sequencing of 106 tissue samples collected from cattle. This contract was awarded under a Total Small Business set-aside as a simplified acquisition under FAR Part 13. The period of...
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 is a delivery order awarded to Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. under the company's Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The $75,000 firm-fixed-price delivery order is for the provision of Pacific Biosciences' Sequel and Sequel II DNA/RNA sequencing platforms, associated consumables, and related services. This award is part of a larger $13.5 million IDIQ contract the company holds with the USDA Agricultural Research...