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 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 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) 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 $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 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 federal contract award, valued at $350,595.60, was issued by the Smithsonian Office of the Chief Information Officer to Picturae Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit organization, for the transcription of the Paleobiology Cenozoic Locality Register maintained by the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The contract is a delivery order under a larger vehicle, with a period of performance through March 21, 2025. No set-aside designation was...
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...
Fedscale Inc. was awarded a $671,840.80 firm fixed price delivery order by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area (USDA-ARS-FRIID) to digitize 670 laboratory notebooks containing approximately 200 double-sided pages each in support of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. As the prime contractor, Fedscale Inc. Division will perform the work itself under the contract to digitalize over...